11/04/2007
Nana News from N.A.N.A.International Fan Club HP
Nana News from N.A.N.A.International Fan Club HP
Nana, Royale à Albert Hall
En ce matin du 29 octobre 2007, le soleil londonien ravive les couleurs automnales de Hyde Park et de Kensington Gardens. Les fameux écureuils gris s’agitent autour de la statue de Peter Pan. La pluie d’hier n’est plus qu’un mauvais souvenir (Why worry, there should be sunshine after rain). La statue du monument érigé en l’honneur du prince Albert, époux de la reine Victoria, rayonne de tous ses feux dorés. Face à elle, les briques polychromes du Royal Albert Hall, prennent leur couleur ocre. Le bâtiment, tout en rondeur, me rappelle le Cirkusbygningen de Copenhague où Nana a chanté en janvier 2 003, mais ici il est plus imposant et plus majestueux.
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Nana News from corusnouvelles.com
Nana News from corusnouvelles.com
Arts et spectacles | Dimanche 04 nov 2007 | 01:40
Nana Mouskouri entame son depart de la scene apres 50 ans de carriere
Par Danièle L. Gauthier, LA PRESSE CANADIENNE
MONTREAL - Que de chemin parcouru depuis qu'elle a quitté sa Grèce natale. Nana Mouskouri, depuis 40 ans, parcourt le monde où partout on l'accueille avec bonheur. Mais cette fois, elle entame une tournée mondiale pour faire ses adieux à tous ceux qui l'ont aimée.
Elle qui fut toujours très discrète, a décidé, alors qu'elle s'apprête à quitter la vie publique, d'offrir son autobiographie à ses admirateurs, "La fille de la chauve-souris", une brique de plus de 400 pages qui vient tout juste d'être publiée. Elle y raconte son enfance, durant les années de guerre, et dévoile la passion que son père cultivait pour le jeu. Elle qui fut déchirée entre son amour pour la musique et les chansons populaires aura vendu quelque 400 millions d'albums réunissant plus de 1500 chansons interprétées dans une dizaine de langues.
Ce dimanche, elle est de passage chez Michel Drucker à "Vivement dimanche", accompagnée de sa fille Lenou, qui chante également, et de Monica Belluci, Jacques Dutronc, James Blunt, Frédéric Mitterrand et Alain Corneau, à 20h, sur TV5.
A la recherche du rêve perdu
Chez les Atikamekw, les temps sont difficiles. Effroyable le nombre de suicides qui surviennent dans cette communauté. Au point où l'intervenante Mélanie Pétiquay a voulu poser un geste d'urgence pour venir en aide aux jeunes qui ont perdu le goût de vivre.
Victimes de violence familiale, d'abus sexuels, de toxicomanie, devant l'absence de projets de vie, ils ont perdu l'espoir en des jours meilleurs. Pour tenter de renverser la vapeur, Mélanie recrute des jeunes répartis dans différents secteurs de la communauté afin de les former de manière à ce qu'ils puissent déceler les candidats susceptibles de mettre fin à leurs jours pour leur venir en aide rapidement. On les appelle les pairs-aidants. Et les désespérés sont nombreux à ressentir l'abandon, la négligence, le rejet.
On tente également un rapprochement avec les adultes. Certains ont entrepris d'instruire ces jeunes sur les traditions des Premières Nations, de leur faire vivre des expériences en forêt et, en se réappropriant leur culture, les jeunes semblent retrouver l'équilibre et le goût de vivre. "Le Pacte", le lundi 5 novembre, au Canal Vie.
Riches et malheureux
Le documentaire "Grandeur et misère de la loterie" présente le cas de quelques nouveaux millionnaires dont la vie s'est transformée en cauchemar. Gagner 40, 50, et même 315 millions de dollars ouvre la porte à toutes les fantaisies imaginables. On achète des voitures, des propriétés de rêve mais surtout, on se croit devenu invincible. On suit, entre autres, le cas d'un homme qui adorait sa petite-fille. Il lui a offert tout ce qu'elle désirait et davantage. Malheureusement, la jeune fille a sombré dans la drogue et est décédée d'une surdose. A "Docu-D", ce dimanche, 19h, au Canal D.
