rock) Pyx Lax (band) Pop and contemporary laïkó 1980–2010s Anna Vissi (Cypriot singer) (laïká, pop rock) Alexia (Alexia Vassiliou) (Cypriot singer) Bessy Argyraki (pop ballads) Kostas Bigalis (pop rock, contemporary laïkó) Christos Dantis (pop rock, contemporary laïkó) Marianna Efstratiou Evridiki (Cypriot singer) (pop rock, contemporary laïkó) Thanos Kalliris (occasionally pop, ballads, contemporary laïkó) Nikos Karvelas (contemporary laïkó and pop rock composer) Stephanos Korkolis (pop, éntekhno and laïkó composer (late 1980s–'10s); piano-oriented pop singer (early 1990s)) Christos Kyriazis Mando (pop rock, pop ballads, laïká) Natalia Elena Paparizou (a.k.a. Helena Paparizou), winner of the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 representing Greece Polina (disco, contemporary laïkó) Michalis Rakintzis (disco, power ballad) Sakis Rouvas (pop rock, dance-pop, soul) Despina Vandi (laïká, pop rock) Sophia Vossou (pop ballad, contemporary laïkó) Teen pop 2000s–2010s Artemis Gounaki (record producer, musical arranger) Hi-5 (girl group) Kalomira One (Cypriot boy band) Tamta Alternative / soft rock 1970s Poll Nostradamos 1990s–2010s Ble C:Real Domenica Kore. Ydro. (Indie rock band) Locomondo (reggae and ska band) 2000s–2010s Infidelity (Indie rock band) Monika Christodoulou Emigre Tania Nassibian Mikro Kitrina Podilata Endelekheia (Alternative Band) Katerina Kyrmizi Matisse (Post-Punk revival, Indie rock) Nikos Mihas (Pop punk) ONAR Onirama Joanna Drigo Konstantinos Vita Raining Pleasure (anglophone Indie rock band) Minor Project Rosebleed (Alternative band) The Skelters (anglophone rock band) Theodosia Tsatsou (Alternative) Michalis Delta Ypogeia Revmata (éntekhno rock band) Mainstream hip hop / pop rap 1990s–2010s crews Imiskoúmbria Stereo Mike (solo artist) ZN Kafe Piperies Terror X Crew FF.C Independent music scenes Since the late 1970s various independent scenes of "marginal" musical genres have appeared in Greece (mainly in Athens, Piraeus, and Thessaloniki). Most of them were short-lived and never gained mainstream popularity but the most prominent artists/bands of these scenes are critically acclaimed today and are considered among the pioneers of independent Greek music (each one in their own genre). Genres Greek jazz ('70s: Sphinx (band), Sakis Papadimitriou, Floros Floridis, Manolis Mikelis) Greek blues ('80s–'10s): Blues Wire Blues-rock / prog rock / art rock ('70s–'80s: Socrates Drank the Conium, Aphrodite's Child, Pavlos Sidiropoulos, Spyridoula (band), Nikolas Asimos, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Dimitris Poulikakos) New wave / post-punk / synthpop / gothic rock ('80s bands: Metro Decay, Film Noir, Villa 21, Anti Troppau Council; 2000s: Marsheaux) Greek punk ('80s–'10s bands: Adiexodo, Genia Tou Chaous, Deus ex Machina, Panx Romana) Greek rock ('80s–'10s bands: Trypes, Diafana Krina, Endelekheia, Xýlina Spathiá, Morá Sti Fotiá, Dytikes Synoikies) Indie rock (Anglophone 1990s and