MICHALIS KALLERGIS - AROMA KRITIS (PERFUME OF CRETE)

Michalis Kallergis is undoubtedly a gifted artist who fully justifies the special position he holds in the field of Cretan music. With excellent technique in lyra and with a melodious voice, it is a steady ascendant course and certainly discovers a more complex and productive musical future.
He was born in Kardakiotissa Temenou in 1957, where he began his first musical steps, while today he lives in Heraklion with his wife and three children and deals withprofessionally with the lyra. The influences that he accepted beyond the narrow local environment were decisive for those of Kostas Mountakis, Thanasis Scardal and above all of him Nikos Xylouris.
However, he does not imitate, despite his eclectic preference for Nick Xylouris, and gradually manages to form a personal style that can be recognized already in the multifaceted music family of our country. He has thus managed to be himself and, at the same time, to refer to familiar musical memories that make up the character of an unbroken operational continuity.
His debut album began in 1987 with his first album "Strange My Love", followed by "Provantistikos sevdas", "The sunshine", "I stop singing "and he still participated in various recordings.
With this last album "Aroma of Crete", Michalis Kallergis in a phase of maturity, puts his most complete musical version and precisely defines the his artistic stigma in our ever changing and extremely uncertain musical landscape.