Music : Thanos Mikroutsikos
Poem: Alkis Alkeos
Performer : Dimitris Mitropanos
Album : Stou Aiona Thn Paranga (1996)

Thanos Mikroutsikos for Rosa
"The recordings started in the summer of 1996." Rosa "taught us a lot in the studio. We could not find the way the drums would play. It was six o'clock and we were trying to find something that would satisfy me. Drummer was the great musician Nikos Kapilidis. I did not want the typical zeibek beats. At some point I ask Kapilidis to take off his shirt! "Are you serious?" asks me. "Absolutely," I reply. He takes off his shirt and I ask if there is any sheepskin in the studio for him to wear! Of course we did not find a sheep, but I tell Kapilidis to think that he is a Viking and to play the song as a Viking would play the zeibek. He did it perfectly ", Mikroutsikos recalls, while he reveals that Mitropanos could not sing for two weeks due to a track.

"Rosa" became an immediate success, the album was one of the most commercial of the last 20 years and this particular zeibek made many men get up from their chairs and throw their turns.
As for who the Rosa of the song is, Alkis Alkaios (the poet) never revealed if she was the emblematic revolutionary Rosa Luxemburg.
"He never wanted to, but never, no matter how many times I asked him to tell me, but personally I am one hundred percent sure that she is! Someone close to me had told me that there was once a Rose in his life but for me the song was undoubtedly written for Luxembourg. I think the shocking verse "how the need becomes history / how the history becomes silence" proves it, which summarizes the situation better than any other in the Greek language "

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