Boris Voutsinos: music and MUSICIANS at the Poseidon Half Marathon

Born August 1961 in Vienna (Austria). Both parents were young Opera singers at that time.

After his brother's birth in 1962 and due to his father's business trips, the family settles in several german cities.

In 1972 he begins to torture his father's innocent guitar and continues doing so on a few classical guitar tutors after 1976, when the family moves to their homeland Greece.

Fragments of childhood memories of gospel singing in german elementary schools and accidental encouners with street musicians while travelling throughout Europe (following his father's concert schedule on school holidays) must have contributed to his falling in love with the Blues at age 17,which made him switch to acoustic guitar.

From 1980 he expands his skills in singing as well as playing harmonica, mandolin, banjo, kazoo, (rattle)spoons and piano. "It felt like home when I sang, played and listened to the Blues.

I tried to learn more and more of, about and from it, with ears and eyes wide open, with the help of a few friends and a lot of sheer luck.

I think I have achieved something finally, slowly but steadily."

Starting out as a short time member of the "Lost Wandering Blues Band", a britrish-american band playing on the ice - cold streets of Zurich(Switzerland) in winter 1980, Boris played in several Athens(Greece)-based bands (The Clique 1 to 3, Mystery Train, Blues Trick, Blues Duo, Drunk Trunk, ...), with Manolis Angelakis, Yannis Monos, Dimitris Ioannou, Christos Polydoros and Mickey Pantelous and others. Between bands he returns to the one man street band state, in which he sings, plays 6- or 12-string guitar, harmoinica and/or kazoo simultaneously, backed up by a foot - tapped and pedalled steamer trunk, fuel tank and tin can percussion kit, unless the weather really sucks and he has to roll the whole thing into a warm and dry place…

 

     

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