Hatzidakis Manos

Manos Hadjidakis was born in Xanthi in 1925. His father was from Crete and his mother from Andrianoupoli. In 1938 they moved to Athens and Manos grow up in Pagrati. From the age of four he started studying the piano and from 1940 to 1943 he studied higher theoretical with Menelaos Pallantios which was one of the most signifying shapes of the Greek national music school. One of his schoolmates was Mikis Theodorakis. He started lessons on music in the musical academy but he gave them up after the command. The war, the command and the bread-winning needs which where created made him to change direction. He worked as a workman in F.I.X, he was a servant at the photographic studio in Megalokonomos, he also worked as a male nurse. He studied philosophy at the University of Athens, while he was nurtured by artists and intellectuals of the generation of the mean war (Seferis, Elytis, Tsarouhis, Gatsos, Sikelianos). He became a member of the school of the Theatre of Art by karolos Koun on purpose to become an actor.