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Greek singer Nana Mouskouri says farewell to stage in Barcelona because she needs to
"learn to live without it".
EFE PRESS - Barcelona 06/03/2008
Greek singer Nana Mouskouri has explained today that she's leaving the stage after fifty years because she needs to although she has confessed that she needs music "like breathing".
Her farewell to Spain will take place in Barcelona's Palau de la Música on March 14th as part of the Mil.leni festival.
In the press conference, the Greek singer had nothing but praise for the city that marked the begining of her international career: "In 1960 I participated in the Festival Mediterráneo that took place here; No one knew me but it was a wonderful surprise to win".
The warm singer also explained that it was after that recital that producers Michel Legrand and Quincy Jones came to her, intrigued by the "Greek singer that didn't take her glasses off".
Few artists can surpass Mouskouri's success after 300 albums and more than 1.500 songs in eleven different languages, including French, Spanish, Greek, German, Italian, Japonese, English or Hebrew.
It was the artist who explained that though the years she's taken an interest in learning from other cultures to enrich her knowledge and expand her way to express what music means to her.
A very emotional Mouskouri has revealed that music allowed her to realize that love exists, that tenderness is omportant to communicate with others and that dreams are necessary to go on living.
However, the singer has declared that she is not tired of singing, but that she felt "it was time to let the younger artists do what I have been doing for so long" and give to music as much - or more - than she's given.
"For 50 years, the stage has been my family, my husband, my lover and I am grateful that the audience has loved me until today because they have given me the strength to keep on going in this business"
Her repertoire for the concert is yet to be decided, but she has explained that it will be "very Latino": "I always try to sing more songs in the language of the country I am visiting but Spanish is, along with Greek, the language in which I am more comfortable to express what I feel, it's optimistic even when the lyrics are sad".
Her last concert will take place in July in her natal Greece and from there she will commit herself to her foundations, destined to help the youngsters and from which she wants to state that art is essential in human relations and needed in every inter-personal exchange.
She will also continue with her work in UNICEF and the work the organization is doing in the education fields, rights for boys and girls and health "because life is a journey and it's destination is to help children".
source: PUBLIC.ES / ÚLTIMA HORA - EFE PRESS
see the original text in Spanish
"learn to live without it".
EFE PRESS - Barcelona 06/03/2008
Greek singer Nana Mouskouri has explained today that she's leaving the stage after fifty years because she needs to although she has confessed that she needs music "like breathing".
Her farewell to Spain will take place in Barcelona's Palau de la Música on March 14th as part of the Mil.leni festival.
In the press conference, the Greek singer had nothing but praise for the city that marked the begining of her international career: "In 1960 I participated in the Festival Mediterráneo that took place here; No one knew me but it was a wonderful surprise to win".
The warm singer also explained that it was after that recital that producers Michel Legrand and Quincy Jones came to her, intrigued by the "Greek singer that didn't take her glasses off".
Few artists can surpass Mouskouri's success after 300 albums and more than 1.500 songs in eleven different languages, including French, Spanish, Greek, German, Italian, Japonese, English or Hebrew.
It was the artist who explained that though the years she's taken an interest in learning from other cultures to enrich her knowledge and expand her way to express what music means to her.
A very emotional Mouskouri has revealed that music allowed her to realize that love exists, that tenderness is omportant to communicate with others and that dreams are necessary to go on living.
However, the singer has declared that she is not tired of singing, but that she felt "it was time to let the younger artists do what I have been doing for so long" and give to music as much - or more - than she's given.
"For 50 years, the stage has been my family, my husband, my lover and I am grateful that the audience has loved me until today because they have given me the strength to keep on going in this business"
Her repertoire for the concert is yet to be decided, but she has explained that it will be "very Latino": "I always try to sing more songs in the language of the country I am visiting but Spanish is, along with Greek, the language in which I am more comfortable to express what I feel, it's optimistic even when the lyrics are sad".
Her last concert will take place in July in her natal Greece and from there she will commit herself to her foundations, destined to help the youngsters and from which she wants to state that art is essential in human relations and needed in every inter-personal exchange.
She will also continue with her work in UNICEF and the work the organization is doing in the education fields, rights for boys and girls and health "because life is a journey and it's destination is to help children".
source: PUBLIC.ES / ÚLTIMA HORA - EFE PRESS
see the original text in Spanish
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