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Manos Hadjidakis was a Greek composer born on 23 October 1925 in Xanthi, Greece, and passed away on 15 June 1994 in Athens, Greece. In the late 1940s, he was the first to publicly appreciate and adapt "rebetika," the urban underground songs that emerged following the Asia Minor refugee influx to Greece in 1922. His popularity soared in the late 1950s and early 1960s with his pop compositions and movie soundtracks. Notably, in 1960, his song "Never on Sunday" from the film of the same name won him an Oscar for Best Original Song. Throughout his career, he collaborated with various artists and produced numerous stage soundtracks and concept albums. In 1985, he founded his own record company, Σείριος, and in 1989, he established an orchestra, serving as its first conductor. He also reorganized and managed the radio Third Program from 1975 to 1982. Additionally, he was the stepfather of an individual known as .

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