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When George Sampson Sapounidis PHD, thought to learn a traditional Chinese folk song and then perform it before a Chinese audience in Ottawa, Canada, where he worked as a federal government statistician in 1999, he could not have imagined what surprises life held for him in the new millennium. The cliché that life is stranger than fiction certainly applies to Mr Sapounidis. The performance of the traditional folk song “The Girl from Daban City” before a 2,000 strong audience on Chinese New Year that set him on a road to China where he has performed to great success and brought Greek music to Chinese audiences of up to 30,000 strong for some of his concerts.

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