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Agapios Tomboulis
Agapios Tomboulis
	Smyrna style trio: K. Lambros, R. Eskenazi, A. Tomboulis (Athens, 1930)
Background information
Born	1891; Constantinople, Ottoman Empire
Died	1965 (73-74); Athens, Greece
Genres	Rebetiko (Smyrneiko)
Occupation(s)	Oudist
Years active	1900s-1965

Agapios Tomboulis (Hagop Stambulyan) (Greek: Αγάπιος Τομπούλης; 1891–1965) was a famous Armenian and Greek oud player of rebetiko and Greek folk music, Armenian folk music, Turkish folk music, Jewish folk music born in Constantinople, he is known for being a well known associate of Roza Eskenazi.

Life and career edit

Smyrna Trio (R-L) Dimitrios Semsis, Agapios Tomboulis, Roza Eskenazi (Athens, 1932)

Hagop Stambulyan was born in 1891 in the Pera district of İstanbul to an Armenian father and a Greek mother.^[1]

^ Koglin, Dr Daniel (28 January 2016). https://books.google.com.tr:Greek Rebetiko from a Psychocultural Perspective: Same Songs Changing Minds. Ashgate Publishing. ISBN 9781472465733. Retrieved 18 February 2017.