{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2020}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Maria Dimitriadi | image = | background = solo_singer | birth_name = | alias = | birth_place = Athens, Greece | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1950|4|11}} | death_place = Athens, Greece | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2009|1|6|1950|4|11}} | origin = | instrument = Vocals | genre = | occupation = Singer | years_active = 1969–2001 | label = | associated_acts = Aphrodite Manou, Stavros Xarhakos, Mikis Theodorakis, Kostas Grigoréas, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Giannis Markopoulos, Manos Hadjidakis | website = }} '''Maria Dimitriadi''' ({{langx|el|Μαρία Δημητριάδη}}; 11 April 1950<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://rateyourmusic.com/artist/%CE%BC%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1_%CE%B4%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%B1%CE%B4%CE%B7|title=Μαρία Δημητριάδη discography - RYM/Sonemic}}</ref> – 6 January 2009), was a Greek singer. She was one of the most renowned performers of the songs of Mikis Theodorakis and Thanos Mikroutsikos.<ref name="enet">{{cite web |url=http://www.enet.gr/online/online_text/c=113,id=7668492 |script-title=el:Ελευθεροτυπία – Ονειρο που φεύγει η ζωή |trans-title=Reuters – Dream leaving life |work=Eleftherotypia |language=Greek |date=8 January 2009 |accessdate=12 November 2009}}</ref><ref name="indy">{{cite web |url=http://indy.gr/newswire/pethane-smera-i-maria-dimitriadi |script-title=el:Πέθανε σήμερα η Μαρία Δημητριάδη |publisher=indy.gr |language=Greek |trans-title=Maria Dimitriadi Died Today |date=8 January 2009 |accessdate=12 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130217195654/http://indy.gr/newswire/pethane-smera-i-maria-dimitriadi |archivedate=17 February 2013 }}</ref> Dimitiradi primarily connected with political left-wing songs during the Junta and Metapolitefsi era in Greece, but she also experimented with other styles and genres, of a more lyrical tone.<ref name="skai">{{cite web|url=http://www.skai.gr/master_story.php?id=106340 |script-title=el:Σίγησε η Μαρία Δημητριάδη |trans-title=Muting Maria Dimitriadi |author=Τελευταία Ενημέρωση |publisher=ΣΚΑΪ |language=Greek |format=PHP |date=7 January 2009 |accessdate=12 November 2009 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110717003519/http://www.skai.gr/master_story.php?id=106340 |archivedate=17 July 2011 }}</ref>
==Biography== Maria Dimitriadi was born on 11 April 1950 in the Athenian municipality of Tavros, where later she became a member of the municipal council.<ref name="musicpedia.gr">{{cite web |url=http://www.musipedia.gr/index.php/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B7_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1 |script-title=el:Δημητριάδη Μαρία |publisher=Musipedia |language=Greek |trans-title=Maria Dimitriadi |format=PHP |accessdate=12 November 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090827014637/http://www.musipedia.gr/index.php/%CE%94%CE%B7%CE%BC%CE%B7%CF%84%CF%81%CE%B9%CE%AC%CE%B4%CE%B7_%CE%9C%CE%B1%CF%81%CE%AF%CE%B1 |archive-date=27 August 2009 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was the older sister of the acclaimed Greek singer Aphrodite Manou.<ref name="enet" /><ref name="indy" />
Her career was connected with some of the greatest Greek composers, such as Stavros Xarhakos, with whom she recorded her debut single, "Ένα πρωινό", Mikis Theodorakis, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Kostas Grigoreas, Madra Mandicencio, and later on, Giannis Markopoulos and Manos Hadjidakis.<ref name="enet" /><ref name="indy" /><ref name="musicpedia.gr" />
In the early 1970s, during the military dictatorship in Greece, she was in Europe and toured with Theodorakis for four years. She continued to work with him until the early 1990s.<ref name="indy" /><ref name="musicpedia.gr" /> In 1974, Dimitriadi returned to Greece and, in the following years, she started working almost exclusively with Mikroutsikos.<ref name="indy" /> In these years she became a member of the Revolutionary Communist Movement of Greece (EKKE) and she was elected counsellor to serve on the Municipal Council of Tavros, a suburb in the south-western part of Athens in Greece.<ref name="indy" /><ref name="musicpedia.gr" />
In 1980, she signed for CBS Records and started her solo career.<ref name="indy" /> From 1991 to 1993, Dimitiradi lived and worked in former Yugoslavia and strongly opposed the embargo on Yugoslavia.<ref name="indy" />
She had a son, Stergios, with Greek television presenter Andreas Mikroutsikos. In later years, she had withdrawn from active singing and recording and became a sympathizer of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).<ref name="enet" /><ref name="indy" />
On 6 January 2009, Maria Dimitriadi died at the age of 58 in the Evangelismos General Hospital in Athens from a rare lung disease.<ref name="enet" /><ref name="indy" /><ref name="skai" />
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==External links== *[http://www.musical.gr/disc_search.php?gui_language=2&ar_co=1&a_id=760&cat_id=&my=0 Maria Dimitriadi discography].
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