Her farewells, with a social media post. Kostas Karousakis was a singer who made successes in the 70s and 80s. Eleni Karousaki lives one of the hardest days of her life, as her father died in the morning. Kostas Karousakis was also a singer and businessman. The man who supported and essentially paved the way for his daughter to fulfill her own professional dreams. In recent years he was facing serious health problems and was hospitalized. Costas Karousakis had left his own imprint on the folk song, with songs made successful decades ago. He was a songwriter, but also a businessman, with his own nightclub, who for years had a successful course. His name had been associated with the case of Nikos Koemtzis, who had shaken the Greek judicial chronicles in the 1970s. And that’s because he was the singer who was on the dance floor of the Athens Fairy Center in Kipseli, when on Saturday, February 24, 1973, Nikos Koemtzis went with his company and his brother Demosthenes to have fun. That night, three people will fall dead and seven others will be wounded. The unpleasant news was made known by the singer herself who posted a very beautiful shared photograph of them and wrote on the caption: “Good heaven, Father. Fighter to the end! Costas Karousakis had interred in the folk song in the 1970s and 1980s and recently had serious health problems. He left his last breath today at the age of 81. Kostas Karousakis was born in Chios and was a singer, songwriter and was a businessman of his own nightclub. He had worked with the greatest names of the artistic firmament and everyone respected him for his artistic course. In 1974 he had opened his own nightclub and many folk singers and singers of the time and many other artists who were then at the beginning of their career. Among them Rena Violanti, Antypas, Katerina Stanissi, Naya Troni, Pitsa Papadopoulou, Kiki Asimakopoulou, Christina Alexopoulou, Marina Vlahaki, Kostas Kollias, Spyros Donaxas, the ballet of Errica Broyer, Teris Chrysos, Angela Demetriou and many others… His daughter, Helen early on followed his footsteps in the song, choosing a more light genre of music. Helen Karousaki met in turn success in the 1990s and 00s. She had a very close relationship with her father and of course his loss has devastated her.
Kostas Karousakis died, the singer who was on stage in the murder of Nikos Koemtzis
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