Giorgos Kalogridis was born at Spili, Rethymno, in 1923. At the age of fourteen, he started playing the lyre. During the occupation, he lived at Spili and, a little later, he left for Athens. In this period, he recorded his first album. He recorded a total of twenty songs, some of which he had composed himself.

Thanasis Skordalos was born in December 1920 at Spili, Rethymno. He first held a lyre in his hands when he was 9 years old. At the age of nineteen, he made his first official appearance at the carnival fete of Cretan people living in Athens, at historical "Vizantio" at Omonoia.