Biography:

Robert Williams (Robertos-Konstantinos Williams) ( Athens , December 4, 1949 – August 21, 2022) was a Greek singer and composer. In 1977 he represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest , where he won fifth place.

Robert Williams was born in 1949 to a British father and a Greek mother. For a time he worked in Rhodesia after finishing high school. ^[5]

From the beginning of the 1970s he was the guitarist and singer of the rock band POLL , where Kostas Tournas , Spyros Mavroyiannis, Stavros Logaridis , Nasia Sandi and Mary Glass also participated. ^[6] From 1974 he was also an active pop and rock singer. His first album was released in 1974 under the title “Robert Williams”. In 1976, he achieved great success with the song “Mila mou” from the album “Esy ki ego”.

In 1977 she represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest with Paschalis , Bessy Argyraki and Marianna Tolis and reached fifth place with the song Mathima solfèze . ^[7]

In 1991, he wrote the music and lyrics for several songs for the television series The Shining of Nikos Foskolos .

In a 2013 interview, he said he worked for the Collective Bargaining Authority, the singers’ copyright body. ^[8]

He also composed the New Democracy anthem . ^[9]

He passed away on August 21, 2022, after a battle with cancer . ^[10]

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