Popular Greek singer Dakis died on Sunday at the age of 79 after a long battle with cancer.

Dakis, born Vrassidas Haralambidis in Alexandria, Egypt in 1943, came to Greece in 1963 and a year later he started singing in clubs.

He spoke six languages (Greek, French, Italian, Spanish and Arabic) something that allowed him to have an international repertoire.

His international collaborations included those with Charles Aznavour, Dalida, Milva, Joe Dassen, Sasha Distel and Demi Roussos who was his cousin.

Dakis was among the support singers at the Rolling Stones concert in Athens in August 1967 and has participated in many theater performances, TV shows and Greek movies.

He collaborated with several popular Greek composers like Mimis Plessas, Giannos Spanos and Giorgos Katsaros as well as with lyricists like Pythagoras, Lefteris Papadopoulos, Manos Eleftheriou and Dimitris Iatropoulos.

Among his most popular songs were “Monsieur Cannibal”, “Tu veux out tu veus pas” and other songs in Greek.

The video below features some rare moment of Dakis with Marinela and his tour in Australia: