
Nikos Portokaloglou
Sound
Biography
Nikos Portokaloglou (born 30 December 1957) is a Greek singer, songwriter and lyricist. He started his career in 1980, when he founded the music band Fatme. The first album of the band released in 1982 under the title Fatme. The band had great success and released six albums. Some of the most successful album of that period are Taxidi and Vgenoume apo to tunnel. Since 1990, he started a solo career and he continues until now.[2] From this period, notable album are Brazilero, Ta Karavia mou Kaio and Dipsa. He has written movies soundtracks. Some of them was for the movies Akropol, Valkanizater and Brazilero. In 2002 he won 3 Arion awards in categories best song, best entechno album and best movie soundtrack.He has cooperated with important Greek singer such as Haris Alexiou, Melina Kana, Eleftheria Arvanitaki and others.
Known For

Music show with special guests!
Music Box

When four siblings, Alexandros, Konstantinos, Natalia and Marianna lose their parents and learn that they will not inherit anything, as their father was in debt, they are forced to work, leaving behind the luxurious life they had. At the same time, Alexandros falls in love with Elli in Paxos, who is on vacation, his brother's girlfriend and later wife, while Natalia and Marianna experience love in the person of a bisexual and a married man respectively, without knowing the truth of course. Their kind-hearted and unfortunately paralyzed grandfather tries to find a solution to their problems.
Take Care Of Me

Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
Balkanisateur

Holy Week in Pelion. Two friendly Athenians couples find in their yard corpse of a stranger. They try to avoid the charge of murder by locals, while in the whole fuss becoming uncovered secrets that will change the lives of everyone.
Parees

1950s Athens. Prince, a self-made impresario and the owner of the "Acropole" review theater, fires one of his leading ladies when she shows up drunk on opening night. In order to replace her, he turns to Lakis Loizos, an expert at comic female roles and an ex-wonder-child of movies, who now runs an agency for extras. At first, Lakis is surprised by the prince's proposal, but finally decides to try his luck on the stage of the legendary theater.
Acropol

This special six-episode tribute focuses on the discography of Dionysis Savvopoulos, presenting ten of his emblematic albums - a turning point in Greek music. Six total "eras" of musical creation and history. In this documentary, which was to be the last legacy of Dionysis Savvopoulos, he himself tells stories that marked his life and the lives of everyone, from 1965, when he released his first album, to the present day, while for the last time he sings, with his guitar and unique voice, songs that we loved from his discography. In his unique way - the one that sweetly mixes myth with reality - he talks about the "lives" he lived, the people he met, his songs that were loved and left their indelible mark over time. The visual part, is by Alexis Kyritsopoulos, a companion and friend of Savvopoulos from the beginning, with works that he designed especially for this particular tribute, which also come to life through animation.
Savvopoulos Long Play

Vasilis Arvanitakis after spending the E.U money for buying a poor Brazilian Football player, must face the two members of the E.U who will come to check how and where the money is spent...
Brazilero

Jasim and Alsaleh are underage refugees in a Greek prison. Coming from Syria and Iraq, they were arrested and accused of smuggling illegal immigrants. With unique access in the juvenile prison and court room, the film follows the two friends closely while in custody, during the trial and after the verdict, through a narrative of suspense which reveals how youngsters are forced to transport migrants across the border to Greece while the smugglers stay behind and continue their job uninterrupted. If Jasim and Alsaleh are found guilty, they will face extremely long prison sentences. Phone conversations between the imprisoned young boys and their mothers at their war-stricken countries accentuate the double enclosure that these families experience. No one knows how and when their long run will end.
The Longest Run

On a day when downtown Athens is experiencing yet another ordinary upheaval, young lawyer Antonis Spetsiotis is celebrating his birthday. However, his birthday will unfold in a completely unexpected way, taking him from the courts of Evelpidon to glamorous cafés and dark parking lots on the National Road, from his tidy bachelor pad in Lycabettus to farmhouses in Chalkoutsi and luxurious villas in Aliartos – and will end unpredictably at dawn in Athens.
Where We Live

Giannis is a subversive young man who rebels against any social institution or authority. Unemployed by conviction, he cohabits with his German friend Ilze, who supports him, helps his arrogant uncle , a fallen aristocrat, with his drug smuggling, and becomes friends with a Pontian Turk, Mustapha. The latter has entered Greece illegally and follows Giannis to Athens, hoping to find his Greek grandmother, who is none other than Giannis' grandmother as well. Mustapha steals the hearty of Ilze, whom he entertains with tales of his exploits, but the uncle turns them over to the police, and so they are truly in a tight squeeze. They get out of doing time, despite it all, and leave for Turkey, but they stray into Albania, where they are arrested and sentenced to manual labor.