A "Questions de société", on remet la pertinence de la circoncision à l'ordre du jour. L'enfant mâle a-t-il droit à l'intégrité de son corps jusqu'à ce qu'il soit en âge d'en disposer à sa guise? Parce que règle générale, cette pratique est liée à d'antiques coutumes religieuses. Au Québec, seulement 3 % des petits garçons sont circoncis et on apprend que dans 80 % des pays du monde, la circoncision n'est pratiquée qu'en cas de stricte nécessité. "Couper court", le lundi 5 novembre à Télé-Québec, soulève une réflexion sur une pratique que certains considèrent banale alors que d'autres la qualifient de rétrograde et d'inadmissible.
Produire du parmesan c'est être investi d'une mission sur terre. Avec "Tout un fromageà le parmesan", on suit les étapes de la fabrication du "parmegiano reggiano", qui commence bien évidemment, par une stricte sélection des vaches pour se terminer dans une banque où on entrepose 290 000 meules durant au moins un an. A tous les 10 jours, un appareil est mis en marche pour tourner les fromages répartis sur des étagères à perte de vue, étape essentielle à l'affinage. Viennent ensuite les "goûteurs" qui testent de la valeur de la meule car si celle-ci présente quelque défaut, elle ne portera pas le sceau du parmesan, c'est une question d'honneur. A ARTV, "Destination ARTE", ce dimanche, 19h30.
A RADIO-CANADA: suite au roman qu'il a écrit, Solange (Marie-Hélène Thibault) est perplexe quant à l'orientation sexuelle de son fils Napoléon (Jeremy T. Gaudet). A "Providence", le mardi 6 novembre, 20h.
A TVA: qu'est-ce qui retient Bernard (Patrice Godin) de contacter son père maintenant qu'il a obtenu son numéro de téléphone, à "Destinées", le mercredi 7 novembre, 20h. Chez "Les Soeurs Elliot", Eugénie (Julie Perreault) se fait attaquer dans son appartement. Comment s'en tirera-t-elle?
A TELE-QUEBEC: à "Gang de rue", Dan Bigras prend la défense de "squeegees" qui pratiquent un métier illégal. Comme ils n'acquittent pas le montant des contraventions qu'ils accumulent, ils doivent donc purger des peines d'emprisonnement. Mais pourquoi cette activité est-elle illégale? "Opération: J'mords pas, j'nettoie", le mardi 6 novembre, 19h.
A TV5: il sera question de sport au "3950" ce samedi, 19h. Luck Mervil a réuni autour de sa table David Gill (coureur de fond), Lisa-Marie Breton (hockey féminin), Joachim Alcine (boxeur), Bruny Surin (sprinter), Chantal Petitclerc (course en fauteuil roulant), Bruno Pelletier (chanteur et karatéka), Albert Jacquard (philosophe et généticien, auteur de "Halte aux jeux"). A "Vie privée, vie publique", on mesure l'impact des rumeurs, vraies ou fausses dans la vie de certains dont Gérard Lenorman qui révèle d'ailleurs le secret de sa naissance. A cette discussion suit une entrevue avec Sylvie Vartan qui vient de perdre sa mère, le lundi 5 novembre, 20h.
AU CANAL D: là où il y a des terrains de golf, il risque d'y avoir une augmentation du cancer infantile. Il semble que ce serait dû aux pesticides utilisés pour l'entretien des pelouses. C'est ce qui se produit à l'Île-Bizard où les citoyens ont convaincu les autorités de changer la réglementation. "Mort aux pesticides! (Île-Bizard)" à "Toxique", le lundi 5 novembre, 20h.
SERGE LAMA et Nana Mouskouri -Parle moi(1979),YouTubeから♪
From: rogerio8arroso
Uma raridade com trinta anos.
Nana Mouskouri et Charles Aznavour - 3 Songs,again ,from YouTube
Nana News from pollstar.com
Nana Says Farewell To Europe
Saturday, Nov 3, 2007 4:14AM
Nana Mouskouri's October 25 appearance at St. David's Hall in Cardiff, Wales, marked the start of the European leg of her farewell tour.
