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geokoo (Giorgos Koutras)

Born: March 14, 1981

Giorgos "geokoo" Koutras is an Athens-based guitarist, composer and music educator. He started out playing classical guitar and ended up somewhere closer to gypsy swing.

He was a core member of The Swing Shoes & Sugahspank!, whose debut album "Ladies & Gents, Here's the Swing Shoes" came out in 2009 on Prominence Recordings. Along the way he has played and recorded with Psarantonis, the Xylouris family and Doros Demosthenous, and, further afield, worked with producer Lucas Mayer on the Lucas & Iris Fuzaro project in Brazil.

He picked up his first guitar at 15, taught himself for a couple of years, then went properly into formal studies at 17: a guitar diploma from the Piraeus Municipal Conservatory (class of C. Kotsiolis), the full theory ladder of harmony, counterpoint and fugue, a degree in European Culture, and later a master's in music pedagogy from the University of Nicosia.