Sokratis Malamas was born on September 29, 1957, in
Sykia in
Chalkidiki, Greece. His family moved to
Stuttgart, Germany for a few years, he later moved to
Thessaloniki. There, he sang bouzouki songs and he learned from his father about his music. At age thirteen, he bought his first guitar and practiced for his presentations at school works and when he was seventeen, he followed his guitar studies at the Macedonian Conservatory of Thessaloniki (
Μακεδονικό Ωδείο Θεσσαλονίκης =
Makedoniko Odeio Thessalonikis). He returned to Germany after he finished school and later went to the Stuttgart Odeon. In one difficult period of his life, he came back to Greece and attended studies at the
National Conservatory of Athens (
Εθνικό Ωδείο Αθηνών =
Ethniko Odeio Athinon). He was taught by
Vangelis Assimakopoulos and
Notis Mavroudis. At 23, he began his professional career, worked as a guitar teacher and a singer in some public shops. Before he continued into his personal way, he was a guitarist at the orchestra of
Nikos Papazoglou. He continued to play music in public shops, he tried and put his songs on programs. Not until the time that Nikos Papazoglou made him enter the studio and began his first album
Aspromavres Istories in 1989. Sokratis Malamas wrote songs for theatrical releases and made his performance in the odeon. His direction of his works was better known and loved his charts. He performed with famous musicians including
Manolis Rasoulis, composers including
Nikos Xydakis, singer
Melina Kana, singer Lizeta Kalimeri,singer-songwriter
Thanasis Papakonstantinou and cooperated with other lyricists and musicians including
Giannis Tsatsopoulos,
Giorgos Athanassopoulos,
Alkis Alkaiou,
Fotini Lambridis,
Thodoros Gonis,
Michalis Gkanas and
Odysseas Ioannou. He also participated in works of other musicians including
Dionyssis Tsaknis,
Maria Thoidou,
B.D. Foxmoor and
Sadahzinia (of
Active Member),
Eleftheria Arvanitaki,
Thanos Mikroutsikos,
Michalis Siganidis,
Takis Vouis,
Maria Papanikolaou Alkinoos Ioannidis,
Haris Alexiou and others. Malamas also wrote songs and featured them in movies including
To Kynigi To Lagou (
Το Κυνήγι του Λαγού) and interpreted a song called
To Chrono na Lavoso (
Το χρόνο να λαβώσω) in a short-length film
Ypsoma 33 (
Ύψωμα 33) [http://www.gfc.gr/3/31/film_gr.asp?id=373, ==Discography==