After a career that's lasted four decades, she's decided to say goodbye to live shows - and maybe the trademark black horn-rimmed specs - to concentrate on her family and her humanitarian work. She found fame via the Greek national song contest and later became something of a patron saint of the Eurovision Song Contest, first representing Luxembourg in 1963 because her native land didn't enter because it didn't have television. She made a guest appearance at the 2006 contest in Athens, the first time and only time it was held in Greece. Over the course of her career she's sold a reported 300 million copies of her 450 albums, earning 230 gold and platinum discs worldwide. She was due to play further U.K. shows in Gateshead, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham, before heading off to Germany and mainland Europe. The 73-year-old star will start in Saarbrucken in Germany, where the world first took notice of her commercial potential. Her German-language version of "White Rose From Athens" sold more than a million copies. Mouskouri was appointed as a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador in 1993, undertaking a mission to visit children in Bosnia. The following year she was elected as a member of the European parliament, representing the right wing Greek New Democracy party. She claims she didn't enjoy politics and only served one term.
11/03/2007
From PEARL'S Site,Entry for 06 October 2007
Nana News form telemelody.vox.com/
Nana News form telemelody.vox.com/
Nana Mouskouri récompensée
Hier soir, sur la scène du Royal Albert Hall de Londres, la chanteuse Nana Mouskouri a reçu des mains de Pascal Nègre (président d'Universal Music) un Disque d'Or exceptionnel. Cette récompense symbolique couronne les 50 ans de carrière de Nana, qui a vendu 350 millions de disques dans le monde !
D'autres chiffres qui forcent le respect : 1550 chansons enregistrées en 12 langues ; 100 albums sortis depuis ses débuts en 1958.
Nana Mouskouri a été distinguée l'an dernier par le Grand Prix de la chanson française à l'étranger décerné par la SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique).
Cette belle reconnaissance survient dans le cadre de sa tournée d'adieu, qui passe par l'Europe et l'Amérique du Sud. Un ultime concert est programmé à Athènes en 2008.
La chanteuse, qui vient de publier une autobiographie intitulée « La Fille de la chauve-souris » (Editions Xo), sera prochainement l'invitée de Melody de Star, sur Télé Melody.
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News from womenslens.blogspot.com
News from womenslens.blogspot.com
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Nana Mouskouri récompensée pour l'ensemble de sa carrière à Londres
La chanteuse Nana Mouskouri a reçu, lundi soir à Londres, un disque d'or exceptionnel couronnant 50 ans de carrière, à l'occasion d'un ultime concert donné dans la capitale britannique dans le cadre de sa tournée mondiale d'adieu, a indiqué à l'AFP à Paris son agent.
Cette récompense, qui marque aussi 350 millions de disques vendus (simples et albums), 1.550 chansons enregistrées en douze langues et 100 albums depuis ses débuts en 1958, lui a été remise par Pascal Nègre, président d'Universal Music, sur la scène du Royal Albert Hall.
Avant l'Opéra de Paris le 24 novembre, Nana Mouskouri qui a fêté son 73e anniversaire le 13 octobre, se produira à Manchester (31/10), Glasgow (1/11), Birmingham (3/11), Sarrebruck (15/11) et Genève (20/11) dans le cadre du "Farewell Tour". Des concerts sont également prévus en Espagne, en Amérique du Sud. Un ultime concert est programmé à Athènes en 2008.
Distinguée l'an dernier par le Grand prix de la chanson française à l'étranger décerné par la SACEM (Société des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs de Musique), la chanteuse vient de publier chez XO Editions une autobiographie intitulée "La Fille de la Chauve-souris".
Nana News from telegraph.co.uk
Nana News from telegraph.co.uk
The real stars are beyond the need for hype
By Sam Leith
Last Updated: 12:01am GMT 03/11/2007
Who is the most successful female recording artist of all time? I'll give you one guess. No, tell you what. I'll give you three guesses. No. Five. And I'll bet you still don't get it. You'll probably say "Madonna" first. You'll be wrong. Then you'll groan, and say: "Celine Dion." You'll still be wrong. You'll look crafty, and say: "Maria Callas." Nope. "Barbra Streisand!" you'll exclaim, slapping your forehead as if it were a thigh. I'll put on my smuggest expression. "Bonnie Langford?" you'll suggest, defeated. And you will, amazingly, be wrong again.
