User talk:ATHANASIOS ALATAS

Cartoonist - journalist, music composer and music producer.

Enters into anything that will surprise and inspire him, also engaged in book writing, research and trade unions.

At the age of 17 he published his first cartoons in the TA NEA and TO PONTIKI newspapers. His cartoons have been published in various Greek newspapers and magazines such as TA NEA, TO VIMA, TO PONTIKI, Eidiseis, RIZOS, I EVDOMI, OIKONOMIKOS TACHYDPOMOS, OMADA, ASFALISTIKI AGORA etc. since 1970.

A permanent author for the OIKONOMIKOS TACHYDPOMOS magazine, a contributing author in other Greek magazines such as ASFALISTIKI AGORA, PERITECHNON, EuroMagazine as well as the TA NEA TIS TECHNIS newspaper. Some of his comic strips have been published in the MAMOUTH magazine and the Greek version of MAD magazine, while his series titled ‘Athena the Owl’ have been published in the PONTIKI newspaper. He has participated in many international cartoonists exhibitions. His individual cartoon exhibition called "The Holy Light”, dedicated to the Athens Olympic Games, was the only one ever presented at a Paralympic Games venue.

He serves as Secretary General in the BoD of the Hellenic Union of Magazine and Electronic Press Journalists and he is a founding member of the Hellenic Federation of Journalists’ Associations (POESY).

A founding member of the music band 4 LEVELS OF EXISTENCE. His collaboration with JAY-Z on the song titled RUN THIS TOWN, which JAY-Z performed with RIHANNA and KANYE WEST, earned him a spot at the Billboard Magazine’s global top 10 list (# 1). On January 31, 2010, RUN THIS TOWN won two awards at the 2010 52nd Grammy Awards in the 33rd and 34th categories for Best Rap Song Composition. On October 5, 2010, he received two international URBAN MUSIC AWARDS from BMI as the most successful European artist in the US. He is the only Greek artist to have ever received these international music awards.

In 2012, RUN THIS TOWN was the closing song for the London Paralympic Games closing ceremony, performed by JAY-Z, RIHANNA and Coldplay.

He has published 5 books (in Greek) 

• The Adventures of an Insurance Salesman (comic book)

• The Blow (philosophical theory)

• The Genesis of News (a philosophical approach)

• The Holy Light (cartoons dedicated to the Olympic Games)

• Polytechnic University (about the events at the Athens Polytechnic University in 1973).

Music recordings

• Τhe 4 Levels of Existence

• Within the City Plan

• Eyes

• Run This Town (single)  Jay-Z - Rihanna - Kanye West

• BLUE PRINT III          Jay-Z

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