The melodies, delicately embracing the deeper meanings of the lyrics, find their ideal expression through the unique performance of Sotiris Doganis along with the great Cretan lyre player – performer Vasilis Skoulas and the exquisite Sofia Tserou. Mihalis Terzis composed the songs, Anna Bithikotsi wrote the lyrics and Mihalis Nikoloudis did the orchestration.

A Professor of Byzantine Music and accomplished Cantor, Doganis was born and raised in Alones, Rethymno, on the island of Crete. His voice is so deeply connected with the forms of his place of origin, that its expression personifies the root, a wonderful amalgam of the elements which constitute tradition, as it emerges from the Byzantium and reaches our days.

Doganis grew up in an environment in which his daily life was connected with song. Along with his first words, he started singing. His teachers were his anonymous fellow Cretans and the great troubadours of Cretan Music Kostas Moudakis, Thanasis Skordalos, Manolis Kaklis and others. His role model was Nikos Xylouris. Being a member of music-dance group “Arkadi” he started singing and “traveling” always further on. They year 1993 was a landmark for him, as he was acquainted with the Romiosini performer Grigoris Bithikotsis and since then the Sir of Greek song, Anna Bithikotsi and Kostas Nikolopoulos led him in art song, as he worked alongside acknowledged artists of Greek music. His career reached a top in 1996 with the release of his first personal record, titled “Horos I Zoi” (Life is a Dance) with lyrics by Anna Bithikotsi and music by Kostas Nikolopoulos, featuring the performance of Grigoris Bithikotsis himself and with internationally acclaimed Υanni trusting Sotiris Doganis with the melody of “Desire” for the homonymous song.