Sofia Vembo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sofia Vembo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Sofia Vembo (Greek: Σοφία Î'έμπο; 10 February 1910, in

Gallipoli, East Thrace, Turkey â€" 10 March 1978, in Athens, Greece)

was a leading Greek singer and actress active from the interwar period

to the early postwar years and the 1950s. She became best known for

her performance of patriotic songs during the Greco-Italian War, when

she was dubbed the "Songstress of Victory".Vembo's real name was Efi

Bembou (Έφη Μπέμποu). She was born in Gallipoli (Turkish:

Gelibolu; Greek: Καλλίπολη, i.e. "beautiful city"), Eastern

Thrace - Turkey, in 1910, but after the Asia Minor Catastrophe, her

family moved to Tsaritsani in Greece, where her father became a

tobacco worker, and later to Volos in Greece.She began her career in

Thessaloniki in the early 1930s. In the winter of 1933, she was hired

by the theater operator Fotis Samartzis of the Kentrikon theater for

the revue "Parrot 1933". She then began to record romantic songs for

the Columbia company, achieving fame because of her distinctly

sonorous contralto voice.Her reputation, however, skyrocketed after

the Italian attack on Greece on 28 October 1940, when her performance

of patriotic and satirical songs became a major inspiration for the

fighting soldiers as well as the people at large for whom she quickly

became a folk heroine. At the same time, she offered 2,000 gold pounds

from her own fortune to the Hellenic Navy. Following the German

invasion and occupation of the country in April 1941, she was

transported to the Middle East, where she continued to perform for the

Greek troops in exile.
Sofia Vembo Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki


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