KOSTAS
(*1949)
KOSTAS (b. K. Lazarides, Salonika, Greece, 1949) An unlikely, but highly successful, Greek-born country songwriter, Kostas penned many of the biggest hits of the 1990s. Raised in the northwestern U.S. from the age of seven, Kostas originally played a mix of American popular music, working through his twenties and thirties in a regional rock band that gained a small following. He also cut a solo album for a tiny Seattle label in 1980, but it went nowhere. In the mid-1980s Nashville power…