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If there is a person who knows the artist and the person in depth Giannis Poulopouloshe is none other than him Mimi plessa. He is the composer who trusted him from the first moment and with his eyes closed, the one who wrote the most for his voice and his greatest hits, the one with whom he lived the enormous success of the golden age of Greek cinema and the mythical “Street”, his artistic-spiritual father. His musical paths have paralleled, for many years, his karmic relationship, his unique partner. It is no accident that together they “gave birth” to some of the most popular and commercial songs of all time.
All these days Mimis Plessas, deeply moved by the loss of the man with whom she shared so much and so much, remained silent. Let her emotional songs speak for her. The family insisted on not attending the funeral even though he really wanted to go. Although today opens his heart to protothema.gr and reviews the book of his personal memories to share with us unknown incidents of his many years of artistic coexistence with the great singer in whose rare voice he discovered the ideal channel of communication of his music with the public.
What most people know is that the inaugural meeting of the composer with the singer took place in 1967 in the movie “The seas are the beads” where the songs “I cried yesterday” were heard for the first time, “Tonight someone se will lose “and” Behind the window “. What they don’t know, however, are the details of their first meeting, which was completely … cinematic.
«I heard his unique voice for the first time, in Agios Ierotheos, in Peristeri, in a building where he worked then. I saw a small, gloomy and serious young man who had an incredible complexion. I immediately felt that this voice, along with my repertoire, can do wonders. And they confirmed me because some of the songs we did together broke all records and continue to this day, so many years later to remain unsurpassed.Mimis Plessas remembers.
Automatically our mind goes to the first scene of the movie “Diplopenies” with Dimitris Papamichael singing “Vourkomena Eyes” by Xarchakos and the conductor of an orchestra, impressed by his voice, proposes that he become a singer. And we realize that, finally, there are some scenes from movies, they have been “reproduced” in real life!
From that first moment, Mimis Plessas was sure of Giannis Poulopoulos. No rehearsals, recordings, third party opinions were needed: “I was absolutely sure that this voice can uniquely interpret my entire repertoire.He confesses us.
Very soon, of course, it will turn out that his instincts were absolutely correct, as the first songs he made with Poulopoulos became hits almost immediately. The same happened with his second collaboration on the big screen, a year later, for the needs of the film “A lady in Bouzouki”. Giannis Poulopoulos appears in some scenes singing “Don’t talk to the boy” and “Tonight the sky cries” and enchants the crowd. The triumph, however, will come through the movie “Mermaids and Mages” with the songs “I will drink the moon tonight” and “Kamaroula a stalia” to take off the popularity of the singer.
Giannis Poulopoulos is now the new great star of the Greek song of the time. In the clubs where he appears, he becomes inseparable and his photos appear in most of the girls’ rooms. The expressions of admiration he received, mainly from the female gender, were unprecedented.
A similar incident is revealed to us by Mimis Plessas. «One night I would go from his neighborhood to Peristeri, I would take him on a motorcycle that he had then and we would go to “Orpheus”, the mythical summer cinema in the New World. The queues used to be huge. However, When Poulopoulos appeared, most of the women left their tails, ran him over, took out the jewels they were wearing and gave them to them, put them in their pockets, in their hands, to express their love and admiration. John, on the other hand, bewildered, left them and left. He was a very closed character, he did not enjoy these expressions of admiration, on the contrary, he felt uncomfortable».
This closed character, this modest man, however, would become the protagonist of the most commercial Greek album of all time. His renditions of the songs from the legendary “Dromos”, with music by Mimi Plessa and lyrics by Lefteris Papadopoulos, indelibly sealed an era and remain unmatched to this day.
The unprecedented horror that Mimis Plessas felt when she first heard Poulopoulos’s voice in the building of Peristeri was no accident. At the same time he witnessed and announced the birth of a historic musical collaboration that, as the composer characteristically emphasizes “could not have happened».