And that is why this fact, this sublime piece of pub-quiz trivia, is my favourite discovery of the month. I've tried it on everyone ? even my music-obsessed, snorkel-parka-wearing, quiz champion friend Andy.
And even Andy, from the unthinkable depths of his fur-lined hood, ventured: "Celine Dion?"
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Try it on your friends. Not one, not one of them, will say: "Nana Mouskouri."
Then tell them that that is, in fact, the answer. "Nana MousKOURI?" they will exclaim, before muttering: "Blow me. Nana bleedin' Mouskouri." Or, if they are under 30, they will say: "Who?"
And yet if the "Greek with the squeak" has sold more than 300 million records, recorded more than 1,500 songs in more languages than most of us speak, let alone sing in, served in public life as an MEP, spent the past two years on a farewell tour and last week sold out the Albert Hall to play her last ever London concert… if all of this is true, and to the best of my knowledge it is, don't you think we'd see her on the telly, or read about her in the newspapers, a tiny bit more?
For me, her name conjures the image of her ? with those heavy black 1970s specs, ironed-straight, centre-parted 1970s hair and russet-coloured 1970s polo-neck ? that adorned the grey 1970s eight-track cartridge that fitted into my mum and dad's orange 1970s VW camper van.
For another of my colleagues, she was "the boring bit on Morecambe and Wise, wasn't she?"
The last time she was the subject of an article in this newspaper ? as opposed to a comic aside; she's mentioned as a lookalike for Bono and Ugly Betty ? was in 2001. And yet there she is, adored by millions and still performing. She has just (which is how I came to discover she was not only still alive, but the most successful etc) released her autobiography.
"Where are you going with this, Leith?" I hear you ask. "Why are you troubling my otherwise pleasant Saturday morning with your hare-brained ruminations on the injustice done to Nana Mouskouri by the lickspittle conspirators of the international media and their sickening running dogs Morecambe and Wise?"
Well, bear with me. I am meandering in the direction of a modestly proportioned point.
And this point is something along the lines that there are hundreds of Nanas out there.
There are hundreds of activities, or people, or areas of life that are all but completely invisible, and yet the popularity of which is enormous.
In part, this is attributable to the fact that the day-to-day output of the media tends to be run, on the whole, by university-educated men and women between 30 and 50.
They want to put out programmes and write articles about things that they are currently interested in, or remember with fondness, or reckon are cool, or wish they had been involved in at the time.
When people of my age and geekiness, for example, started finding their way into those jobs, suddenly the cinema screens and arts pages filled with tights-wearing comic-book heroes and Tolkien tropes.
Hallelujah! I thought.
Yet there remain these Nanas, as I shall designate them, that are all but ignored: either because they are uncool, or long enduring, or beloved of a different class or generation (younger as well as older ? I suspect computer games, for example, are five to 10 years off becoming as visible as they are popular).
What are the biggest Nanas of our day? Angling, I suppose, is an obvious one. Country music. South America. Bingo. Knitting. Goldfish ownership? Here ? as a representative of exactly the Nana-ignoring demographic I describe ? I start to struggle. Tunnock's caramel wafers?
Many Nanas, like Ms Mouskouri (I had the good fortune to meet her this week at a lunch in her honour, and she was lovely), seem perfectly content not to be on the cover of every magazine going.
Other Nanas may feel neglect as a keen injustice.
But they deserve a salute. And when ? in the manner of a wee boat bumping gently and, by surprise, against the protruding tip of an iceberg ? one runs up against a Nana, it's a useful reminder that the world is larger and more various than we often enough notice.
In recent years, Nana has taken to singing My Way on stage. She feels, one of her friends told me, that she's earned the right. Here's to her, and to Nanas everywhere.
Nana News form cbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/
Nov 2 2007
Music
Nana Mouskouri is taking her final bow as an artist. She talks to Alison Jones about her career.
The statistics are staggering. It is estimated she has sold more than 300 million records world wide. She has recorded 1,500 songs in 15 languages on 450 albums. And she has so many gold and platinum albums she'd need to apply for planning permission to build the wall to hold them all.
Yet Nana Mouskouri - who after 50 years as a singer is currently on a farewell world tour - could still give your Madonnas, your Britneys, your Marias and your Jennifers a lesson in humility.
