Leo Leandros

Leo Leandros real name: Λέανδρος Παπαθανασίου ( Leandros Papathanassiou ), born August 23, 1926 in Astacus, Aetolia - Acarnania (Greece ) is a Greek composer, singer, songwriter and music producer. He is the father of Vicky Leandros.

Life

Leo Leandros was in the 1950s, a successful singer in his home country. Then he came to Germany and was also here with pop -known, for the first time in 1957 with his version of Banana Boat Song, who came in the top 20 in the singles charts. In 1960, he had reached his greatest success Mustafa, the space 2. He also founded the ensemble The Five Tops, which in 1965 with the German version of Rag Doll scored a Top 10 hit. Other members were Günter Kallmann, Bernd Golonski, Sigurd Hilkenbach and Karl -Heinz Welbers. In 1963 he took part with the title Piccolina to the German Schlager Festival in Baden -Baden, finishing in seventh place.

From the mid- 1960s he devoted himself to the career of his daughter Vicky, for which he wrote the music for almost all successful ventures, in the years 1965-1972 under the pseudonym Mario Panas. Under this pseudonym he also wrote together with Klaus Munro the title Après toi, the Euro Vision Song Contest 1972 won with Vicky Leandros for Luxembourg. Only from Vicky's 1973 album erschienenem your friends my he drew with his well-known name.

Known titles

Solo

• Come Prima (1958 )
• All the girls want to kiss (1959 )
• Mustafa (1960 )
• The favorite of all (1963 )
• If the Bouzoukis sound (1965 )

The Five Tops

• Rag Doll ( 1965)
• Just wait for happiness (1965 )
• Ask but only your heart (1966 )
• Your heart is cold as ice ( 1966) ( Dt.Version of "California Dreaming" )
• Belief in Life ( 1968) ( Dt.Version of "Suddenly you love me" )