A collector’s item, Stavros Hadjisavvas’ cd ”You Keep Telling Me Motherland Is…” was released in 2010 as part of celebrations marking the fiftieth anniversary of the Rebuplic of Cyprus. Stavros set to music and interpreted an extensive excerpt from a poem by Leonidas Malenis. The song was first performed in public at the opening of an exhibition dedicated to composer and political thinker Mikis Theodorakis, held at the Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, in the presence of President Demetris Christofias and the President of the House of Representatives Marios Karoyian.
The musical arrangement: Lefki Stylianou Paraskeva.
Recorded at the studio a. i. musiclab under supervision of Akis Pavlou.
Cover: Michael Kleanthous.
The cd has become platinum.