She is the girl from Greece who was so dirt poor as a child that when friends came to tea, she would pray for fine weather so the water wouldn't come flooding through the walls of their pokey basement flat.
The same girl who when she grew up she was invited to dine with King Constantine and sit at the table of his aunt. That would be Aunt Elizabeth, otherwise known as the Queen of England.
The same girl who when Harry Belafonte heard her singing in the Eurovision song contest (back in the days when even Terry Wogan still took it seriously), he rang producer Quincy Jones begging for her number to book her as his professional partner.
It is almost impossible to comprehend just how highly regarded this woman, whose name for many of us just brings to mind a hazy impression of big square glasses and a centre parting, was by the musical world.
So high that when Frank Sinatra flew into Perth to begin an Australian tour in 1974 he was greeted by empty Tarmac. The media ignored his arrival because they were all at the press conference for the start of Nana's tour.→read more
Nana News form music.guardian.co.uk
Nana News form music.guardian.co.uk
Bridgewater Hall, Manchester
Friday November 2, 2007
The Guardian
Perhaps if Nana Mouskouri had been starting out today there would be merchandising stalls selling copies of her trademark glasses. It certainly seems like a missed marketing opportunity when the world's most famous spectacle wearer opens with Amazing Grace - "Was blind, but now I see" - and does not dedicate it to her optician.
However, Mouskouri has no need of such modern nonsense. Her soaring voice has shifted 350m records, making her the most successful female singer ever. At 73, her farewell tour visits so many countries she presumably wants to thank each record-buyer personally. With hair still centre-parted like a 1960s student, she doesn't look her age and only sounds it when her once powerful range seems like it has been wedged into a straitjacket. Her Greek music clapalongs sound like a rowdy Mediterranean restaurant.
11/02/2007
Lascia ChIo Pianga ,from Korean site♪
14曲目がLascia ChIo Pianga、私を泣かせて、ドラマ「天よ」のためにナナが新しく2005年に
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Nana Mouskouri／Royal Albert Hall ／29/10/07
なんとナナさんのロンドン公演の日本語の記事を発見♪ ちょっと淋しい記述もありましたが、、、、Asuka8105さんのSpaghetti alla Bottargaから♪♪♪
October 29, 2007
Nana Mouskouri in Royal Albert Hall
『彼女も７３歳ですものー。。それは◎×％＊＆＄＆＃よー』
ってな会話が公演前のざわついた会場で、ふっとした時に耳に入ってきた。
げわーーーーーーナナ・ムスクーリって７０歳代なんですか！！！
この情報に端を発し、他の驚き！を求めて、公演前に彼女情報を、他人の会話に
耳をダンボにする事によって、予備知識程度には得る事ができました。
今公演に合わせてロンドンに遊びにくるはずだった母は、ムスクーリファンで
そのおかげで彼女の曲はほとんど覚えているものの、彼女のキャリアや人生そのもの
なんて、まったく知らない私にはアリガタイ。
結局,ロンドン自体に来られなくなっってしまった母の代わりに、さして興味もない私が、
コンサートに行く事に。。。
（ファンの皆さん、ごめんなさい。。。。。）
往年の大スターのさよなら公演ですから、かなり前にチケットを予約したのに、
会場は空席がちらほら２。何だか前から頑張った自分がばからしくなり、そして、
満員御礼で締めくくる事が出来ない観客の私達！の不甲斐無さにファンでも
ないのに寂しさを感じてしまいました。
でもよく考えてみると、彼女自身が７３歳と言う事は、ファンも結構なご高齢！な訳で、
公演に足を運ぶだけでもひと苦労なのかー。
そう言えば、車いすの方や、杖をついている方、また誰かに付き添われている風な方多し！
観客についてもう１つ。ファンの多いフランスや母国のギリシャ人が多いのは分かるけど、
疑問が湧きました。イギリス人に限っては、殊の外、同性愛者が多いんですが、
どーしてでしょう？？？？？
彼女の曲の影響か、それとも、彼女はそれ系の活動家なのでしょうか？！
いずれにしても、公演が始まって空席のちらほら理由は分かったような。。。
私はCDでしか、曲を聴いた事がないものの、明らかに声が出なくなっている
＝歌手としては頂けなくなっていらっしゃるのです。（ご高齢ですからね！）
とは言ったものの、私にとっては最初で最後の ”生” ナナ・ムスクーリで、
トレードマークの黒ブチ眼鏡にストレートの黒髪に、
（黒毛はお染めになっていらっしゃるでしょう、勿論！）
ジュディ・オングばりの衣装をまとった彼女は、素敵なオーラに包まれていました。
また、ファンの方々にとっては、歌われる曲の一曲一曲が、往年の歌声で
思い出と一緒に頭の中をこだましている様で、実際の声のかすれは関係ないといった
感じに、観客皆が、気持ち良さそうにハミングしていました。
何だか分からないけど、ご利益のある物を観た感じです。とっても。
