Nana sings so long to Halifax
Mouskouri wants to leave stage while voice still in good shape
By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter
Nana Mouskouri jokes that she probably knows Canada better than many Canadians.
The Greek singing legend, on her final tour of Canada at the age of 72, can rattle off the name of many a small Canuck town where she’s performed: "I have been in Moosejaw and Sept Iles, Rimouski and Lethbridge."
No matter the size of the town, she says, "it was the stage that was important."
While Mouskouri is saying good-bye to her fans on The Farewell Tour she won’t be saying goodbye to Canada. Her first grandchild is going to be Canadian. Mouskouri’s son, Nicolas, and his wife are expecting their first child at the end of the year, and Mouskouri is keen to be a grannie.
"Absolutely," she says from Athens, where her house is close by the sea. Her 35-year-old daughter Helene (Lenou) Mouskouri has recorded two albums and lives in France and Germany.
Last in Halifax in 2003, Mouskouri’s concert on Friday at the Halifax Metro Centre will definitely be her last here as the singer wraps up 47 years of being on the road.
She wants to leave while her voice is still in good shape. "I don’t want to leave an impression that I am not as good as always."
She is also eager to get off the road. "I decided to do this last tour to have a chance to be in places I’ve been in for so many years and to say thank you very much. The audience has been so important.
"I was in Halifax the first time 30 years ago and I came back four or five times. There are places that have meant a lot to me and it is important to me to go there.
"I remember when I first came to the Maritimes to sing at a stadium they were so excited, the people. It leaves you with memories of the audience. I always had a special relationship with the audience."
Instead of having huge production numbers with dancers and special effects, "it’s much more intimate and friendly and my music has a sense of a message of connection, of understanding, of love, sharing, of feeling peace, of dignity, for justice. They are symbols that mean a lot to people — and me as well— that we shared."
Her songs are positive and Mouskouri is a positive person even though her job since 1993 as a UNICEF ambassador has given her a clear picture of human suffering. "What you see most of the time, of course, is desperation but there is also hope. There is always hope things will get better.
"You must have hope, you can’t sit back. There is hope as long as you work."
Today Mouskouri has homes in Athens, Paris, London and Germany. She has recorded over 1,500 songs in a dozen languages with over 300 million records sold. Apart from intense international travel throughout Asia, Europe, North America and South America, she also hosted her own TV series from 1968 to 1981 and was Greek deputy to the European parliament from 1994 to 1999.
She was born Ioanna (Nana is her nickname) in Crete and moved at the age of three to Athens, where her father, a movie projectionist, was a resistance fighter during the Second World War.
She started taking classical voice lessons when she was 12 but was later kicked out of the Athens Conservatory when it was discovered she’d been singing with a jazz group at night. She began singing jazz in nightclubs, and won several song contests that launched her international career.
Mouskouri likes to read books in their original language and sings fluently in six languages, which she calls her babies — German, Italian, Greek, English, French and Spanish. "I know them very well so I can sing with my heart.
"A French song is more intellectual. A Greek song is more earthy. I love to sing in Spanish, you have so much emotion.
"I remember Quincy Jones when I did my first recording in 1962 he said ‘you are such a good singer in your own language you can really be great in any language.’ If you really have an identity in one language you’re interested to learn the others and be as good with them."
One of Mouskouri’s vocal cords is thicker than the other and that has meant she needed to train harder to get the cords to work together. "They need now still a lot of work.
"It was also wonderful because I got to know how to work the mouth and to protect them and this gives a certain colour to my voice which is not usual.
"The low notes are more husky and when I go up with it it’s clear. It’s wonderful for me at the age I am my voice has changed in colour but I haven’t lost any of the height of the range and I still sing on the same keys as when I was 25 or 30 years old."
Mouskouri, who initially wore her distinctive black-rimmed glasses as "protection" but now can’t imagine life without them, doesn’t have much time to relax but whenever she does, "I do some reading, I draw a little bit, I listen to music, I like to watch movies as well, but I don’t have very much time to relax. What I like most is to swim."
