Giorgos Sabanis is an athletics national champion at 100 m, with 14 Pan-Hellenic gold medals and other individual distinctions.
They were singing and writing songs, one of them was "To Fili Tis Zois" which was performed by Helena Paparizou many years later.
[1] Giorgos Sabanis appeared at the 2004 Summer Olympics opening ceremony carrying a flag with an image of an olive branch symbolising not only peace, but Athens itself, lapped around the stadium, symbolically crossing tape dedicated to the previous 27 Olympiads.
[2] In October 2007, Sabanis recorded his first CD single "Kapou Allou" ("Somewhere Else") which consists of four tracks including his first success "S' Afino Tora Ston Epomeno" ("I Leave You to the Next").
He composed 9 songs for Peggy's album To Pathos Einai Aformi and became professionally conscious with the lyricist Eleana Vrahali.
Most popular was the songs "San To Fillo Ston Aera" ("Like the Leaf in the Wind"), "Ston Mation Sou To Gkrizo" ("In the Gray of Your Eyes"), "To Kalokairi Afto" ("This Summer"), "Mistirio Treno" and "Makria Gia Na Zo" ("Long As Long as I Live").
[13] Giorgos Sabanis released his latest studio album on 1 April 2019, called Paraxena Demenoi ("Strangely Intertwined").