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Aspasia Papadaki, First Female Cretan Lyra Player, Dies at 94
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Pioneering Cretan lyra musician Aspasia Papadaki passes away
Aspasia Papadaki, regarded as the first female lyra player of Crete, has died aged 94. Born in 1932 into a family with a strong musical tradition, Papadaki built her first lyra at the age of 14 and began performing at a time when widespread prejudice held that the instrument was only for men. She made her first recording in 1962 with the song Paraxeno Pouli and went on to perform widely in Greece and overseas alongside her brother Pavlos, who a…
The news of the death of Aspasia Papadaki on Monday evening at the age of 94 spread sadness across Crete.
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