The most melodic “Music Box” opens on ERT, hosted by Nikos Portokaloglou and Rena Morfi.

Guests from diverse musical backgrounds reveal the playlist of their lives through unexpected interviews.

The idea for this weekly show, which is not based on any foreign format but was inspired by Nikos Portokaloglou’s musical performance Juke Box, is built around the motto “Music brings people together.” Each episode brings together different singers or singer-songwriters in the studio, where – through surprise questions and musical games – they share both well-known and lesser-known moments from their personal and professional lives, while performing songs no one would have imagined them singing.

At the same time, the show gives a platform to young artists, who appear in front of established musicians to present their own songs. Special segments are also dedicated to all genres of music, to Greek folk tradition, to cinema, to street artists, and to personalities who have left their mark on the history of Greek music.

“Music Box” opens on ERT to welcome artists we don’t often see on television – artists from different generations and musical worlds – who surprise us with unexpected performances, coming together for the first time in response to the invitation of ERT, Nikos Portokaloglou, and Rena Morfi, who also take part in the musical surprises.

We welcome Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Vicky Karatzoglou and Maria Papageorgiou to honor one of our top composers through stories and songs, Manos Loizos.

The evening is dedicated to the great composer who left us a great legacy even though he left early. Manos Loizos was a multifaceted case of a composer who wrote from militant political songs to romantic ballads and from art and rock to folk songs. In his twenty-year musical career he wrote some of the best Greek songs, collaborating with lyricists Giannis Negrepontis, Fontas Ladis, Manolis Rasoulis, Dimitris Christodoulou and Lefteris Papadopoulos. His songs, full of lyricism and tenderness, were performed by great names of Greek song, such as George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Giannis Poulopoulos, Giannis Parios, Maria Farantouri, Stelios Kazantzidis and other great performers.