Vasilis Papakonstantinou was born in a little village of Arkadia in 1950 . His big family moved to Athens in 1957 . He began singin in the age of 20 and after his military service in 1973 he went to Munich , Germany to participate and sing in anti-dictatoric commities where many greeks used to go . In 1974 he met Mikis Theodorakis in Paris . Their coorparation would start in 2 years . He returned to Athens the same year , and he started his professional career . He participated in Manos Loizos' album "Ta tragoudia tou dromou" . The next year he recorded "Ta agrotika" of Thomas Mpakalakos . It was that time when he met Manos Loizos and Thanos Mikroutsikos , two composers who brought a new sound to greek music . Vasilis was ideal to express the two artists . He coorparated for the first time in 1976 with Mikis Theodorakis and 2 years later Mikis Theodorakis , included him in his international tour giving him a chance to sing in Europe , America and Australia . From that time he started showing his influences from foreign rock , in his first two albums which he recorded in early 80's . The first was titled after his name and included songs from Antonis Vardis and remakes of Dionysis Savvopoulos , Mikis Theodorakis and Luis Lach . The second was titled "Fovamai" . Later on he met Nikolas Asimos and participated in his first album "Xanapes" . Asimos was the second person after Manos Loizos who influenced him greatly . In 1984 he recorded "Diairesi" establishing his sound in greek music . Vasilis was considered one of the most popular singer's by the middle 80's . In april of 1985 , 16000 fans attended his concert in the stadium "Eirinis kai filias" . From now on , his concerts are considered major events . In late 80's he records "Xorevo" . He sang with Nikolas Asimos again in Asimos' album "Falimento tou Kosmou" and later he recorded his new album "Sfentona" . He coorperated with Alkis Alkaios , Christophoros Krokidies , Vasilis Giannopoulos , Stamatis Mesimeris , Afroditi Manou , Odysseas Ioannou and Minos Matsas in 1994 recording "De Sikonei" . In 1997 he records "Pes mou ena psema n'apokoimitho". Two years later he comes back with a softer sound in his new album "Na me fonaxeis" . His latest work is the coorparation with Thanos Mikroustikos in the album "Thalassa stin skala" .