She always stays if possible at hotels with swimming pools. "It’s important for my respiration to do a little bit of exercise. It relaxes me being in the water. It’s the best relaxation you can have being in the water and to watch the water. If you watch the sea it’s very relaxing."
Mouskouri’s The Farewell Tour: One last song from Nana with love . . . is at the Halifax Metro Centre on Friday, 8 p.m. Tickets are $45.50 and $55.50 (tax included; service charge extra). Call the Ticket Atlantic box office at 451-1221, visit participating Atlantic Superstores or go online at www.ticketatlantic.com.
( ebarnard@herald.ca)
’I do some reading, I draw a little bit, I listen to music, I like to watch movies as well, but I don’t have very much time to relax. What I like most is to swim.’
6/08/2007
Nana News 5, www.hfxnews.ca、から
Nana News, hfxnews.ca、から
今サヨナラコンサートが行われている、カナダからハリファックスのニュースをご紹介します♪
6月8日公演でした♪
Mouskouri on farewell tour to say thank you
DEAN LISK
Cher liked it so much, she keeps doing it and doing it.
But, Nana Mouskouri - that other singer with the raven hair parted down the centre - says this concert tour is her last one.
"I am not going to do that," Mouskouri said. "I am going to be stubborn about it and say No. This is a way to say thank you, because one day I won't be able to say that."
The Greek-born chanteuse pays her final musical respects to Halifax on Friday with a performance at the Metro Centre. It is part of a farewell world tour Mouskouri has been undertaking to officially say goodbye to her fans before retreating behind the scenes.
"I can sing well still, but I have started thinking, 'How long can it last?'" she asks on the phone from her home in Geneva. "I am afraid that a point will come where I won't be able to sing. And, I wouldn't want to do that. I think the audiences deserve respect. It's time for me to let the younger people go further."
Mouskouri's career started in the 1950s in her native Greece. She studied voice at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens, winning numerous music prizes, which helped launch her career. She's recorded more than 1,500 songs in a dozen languages in various styles, and sold more than 300 million records.
In a fitting conclusion, Mouskouri's final emotion-filled goodbye concert will take place in Athens next spring.
"I started to sing very early in life, and this year I just completed five decades," the 71-year-old said. "I love music. But, time has gone by, and my children now are the same age when I was already very popular."
The singer, known for wearing trademark dark-rimmed glasses, says Canada has always been one of her favourite places to perform. At one point, her manager was Canadian, and he had her touring like a Canuck. Every 18 months, she would tour either Eastern or Western Canada.
"I travelled Canada in a way very few artists did," she said "So, I had this impression I was living in Canada, and it was wonderful."
While many of her audience members are fans who have been there for all of her career, she has also seen younger people coming out to say their farewells. Mouskouri said her younger fans usually tell her how their parents would listen to her.
"It brings satisfaction to me that the music brought pleasure to the people who heard me, and even their children remembered," she said. "This is my reward."
dlisk@hfxnews.ca
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今サヨナラコンサートが行われている、カナダからハリファックスのニュースをご紹介します♪
6月8日公演でした♪
Mouskouri on farewell tour to say thank you
DEAN LISK
Cher liked it so much, she keeps doing it and doing it.
But, Nana Mouskouri - that other singer with the raven hair parted down the centre - says this concert tour is her last one.
"I am not going to do that," Mouskouri said. "I am going to be stubborn about it and say No. This is a way to say thank you, because one day I won't be able to say that."
The Greek-born chanteuse pays her final musical respects to Halifax on Friday with a performance at the Metro Centre. It is part of a farewell world tour Mouskouri has been undertaking to officially say goodbye to her fans before retreating behind the scenes.
"I can sing well still, but I have started thinking, 'How long can it last?'" she asks on the phone from her home in Geneva. "I am afraid that a point will come where I won't be able to sing. And, I wouldn't want to do that. I think the audiences deserve respect. It's time for me to let the younger people go further."
Mouskouri's career started in the 1950s in her native Greece. She studied voice at the Hellenic Conservatory in Athens, winning numerous music prizes, which helped launch her career. She's recorded more than 1,500 songs in a dozen languages in various styles, and sold more than 300 million records.
