Evrim Atesler is a musician and singer born in Izmir, Turkey. Playing a number of eastern and western musical instruments (the piano, the guitar, the ney, the clarinet, the ud, the buzuki and percussions), he is particularly interested in Greek music and has specialised in it. He is known as one of the best performers in Turkey of the famous “Smyrneika” as well as the “Rembetika”, a Greek musical genre also known as the “Greek Blues”. He is also a composer and arranger of musical works for the theatre and the cinema. Evrim has been developing his musical life incorporating both eastern and western influences. Evrim has been acting as a bridge between traditional Izmir musical cultures as well as old and contemporary interpretation styles of Rembetika songs by reviving them and making them known to Turkish and world audiences.