しかし、オノヨーコといい、ナナ・ムスクーリといい、７０歳代も、
まだまだ侮れない～！！
Nana Mouskouri／Royal Albert Hall ／29/10/07
Nana News from volksmusik-welt
Donnerstag, 1. November 2007
Die saarländische Europaabgeordnete Doris Pack übernimmt die Schirmherrschaft zu einem Benefizkonzert mit Nana Mouskouri am 15. November 2007 in Saarbrücken. Der Erlös des Konzerts ist für die Arbeit einer Europaschule in Bosnien & Herzegowina bestimmt.
Es ist das zweite Konzert dieser Art; bereits 1998 sang Nana Mouskouri in Saarbrücken, um Spenden zu sammeln für eine Europaschule in Bosnien. Gemeinsam mit Doris Pack brachte sie den damals gesammelten Betrag nach Bosnien und übergab ihn selbst vor Ort an die Schule."Ich freue mich sehr, dass sich Nana Mouskouri mit dem Konzert ein weiteres Mal für die Europaschule in Bosnien engagiert. Finanzielle Unterstützung wird für die dortige Arbeit dringend benötigt. Die Wunden, die ethnischen Vertreibungen hinterlassen haben, heilen auf Dauer nur, wenn Kinder der neuen Generation gemeinsam auf der Schulbank sitzen und ihre Verschiedenheit zu akzeptieren lernen" so Doris Pack.Quelle: Koch Universal Music / Stefan Kahe
From my guest book, thanks Yuen!
Nana News from eurovisionnews.blogspot.com
Nana News from eurovisionnews.blogspot.com
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Nana Mouskouri performed in London
To mark 45 years on stage the internationally-acclaimed star had initiated a four-year World Fairwell tour.
Her next stop was London where the star had performed to a sold-out crowd at the Royal Albert Hall on Monday 29 October.
The other dates:
01/11 Glasgow / Royal Concert Hall
03/11 Birmingham / Symphony Hall
15/11 Saarbrücken / Saarlandhalle (Germany)
17/11 Liège / Le forum (Belgium)
18/11 Esch / Rockhal (Luxembourg)
20/11 Geneva / Arena (Switzerland)
24/11 Paris / Opera Garnier (France)
Nana Mouskouri has sold more than 300 million records internationally, recording about 1,500 songs in 15 languages on 450 albums.
source:lgr.co.uk
Nana News from manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Nana Mouskouri @ Bridgewater Hall
Stuart Greer
1/11/2007
Live reviews
I wonder what it must feel like, touring the world for 40 years, standing on hundreds of different stages, singing to adoring audiences of all creeds and colours, and then to finally decide enough is enough. That thought could not have been that far away from Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri as she performed to an adoring audience in Manchester for the last time.
At 73-years of age Nana is in the midst of her farewell tour: she has finally decided to hang up her Tsarouhias. But, not until she’s finished belting out some of the classics that made her Greece’s classiest export and demonstrating why she has won over so many with her distinctive vocal style which resonates somewhere between a clinical soprano and a sultry jazz club singer.
Nana arrives on stage wearing a glittering red two-piece and iconic spectacles. She soaks up the applause before opening with a soaring version of ‘Amazing Grace’.
What follows is two hours of an ageing singing star whose pure joy and escapism from singing eminates from every pore of her.
Raised in Crete during the time of Nazi occupation, Nana’s film projector father pushed her towards classical musical training, but her rebellious love of jazz lead her on another path. Later a meeting with Quincy Jones helped her on her way to selling an unthinkable 350 million albums.
