[2][3] Dimitiradi primarily connected with political left-wing songs during the Junta and Metapolitefsi era in Greece, but she also experimented with other styles and genres, of a more lyrical tone.
[2][3] Her career was connected with some of the greatest Greek composers, such as Stavros Xarhakos, with whom she recorded her debut single, "Ένα πρωινό", Mikis Theodorakis, Thanos Mikroutsikos, Kostas Grigoreas, Madra Mandicencio, and later on, Giannis Markopoulos and Manos Hadjidakis.
[2][3][5] In the early 1970s, during the military dictatorship in Greece, she was in Europe and toured with Theodorakis for four years.
In later years, she had withdrawn from active singing and recording and became a sympathizer of the Communist Party of Greece (KKE).
[2][3] On 6 January 2009, Maria Dimitriadi died at the age of 58 in the Evangelismos General Hospital in Athens from a rare lung disease.