10/21/2007
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Nana News from www.chorleycitizen.co.uｋ
Nana Mouskouri
By Jemma Dobson
Nana Mouskouri has been named the most successful female singer in history, having sold over 350 million records worldwide, outselling The Beatles and Elvis combined. Now, after 50 years in the business, she speaks to us as she decides to finally hang up her microphone.
BEHIND those trademark glasses there is a voice that is one of the most notable in history.
Now a 73-year-old grandmother, Nana Mouskouri has released yet another album and is touring the world again - but this time it's her farewell tour.
It was in 1961 that Nana recorded her most famous song, The White Rose of Athens, and her mastery of languages - she speaks half a dozen - ensured that her popularity grew to global proportions.
She even represented Luxembourg in the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest.
Apart from the languages she can actually speak, she has also recorded tracks in Japanese, Korean, Hebrew and Welsh, with a total of over 1,350 songs performed in 100 concerts a year for nearly 50 years.
advertisement"I can remember the first time I thought that I had made it was when I was performing at Royal Albert Hall in London and the organiser came up to me as I was about to go on stage and said Well done, it's a sell-out - that is quite a rare achievement.' I was so happy. This last tour is really a chance for me to say thank you to all my fans and, as best I can, in their language too," she said.
To date she has received more than 300 gold, platinum and diamond records and her breathtaking voice is known and loved by millions across the world.
But it was rather by chance that Nana turned to singing.
It was, in fact, her sister Jenny who wanted to study classical song at the conservatory in her native Athens. But one day a lecturer invited Nana to try it herself. She auditioned and was accepted at once for the unusual qualities of her voice. But instead of restricting herself to classical music, Nana appeared in cafes, singing folklore and jazz, advancing to the status of the "new voice" on the musical scene of Athens of the 1950s. This kind of success did not make her popular with everyone and she was expelled from the conservatory. It was a fateful event, which in hindsight was to pave the path for her success.
And as if singing wasn't enough, Nana also travels the world as a UNICEF ambassador and has made personal donations to help the lives of children in almost every country she has visited. She has also served her native country at the European Parliament by championing the rights of women and children.
And it is these projects she plans to concentrate on when she retires next spring, after the five continent tour concludes in Ireland.
She added: "I want to concentrate on my charity work and leave all the energetic performing to the younger ones now. It is time. I have learned so much and experienced so many wonderful places and cultures. I've been lucky enough to travel and I'll still be travelling. I have homes in Paris, Geneva and Athens.
"But I had fall a few years back which made me realise I am getting a bit old for all this now. I'll leave my singing for the ears of my new grandchild and anything else which doesn't include touring."
l The British leg of Nana Mouskouri's Farewell Tour comes to Manchester's Bridgewater Hall on Wednesday, October 31. For tickets contact the box office on 0161 907 9000 or log on to bridgewater-hall.co.uk
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10/19/2007
Nana News from belfasttelegraph.co.uk
Nana in tribute to 'Big Jim' ahead of her farewell concert
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By Eddie McIlwaine
Diva Nana Mouskouri (73) is due in Belfast on Sunday on her farewell tour before retiring from the stage.
And the singing legend has revealed that she thinks Ulster promoter Jim Aiken, who died eight months ago, was a man in a million.
Mouskouri says so in her autobiography Memoirs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £18.99) which will be published here to coincide with her concert at the Waterfront Hall.
And her respect for Big Jim, whose passing last February after a brief battle with cancer saddened the province, shines through.
"Infatuated with artists and performers and capable of spending the night glueing posters to walls if he felt the publicity people hadn't done their job," she writes.
But in the next sentence Nana showed that she didn't really know Jim all that well at all.
Describing her first visit to Belfast in the troubled year of 1972 she relates: "Jim insisted on being my driver and while I was there he practically gave up smoking and drinking whiskey to avoid offending me."
What Miss Mouskouri isn't aware of is that Jim Aiken was teetotal all his life.
But that visit in '72 to sing at the King's Hall definitely left an impression on Miss Mouskouri.
She writes about the checkpoints she was stopped at on her way from the airport, the body searches of her audience, the terrible acoustics - and the cold.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007
By Eddie McIlwaine
Diva Nana Mouskouri (73) is due in Belfast on Sunday on her farewell tour before retiring from the stage.
And the singing legend has revealed that she thinks Ulster promoter Jim Aiken, who died eight months ago, was a man in a million.
Mouskouri says so in her autobiography Memoirs (Weidenfeld & Nicolson £18.99) which will be published here to coincide with her concert at the Waterfront Hall.
And her respect for Big Jim, whose passing last February after a brief battle with cancer saddened the province, shines through.
"Infatuated with artists and performers and capable of spending the night glueing posters to walls if he felt the publicity people hadn't done their job," she writes.
But in the next sentence Nana showed that she didn't really know Jim all that well at all.
Describing her first visit to Belfast in the troubled year of 1972 she relates: "Jim insisted on being my driver and while I was there he practically gave up smoking and drinking whiskey to avoid offending me."
What Miss Mouskouri isn't aware of is that Jim Aiken was teetotal all his life.
But that visit in '72 to sing at the King's Hall definitely left an impression on Miss Mouskouri.
She writes about the checkpoints she was stopped at on her way from the airport, the body searches of her audience, the terrible acoustics - and the cold.
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