[2] During his childhood Angelopoulos traveled all over Greece with his Hellenized-Gypsy family caravan selling a variety of goods from carpets to watermelons.
The caravan trucks had a microphone and he began to sell these items through the use of his singing voice over the loudspeakers.
His singing talent attracted many composers and producers offering him the opportunity to record his first song in 1957.
The melody is based on a tune by the Egyptian composer Mohammed Abdel Wahab.
[3] Manolis Angelopoulos died in London hospital on 2 April 1989, one week before his fifty years, due to complications from heart surgery (triple bypass), which he had submitted on 14 January.