His songs have been performed by artists such as Grigoris Bithikotsis, Vicky Moscholiou, Manolis Mitsias, Dimitra Galani
Dimos Moutsis was born in Piraeus and began studying at the Athens Conservatory from the age of 7. At the age of 20-21 he finished his musical studies winning the first prize as a violin soloist.
Somewhere in the mid-60s, he met Nikos Gatsos and Manos Hadjidakis, in a café-pastry shop that was an old hangout for artists in Athens, where they both frequented.
In 1967, Nikos Gatsos started to give his lyrics to Moutsis and that’s how he wrote his first songs. Moutsi’s first song was “Vrechei o Theos”.
He had written the music first and politely asked Gatso if he wanted to put the lyrics, which he did. This song was performed by Stamatis Kokotas.
The collaboration between Gatsu and Moutsi continued with songs such as “Don’t knock on my door at midnight”, “Piraeus” with the same performer, “I saw you in my eyes” with Vicky Moscholiou. In 1969 with “Tomorrow once more” performed by Grigoris Bithikotsis, “With a complaint” with Bithikotsis but also the debutant Manolis Mitsias (the first performance of the song was by Mitsias in the movie “A dude in the salons”).
In 1970, Manos Hadjidakis commissioned Moutsis to take care of the orchestration and musical direction of his songs on the “Return” album. All in lyrics by Nikos Gatsos and performed by Grigoris Bithikotsis and the debutante Dimitra Galani.
This album included Hadjidaki’s songs “Speak to me”, “Ivory boat”, “Today’s bitterness”, with arrangements by Moutsis. At the same time, Moutsis continues to write hits such as “These hands” (lyrics by Lefteris Papadopoulos) and “In Elefsina once” (lyrics by Vassilis Andreopoulos) performed by Mitsias.
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