Nana moves effortlessly through folk tunes like ‘Loch Lomond’ and ‘Song for Liberty’ into classical songs in French, Italian and German - only three languages in her linguistic armoury - before taking on renditions of pop songs like ‘Love Changes Everything’ and the ultra-smooth ‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes’.
There’s also time for her signature ‘White Rose Of Athens’ as she graciously receives yet another bouquet of flowers at her feet.
As you’d imagine there are points when Nana’s 73-year-old voice crackles to a halt and you feel yourself wondering if this last tour is a decade overdue, but rather than blush with embarrassment, Nana takes her shortcomings with a class and dignity.
Throughout the night she is brimming with gratitude for the years of attention and devotion from fans, and as she leaves the stage blowing kisses into the air, what’s clear is, this final performance is not so much as farewell, but thank you.
11/01/2007
Nana News form journallive.co.uk
Oct 27 2007 By James Watson, The Journal
One of the most successful female artists in history comes to The Sage Gateshead for the first time tonight. James Watson talks to singer Nana Mouskouri.
AFTER recording more than 1,500 songs in 15 languages, Nana Mouskouri is finally saying goodbye to the stage.
The Greek singer, who released her first song in 1957 and went on to sell more than 300 million records, is currently on her Farewell Tour, which comes to the North-East tonight.
“Nothing is forever,” she says. “I’ve been performing for 50 years and I’ve decided it’s time to say thank you to my audience.
“I’ve spent most of my life going from one stage to another and I’ve absolutely loved it, but you don’t always get the chance to stop and appreciate it.
“This tour is my chance to see all my fans one last time and say thank you for all the memories and emotions we’ve shared.
“I’m trying to visit as many countries as possible. It won’t be completely everywhere, but we’ve already been to Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Hong Kong, South America, and elsewhere.
“I still need to do China and Japan, and obviously I’m doing the UK and Ireland at the moment.
“I’m delighted to be at The Sage Gateshead this weekend as I’ve never been there before and it’s nice to play new venues.”
Nana’s farewell tour will culminate in her native Greece next year. She says it was always the obvious choice for her final show. “I come from Greece originally, so it felt natural to return to where I came from. The tour should be finished next summer and it will be good to be home again as it feels like I’ve been constantly travelling for the last 50 years – although I strongly believe life is about the journey, not the destination.”
Nana, who is now in her 70s, says she is looking forward to singing some of her favourite songs for audiences in the UK, but admits it is difficult to choose them.
“Different songs are important to the audience for different reasons and it is the same for me,” she says. “I try to tell my story through the songs and pass on their meaning to the audience.
“I think songs can be magical.”
She says: “I’ve been singing Over The Rainbow since I was a little girl, almost unconsciously, and the meaning of The Wizard of Oz has always held a special importance to me as I feel you need heart, courage, and a brain to go through life.
“Songs have been lessons for me and working with great songwriters like Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen and Neil Young, among others, has been very educating to me.
“People like Quincy Jones and Harry Belafonte were also very inspiring, while recording songs by the likes of Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles and The Rolling Stones was wonderful.
“I’ve always tried to make the most of my time with other artists and learn as much as possible.
“One of things I want to do now is pass on what I have learned to young people. I think it’s very important to have the opportunity to speak to young people and children and a lot of my humanitarian work is in that area.”
Nana was appointed a Unicef goodwill ambassador in 1993 and says that growing up during the Nazi occupation of Greece in the Second World War gave her the determination to use her fame to do good.
“Living under the Nazi occupation leaves a mark you can never lose completely. I was happy to escape with my family, but it will never be forgotten and I cannot be indifferent when I see suffering elsewhere.
“This is why I work with the UN. There is still so much poverty and oppression in the world and I think music and culture have very important roles to play.”
The singer currently lives in Switzerland, but has several homes elsewhere and says one of the benefits of retiring will be having a more settled existence. She says: “For years I have lived everywhere. Now I want to decide on one home. My children, who are both grown up now, will be happy about that. They both think its time for me to step aside while I’m still fit and well.”