In a fitting conclusion, Mouskouri's final emotion-filled goodbye concert will take place in Athens next spring.
"I started to sing very early in life, and this year I just completed five decades," the 71-year-old said. "I love music. But, time has gone by, and my children now are the same age when I was already very popular."
The singer, known for wearing trademark dark-rimmed glasses, says Canada has always been one of her favourite places to perform. At one point, her manager was Canadian, and he had her touring like a Canuck. Every 18 months, she would tour either Eastern or Western Canada.
"I travelled Canada in a way very few artists did," she said "So, I had this impression I was living in Canada, and it was wonderful."
While many of her audience members are fans who have been there for all of her career, she has also seen younger people coming out to say their farewells. Mouskouri said her younger fans usually tell her how their parents would listen to her.
"It brings satisfaction to me that the music brought pleasure to the people who heard me, and even their children remembered," she said. "This is my reward."
dlisk@hfxnews.ca
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Nana News ,from Ottawa Sun, June 4
先日のオタワでのニュースにつづいての記事です。同じ記者の記事で、内容はかなり重複しています
Ottawa Sun から
Mon, June 4, 2007
Ending on a high noteREVIEW: Nana Mouskouri
By ANN MARIE MCQUEEN
The National Arts Centre hosted some major old school entertainment last night, as enduring Greek songstress Nana Mouskouri captivated a devoted, nearly full house of fans.
Mouskouri, who arrived in Ottawa Saturday and must surely have wondered at a normally staid city engulfed in hockey madness, has made the capital one of only two Canadians stops on her sweeping world farewell tour.
A four-year farewell tour, actually, for the 73-year-old, known for her powerful pipes and ever-present dark-rimmed glasses, begun back in 2004 and set to wrap up next year.
The two-and-a-half hour show began with a video montage showing Mouskouri morph from bright-eyed, slim-waisted ingenue back in the 1960s to the well seasoned, sequined caftan-wearing performer of today.
HISTORIC SPOTS
There were shots of her on tour with Harry Belafonte and massive concerts of her own later on at some of Athens' most historic spots; even footage of her brief stint in the European Parliament. With more than four decades of material, thousands of songs in a variety of languages, and hundreds of millions of records sold, Mouskouri's career is a marvel by any standards.
She stepped on stage clad in white, launching right into I'll Remember You. A stirring rendition of Love Changes Everything set the tone for the evening.
"Singing has been very important for me," she told the crowd. "I believe most of you must know I started singing very young, because my parents used to say it was the only thing I could do. I could sing and I could cry."
In between old favourites, Mouskouri talked about her upbringing, introducing a string of songs in French her mother, also a chanteuse, taught her as a young girl.
A jet-setting philanthropist years before Angelina Jolie made it fashionable, Mouskouri spoke of her work with UNICEF -- which she will do again today when she addresses the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa at the Ottawa Congress Centre -- and her hopes for the children under the program's care.
Time will tell if Mouskouri sweeps back through town a few years down the road -- when it comes to aging musicians, farewell doesn't always mean goodbye -- but her intention is to bow out gracefully, and that she did last night.
Though I am not a fan of Mouskouri's tendency to hit sharp, startling high notes or indulge in excessive vibrato (and her cover of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now left much to be desired) her crowd was clearly enthralled with her.
日本語への自動翻訳はこちら
Ottawa Sun から
Mon, June 4, 2007
Ending on a high noteREVIEW: Nana Mouskouri
By ANN MARIE MCQUEEN
The National Arts Centre hosted some major old school entertainment last night, as enduring Greek songstress Nana Mouskouri captivated a devoted, nearly full house of fans.
Mouskouri, who arrived in Ottawa Saturday and must surely have wondered at a normally staid city engulfed in hockey madness, has made the capital one of only two Canadians stops on her sweeping world farewell tour.
A four-year farewell tour, actually, for the 73-year-old, known for her powerful pipes and ever-present dark-rimmed glasses, begun back in 2004 and set to wrap up next year.
