Kleon Triantafyllou, who became widely known as Attik, was a Greek light music composer and singer. He was born to an affluent family in Athens in 1885, but he grew up in Egypt and studied in France. His career began in Paris where he lived for many years; he married a French dancer and published more than 300 songs. Following the untimely death of his wife and his newborn child, he returned to Athens. It was there that he met the actress Marika Filippidou; he fell madly in love with her and eventually married her.