The Disco Kid

Costa Anadiotis was born in Greece and moved to South Africa at the age of 18. During the 12 years he lived in South Africa he played with several local bands including Buffalo, Fantasy and Café Society.

Buffalo, the band of Peter Vee, was a group mainly doing classic rock covers, blending rock and disco.
Anadiotis played the keyboards in their first 3 albums (Born To Be Wild – 1978, Magic Carpet Ride – 1979 and We’re So Glad You Made It – 1980).

Buffalo - Magic Carpet Ride (from Magic Carpet Ride LP, 1979)

Fantasy was a disco band playing mostly originals mainly written by Anadiotis, Angelopulo and Chelakis.
They released one LP (Fantasy) in 1979.
Anadiotis played keyboards and contributed vocals.
According to YouTube uploader keurspel (Leon Rossouw) they supported The Temptations in 1979 while in 1980 they toured in Greece for several months.

Fantasy - Baby I'm In Love (from Fantasy LP, 1979)

Café Society was the personal vehicle of Costa Anadiotis who played almost all instruments and produced the one album they released in 1985, Relight My Fire and the various singles.
The band was formed in Johannesburg in 1984 and was a quite successful italo-disco act of the 80s.


Café Society - Night Rider (from Relight my fire LP, 1985)



In 1986 we find Costa playing keyboards and producing the Cineromantza album of Giannis Palamidas.
From the 90s and on Costa lives in Greece, writing, playing and producing for several Greek artists.

International discography @ Discogs
Buffalo
Greek discography @ Discogs

3 X Calypso

Andrews Sisters, daughters of Greek immigrant Peter Andreos, became the most popular female vocal group of the first half of the 20th century.
In 1945 their recording of Lord Invader’s Rum and Coca Cola was the most popular song in US.

The Andrews Sisters - Rum and Coca Cola

Demis Roussos covers the Jamaican folk song – made popular by Harry Belafonte version – Day O (The Banana Boat Song) in his album Magic (1977) which was produced by Vangelis.

Demis Roussos - Day O



De Traces were formed in 1987 and released their only album up, Estrella Del Caribe, in 1999. The recording of Lord Creator’s song, Big Bamboo, is only available on an earlier compilation of Elfish records (Random Relations, Part 1 – 1992).

De Traces - Big Bamboo

Greek AOR

Taxi and Coo both left but one album.
Yet both albums are the best Greek ones of what we call AOR or melodic rock.

Taxi released their album Take it or Leave it in 1980.
Members of the band where Yiannis Saroglou, Richard Whitman, Nikos Politis and Nikos Karvelas who has written all music and lyrics.

Take it or leave it

 Breakin' in

Coo released their album Rock Eyes in 1982.
The band members where Manos Neofitos, Babis Persidis, John Calabokas, Bill Ghinos, Cosmas Amiralis, while the album was produced by Makis Milatos.








Coo full album Rock Eyes