The two-and-a-half hour show began with a video montage showing Mouskouri morph from bright-eyed, slim-waisted ingenue back in the 1960s to the well seasoned, sequined caftan-wearing performer of today.
HISTORIC SPOTS
There were shots of her on tour with Harry Belafonte and massive concerts of her own later on at some of Athens' most historic spots; even footage of her brief stint in the European Parliament. With more than four decades of material, thousands of songs in a variety of languages, and hundreds of millions of records sold, Mouskouri's career is a marvel by any standards.
She stepped on stage clad in white, launching right into I'll Remember You. A stirring rendition of Love Changes Everything set the tone for the evening.
"Singing has been very important for me," she told the crowd. "I believe most of you must know I started singing very young, because my parents used to say it was the only thing I could do. I could sing and I could cry."
In between old favourites, Mouskouri talked about her upbringing, introducing a string of songs in French her mother, also a chanteuse, taught her as a young girl.
A jet-setting philanthropist years before Angelina Jolie made it fashionable, Mouskouri spoke of her work with UNICEF -- which she will do again today when she addresses the Kiwanis Club of Ottawa at the Ottawa Congress Centre -- and her hopes for the children under the program's care.
Time will tell if Mouskouri sweeps back through town a few years down the road -- when it comes to aging musicians, farewell doesn't always mean goodbye -- but her intention is to bow out gracefully, and that she did last night.
Though I am not a fan of Mouskouri's tendency to hit sharp, startling high notes or indulge in excessive vibrato (and her cover of Joni Mitchell's Both Sides Now left much to be desired) her crowd was clearly enthralled with her.
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mike brant and nana mouskouri,2,YouTubeから♪
mike brant and nana mouskouri,2,YouTubeから♪
4：48～5:48の間にナナの姿が見えます！
1971 BBC show of Nana and Mike Brant singing Erev Shel Shoshanim in
Hebrew
From: nadinadinadi
MIKE BRANT T.V.1
נערך והועלה לצפייה ע"... MIKE BRANT T.V.1
נערך והועלה לצפייה ע"י
שון שון מייקלס,חבר אתר תפוז
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4：48～5:48の間にナナの姿が見えます！
1971 BBC show of Nana and Mike Brant singing Erev Shel Shoshanim in
Hebrew
From: nadinadinadi
MIKE BRANT T.V.1
נערך והועלה לצפייה ע"... MIKE BRANT T.V.1
נערך והועלה לצפייה ע"י
שון שון מייקלס,חבר אתר תפוז
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Nana Mouskouri- Old Toys train - in french song、YouTubeから♪
Nana Mouskouri- Old Toys train - in french song、YouTubeから♪
素晴らしい♪♪♪
From: luisarmandodiazfelix
una de las mejores y mas hermosas
melo... una de las mejores y mas hermosas
melodias de un angel con nombre
Nana Mouskouri.
Old toys trains... in french..
Esto es la musica, el alimento del
alma, el alimento del espiritu.
es un honor el compartir esto con el
mundo. (more) (less)
Category Travel & Places
Tags: old toys trains french nana mouskouri
素晴らしい♪♪♪
From: luisarmandodiazfelix
una de las mejores y mas hermosas
melo... una de las mejores y mas hermosas
melodias de un angel con nombre
Nana Mouskouri.
Old toys trains... in french..
Esto es la musica, el alimento del
alma, el alimento del espiritu.
es un honor el compartir esto con el
mundo. (more) (less)
Category Travel & Places
Tags: old toys trains french nana mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri -De Colores- Quila, Sinaloa view、YouTubeから♪
Nana Mouskouri -De Colores- Quila, Sinaloa view、YouTubeから♪
映像はイメージです♪
From: luisarmandodiazfelix
Una de las mas hermosas melodias
en la... Una de las mas hermosas melodias
en la voz de la Sra. Mouskouri, para
adornar el Valle del Rio San Lorenzo.
Quila, una ciudad en el Corazon del
Valle del Rio San Lorenzo, con su
Parroquia de Nuestra Sra. De La Candelaria, La Reina de Quila.
