Greek New Wave

Music of Greece
General topics
Ancient music Byzantine music Opera Greek musical system Greek musical instruments Greek dances Worldwide
Genres
Church music (Byzantine) Classical music Ionian School Greek folk Laïko Rock Hip Hop Punk Greek New Wave (Neo kyma)
Specific forms
Contemporary Entehno Nisiotika Rebetiko Skiladiko
Media and performance
Music awards	Arion Awards MAD Video Music Awards Pop Corn Music Awards
Music charts	Greek Albums Chart Foreign Albums Chart Singles Chart
Music festivals	Athens Festival Epidaurus Festival Olympus Festival Thessaloniki Song Festival
Music media	Difono MAD TV (MAD World, Blue) MTV Greece
Nationalistic and patriotic songs
National anthem	"Hymn to Liberty"
Regional music
Related areas	Cyprus, Pontus, Constantinople, South Italy
Regional styles	Aegean Islands Central Greece Crete Epirus (polyphonic song) Ionian Islands Macedonia Peloponnese Thessaly Thrace

The Greek New Wave (Greek: Νέο Κύμα, pronounced [ˈneo ˈcima]) was a movement in Greek music that started in the mid-1960s and lasted about a decade. It was a mixture of entechno and French chansons; it was so named by Giannis Spanos after the French Nouvelle Vague.^[1]

Notable Greek artists from the Neo Kyma movement include:

• Arleta
• Keti Chomata
• Kostas Hatzis
• Mariza Koch
• Rena Koumioti
• Notis Mauvroudes
• Lakis Pappas
• Giannis Poulopoulos
• Dionysis Savvopoulos
• Giannis Spanos
• Mihalis Violaris
• Giorgos Zographos

See also

• Rebetiko
• Laiko

References

External links

• Contemporary Greece 1945-2000, Foundation of the Hellenic World