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Evi Hassapides Watson | |
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| Birth name | Betty, No5 |
| Born | Corfu, Greece |
| Instrument(s) | Vocals, Guitar, Piano, Bass, Drums |
Evi Hassapides Watson is a Greek musician, known primarily as a vocalist.
Singer/Songwriter Evi Hassapides Watson (stage name for Evdoxia Chasapidi) is best known as "The Voice" [1] as lead vocalist for two iconic Greek underground bands, No Man's Land and Echo Tattoo. She Tames Chaos are her current, third band.
Watson, whom the specialist music press have named "Queen of the Greek Underground" and "Greece's leading female vocalist".[2] is considered to be "one of the most influential female performers in Greece"[3][4][5][6]
Watson was raised amongst Greek Americans, Americans, Brits and Canadian-Americans (one of the latter being her uncle Carl Maxwell Watson a.k.a. Hap, Director of Broadcast Standards for WNBC, NY, until his retirement in 1975).[7][8] As a result, she embraced the American culture and the English language as her vessel in lyrics that examine multiple layers of the human psyche. A passionate feminist and an equal rights supporter Watson writes about love, injustice and the human condition.
Watson's first recordings were made on a Sony tape recorder at the age of three, by her father.
- ^ Panagiotis Barlas on Popaganda,gr, Article: Vinyl Comeback for the legendary Echo Tattoo, May the 8th, 2014 http://popaganda.gr/viniliaki-epistrofi-ton-thrilikon-echo-tattoo/
- ^ Dinos Dimatatis, Get That Beat, Katsanos Publications,2001, pp.100,174 http://www.dinosdimatatis.gr/en/%ce%b2%ce%b9%ce%b2%ce%bb%ce%af%ce%b1/
- ^ Billboard (Magazine) August 14th, 1993, pg 43: Echo Tattoo Leads Greek Female Rockers, http://www.americanradiohistory.com/hd2/IDX-Business/Music/Archive-Billboard-IDX/IDX/90s/1993/BB-1993-08-14-OCR-Page-0001.pdf#search=%22echo%20tattoo%22
- ^ Mike Pougounas on his article "Hats off to the Lady", September 12, 2008, https://tribe4mian.wordpress.com/2008/09/12/hats-off-to-the-lady/
- ^ Archimidis Panagiotidis on his description of the artist, on his Interview with Evi Hassapides Watson, 2014 http://www.exostispress.gr/article/rock-n-roll-circus--eii-xasapidou-watson-0
- ^ Dinos Dimatatis, Get that Beat, Katsanos Publications,2001,pgs.100,174
- ^ "Networks Try to Strike Balance". The Edwardsville Intelligencer. Edwardsville, Illinois. December 12, 1973. p. 4 – via Newspapers.com.
"We're the original consumer activists," says Carl Watson, director of broadcast standards, who is in charge of passing on all commercials scheduled for NBC. Watson processes approximately 6,000 commercials per month. "Advertisers must be able to support their claims, often to a greater extent than demanded by the government and broadcast industry codes," Watson claims
- ^ NBC ARCHIVES http://memory.loc.gov/service/music/eadxmlmusic/eadpdfmusic/rs000001.pdf