Apostolos Nikolaidis (singer)

For the athlete, see Apostolos Nikolaidis (athlete).
Apostolos Nikolaidis
Apostolos Nikolaidis in 1995
Apostolos Nikolaidis in 1995
Background information
Born(1938-06-30)30 June 1938 Drama, Greece
OriginThessaloniki, Greece
Died22 April 1999(1999-04-22) (aged 60) Athens, Greece
GenresLaïka, Rebetika
OccupationSinger
Years active1962–1999
Websitewww.apostolosnikolaidis.com

Apostolos Nikolaidis (Greek: Απόστολος Νικολαΐδης) (30 June 1938 – 22 April 1999) was a Greek singer whose career spanned four decades. He was born in Drama, Greece and grew up in Thessaloniki. He is best known for being the first Greek artist to record or re-record the authentic, "prohibited" rebetika songs in the early 1970s with their original lyrics at a time when this type of music was censored in Greece due to the military junta of 1967–1974 in power.