Ragizi Apopse i Kardia

 

“It breaks your heart tonight”

This article is part of my series on common belly dance songs that appear under different titles.

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Summary

“Ragizi Apopse I Kardia” is a Greek pop hit about lost love.

It’s great for lyrical veil work, depending on the tempo, and most Greek bands will know it.
 

Various Names

 

“Ragizi Apopse I Kardia”

(Sometimes spelled “”Raghizi Apopse I Kardhia”)

(Lyrics in Greek and English)

This sad song is about lost love, and how music can make your heart break.

From a web search, it sounds like it was written and recorded by Nikos Papazoglou in 1978, but I’m not sure I understood correctly. (I was reading sites via Google Translate, which isn’t perfect.) If you know more about the history of this song, I’d love to hear it!

 

“Baglamadaki”

Sometimes the song is titled “Baglamadaki”, because the “it” that’s breaking the singer’s heart is the baglama (stringed instrument).

 

Recordings

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• Raghizi Apopse i Kardhia by Mary Ellen Donald and Mimi Spencer
• Baglamadaki by Anto
• Raghizi Apopse i Kardhia by Pangia

 

Your Turn

Have you danced to this song before?

What’s your favorite recording of this song?
(Share a link if you have it, or the artist and/or album name.)

Do you know of any other names that this song goes by?

Do you know anything else interesting about this song?

Do you know of any other songs with duplicate names that I should write about?
 

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