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Δόμνα Σαμίου {Domna Samiou} (1928-2012) was a Greek musicologist, educator, and singer. Samiou's mother had fled to Greece from Turkey in 1922, her husband having been taken prisoner of war; each thought the other dead, but they were reunited after he was released in 1924. Domna Samiou was born in a refugee camp in Kesariani, Athens. Despite their deep poverty, the family used to sing around the stove on winter nights. Having been brought up with the music known as Smyrneika or Smyrniotika, a cosmopolitan music from Constantinople...read more