La Virgencita mas milagrosa de Sinaloa.
Cada dia 2 de Febrero, miles y miles
de gentes de todos lugares se reunen
en esta Ciudad para rendirle pleitesia
a la Reina de Quila.
Nra. Sra. De La Candelaria.
Esta hermosa melodia y estas imagenes son un honor muy grande el compartir
este video con el mundo.
D E C O L O R E S
De colores,
De colores se visten los campos
En la primavera,
De colores,
De colores son los pajaritos
Que vienen de afuera,
De colores,
De colores es el arcoiris
Que vemos lucir,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi.
Canta el gallo,
Canta el gallo con el
Quiri, quiri, quiri, quiri, qui
La gallina,
La gallina con el
Cara, cara, cara, cara cara
Los polluelos,
Los polluelos con el
Pio, pio, pio, pio, pi
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi
Hecho con mucho orgullo Sinaloense
This is T.Q.M. F. M. in live
broadcasting for you ..... (more) (less)
Category Travel & Places
Tags: Nana Mouskouri
de colores quila sinaloa mexico eldorado
映像はイメージです♪
From: luisarmandodiazfelix
Una de las mas hermosas melodias
en la... Una de las mas hermosas melodias
en la voz de la Sra. Mouskouri, para
adornar el Valle del Rio San Lorenzo.
Quila, una ciudad en el Corazon del
Valle del Rio San Lorenzo, con su
Parroquia de Nuestra Sra. De La Candelaria, La Reina de Quila.
La Virgencita mas milagrosa de Sinaloa.
Cada dia 2 de Febrero, miles y miles
de gentes de todos lugares se reunen
en esta Ciudad para rendirle pleitesia
a la Reina de Quila.
Nra. Sra. De La Candelaria.
Esta hermosa melodia y estas imagenes son un honor muy grande el compartir
este video con el mundo.
D E C O L O R E S
De colores,
De colores se visten los campos
En la primavera,
De colores,
De colores son los pajaritos
Que vienen de afuera,
De colores,
De colores es el arcoiris
Que vemos lucir,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi.
Canta el gallo,
Canta el gallo con el
Quiri, quiri, quiri, quiri, qui
La gallina,
La gallina con el
Cara, cara, cara, cara cara
Los polluelos,
Los polluelos con el
Pio, pio, pio, pio, pi
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi,
Y por eso los grandes amores
De muchos colores me gustan a mi
Hecho con mucho orgullo Sinaloense
This is T.Q.M. F. M. in live
broadcasting for you ..... (more) (less)
Category Travel & Places
Tags: Nana Mouskouri
de colores quila sinaloa mexico eldorado
Ensenada y La Bufadora View,YouTubeから♪
Ensenada y La Bufadora View,YouTubeから♪
映像はイメージです♪♪
From: luisarmandodiazfelix
La Perla de la California Republic Me... La Perla de la California Republic Mexican,
la Perla Cachanilla, La Ciudad y Puerto de Ensenada y su
maravilla Natural Unica en America
La Bufadora.
En Punta Banda, Baja California Mexico.
Una hermosa y progresista ciudad
con un clima unico, con un ambiente
unico y con sus gentes.
Esto es Mexico.
Wellcome to Mexico
Wellcome to Ensenada
Baja California Mexico (more) (less)
Category Travel & Places
Tags: Ensenada la bufadora baja california bc al bano romina povwer sharazan nana mouskouri old toys trains
映像はイメージです♪♪
From: luisarmandodiazfelix
La Perla de la California Republic Me... La Perla de la California Republic Mexican,
la Perla Cachanilla, La Ciudad y Puerto de Ensenada y su
maravilla Natural Unica en America
La Bufadora.
En Punta Banda, Baja California Mexico.
Una hermosa y progresista ciudad
con un clima unico, con un ambiente
unico y con sus gentes.
Esto es Mexico.
Wellcome to Mexico
Wellcome to Ensenada
Baja California Mexico (more) (less)
Category Travel & Places
Tags: Ensenada la bufadora baja california bc al bano romina povwer sharazan nana mouskouri old toys trains
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