How lucky am I? Lucky enough that I get to watch my song “Breathless” being sung on Greek TV, in rolling Greek-accented English, as though it’s an old standard.
Lefteris Pantazis, Greek Singer, Covers “Breathless”
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12:24 pm on 3/31/11
You honestly didn’t have a stroke after watching this???
Look at this too then…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adrcY4zfWtk
Best Regards from Greece!
1:08 pm on 4/4/11
OMG. They were joking that you would suicide after watching this. Are you seriously OK?
3:47 pm on 4/4/11
LOL you have to know that Lefteris Pantazis (also known as LEPA:P ) was a famous representative of the mainstream, low quality music.
Maybe with this post Pantazis is very lucky. Nobody hear his music anymore…
Regards, also, from Greece!
6:06 pm on 4/4/11
After listening to Lefteris Pantazis version, I’m honestly “Breastless” !!!
4:52 am on 4/5/11
Hello, this guy doesn’t know english, so he hired a techer to write him the english lyrics in greek!!!
7:54 am on 4/5/11
Niko, I think the one you posted is, at least, funny.
I also wonder how he survived listening to Lefteri Pantazi killing the song…
Dan, do you really consider yourself lucky?!
7:56 am on 4/5/11
my dear Dan …hellas changed the last years..became like …you know what means arvyla ?
totally different !!
hellas is like sagionara ..xofterni!!!
8:54 am on 4/5/11
Haha the video posted in the first comment is amazing. Make sure to watch it through.
9:06 am on 4/5/11
Killing my soflty…with this song….
We still prefer the oringinal..
10:54 am on 4/5/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8o_SIoa5GNM&feature=related
11:00 am on 4/5/11
^ EPIC COMMENT ^
All Greece have the same question
1:05 pm on 4/5/11
you gotta b kidding dan!!! no chance u appreciated a single bit of it! looks like you are quite lenient! lol! anyways, in that case, i love your sense of humour!!! niki from Greece (just for the record, the greatest tv-show in Greece right now,announced your post on your web page about that whatsoever(!!) performance!)
2:46 pm on 4/5/11
This made me laugh:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYBhYAciuwY&feature=related
10:38 am on 4/6/11
the songs pantazis sings are mostly greek songs for belly-dancing, the kind of songs the greek people above(me included) listen when they go to bouzoukia. so it’s cheap to belittle him as a person just because of his poor performance in a different song.:P
8:18 pm on 4/6/11
don’t you have humour guys? it’s not a cover, it’s a parody! and the original parody -posted above- is better http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adrcY4zfWtk
7:14 am on 4/8/11
LEGENDARY moments by Lefteris Pantazis… I really like that song but now..hmm…thank god my memory isn’t my strong aspect
1:16 pm on 4/8/11
Ok come on now… Tell me that you want from greeks to translate this because you think he stole your music.
PS @Stefan: Sagionara ksofterni leei xaaxaxaxa theos!!
11:56 am on 4/11/11
Oh come on guys don’t be so harsh with LePa. The guy had a huge career and millions of people listened to his songs and fell in love with them, in Greece.
Personally i do not like his songs that much but we shouldn’t be so judgmental with an artist who has entertained so many people for more than a decade, and introduced Greek music to many middle eastern countries. Whether we like it or not it is the truth.
He liked the song, he was touched, and tried to sing it the best he could.
2:06 pm on 4/11/11
Tsikolis makes a good point.
I don’t know anything about LePa, I just enjoyed his version of my song, old-fashioned as it was. It made me smile and I loved that he was giving it his all.
I like my version a lot too, but I am not impartial.
DW
6:49 am on 4/30/11
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npOaWFw77NY from the same “singer ”
don’t take it personally we love you in greece!!
8:13 am on 4/30/11
I would feel very honored to have some foreign star (maybe past his prime, but he looks popular) actually work that hard to learn a song I wrote …. obviously it left him breathless!!
Check YouTube, others have massacred it, he at least has a voice and stage presence (and hot back up chicks that don’t sing?)
When was the last time you (meaning any musician) learned another language just to sing a song?
I love your music, it always bothers me that it seems you are barely thought of here in Minnesota and are quite famous in Greece! If I were Dan Wilson I’d be hauling the family to that warm sunny beautiful country for a few months and get inspired by the adoring crowd!
10:05 am on 5/3/11
I think that these guys, were the first that have done this greek COVer..
hahaha ..Their name is ”440 hz” and they have made this 2 years ago… check this out… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGUQD-rhU4U&feature=related …very nice!!!