Nana, who will be releasing an autobiography entitled The Night Owl’s Daughter next year, has often been referred to as the most successful female solo artist of all time, but insists she just wants to be remembered as someone loved in many countries.
“I cannot believe I’m the most successful, but I’m very proud to have sung in many countries, in many different languages and to have been loved around the world.”
Some clips news from Performing Songwriter, Issue No105
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By Bill Demain
………………Russia doesn’t need Mariah Carey. They’ve got Alla Pugacheva. Italy could take or leave Barbra Streisand. They’ve got Mina. And why would Japan bother with Bon Jovi when they’ve got a homegrown version in the B’z?
Americans like to flatter themselves by thinking they both invented and hold the patent on platinum-selling superstars. But since the rock era began, hundreds of millions of albums have been sold by artists whose names remain as obscure to most of us as those of 19th-century Swedish kings.
While Nana Mouskouri and Zamfir may ring a bell—thanks to late-night TV ads—how about Wei Wei, Elissa, Daler Mehndi and Gloria Trevi? Yet in their respective countries, these artists are revered as heroes—saints, even.
Many of these acts initially modeled themselves on Western counterparts—Mouskouri cites Ella Fitzgerald as her creative mentor—but they added international flair by pulling their own native music into the mix. Johnny Hallyday, a kind of Gallic Elvis, combined American rockabilly, French chanson (lyric-driven story songs) and an electric stage presence to sell millions of records. The late Ofra Haza crossed Yemenite folk and sacred music with electronic pop and was hailed as the “Madonna of the East.”
For more, get the latest Issue of Performing Songwriter, ISSUE No. 105
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Nana Mouskouri sets off on farewell tour after 40-year career
October 31, 2007
Posted by grhomeboy in MusicLife, MusicLife Greek.
It could have all been so different. Back in 1966, a young Nana Mouskouri, then relatively little known outside mainland Europe, embarked on a tour of the US with Harry Belafonte.
It was a big moment in her embryonic career. The calypso legend loved Nana’s voice but when it came to her choice of eyewear he was unequivocal, insisting she ditch the black horn-rimmed specs on stage. According to the fairytale legend that is her life story, Nana acceded to his demands but grew deeply unhappy. After two days of sadness it was her turn to deliver the ultimatum to Belafonte, love me, love my glasses. The glasses stayed.
Forty years on, 450 albums, 230 gold and platinum discs and more than 300 million records sold later, Nana Mouskouri took to the stage of St David’s Hall in Cardiff last week still sporting those famous spectacles to begin the first British night of her epic farewell tour.
She will perform before sell-out crowds in Gateshead, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham before decamping to Saarbrucken in Germany where the world first took notice of the commercial potential of the young Greek singer with the nightingale voice. It was there that her German language version of “White Rose from Athens” sold more than a million copies.
The Nana musical juggernaut has already rolled across the US, North America and Ireland this year before going to Britain. After touring mainland Europe, she will then head to Australia, Asia and South America in 2008 where her loyal army of fans are waiting to bid their ageless heroine with the jet black hair and trademark centre parting, a tearful adieu.
It is not bad going for a woman who turned 73 two weeks ago. Though still clearly in rude good health and at the top of her game Mouskouri insists that, after singing for 50 years, it is time to make way for younger performers.
There can be little doubt that few singers coming through today in this increasingly fickle world can expect to emulate the kind of musical longevity she has enjoyed. Nor in this fast-moving digital age, where pop stars must reinvent themselves every few months to stay in touch, can they hope to do so by sticking so closely to the geeky image and basic musical formula that have proved so incredibly popular for Mouskouri over the decades.
Nana was born into a close-knit family in Chania, Crete, moving to Athens at the age of three. The city was occupied by the Nazis for much of her childhood yet her father, a film projectionist, and her mother who taught her the native folk songs, worked hard to get her and her sister into the Hellenic Conservatoire.
She recalls how, by night, her dad used to slip away to fight with the Greek resistance against the German invaders. Times were tough as well as dangerous and despite the money running out she continued to have lessons though her teacher’s desire for her to be the next Maria Callas could not survive her nights at the city’s Zaki club where she learned how to sing like her new heroines Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Her route to fame was the Greek National song contest and Mouskouri was later to be something of the patron saint of the later Eurovision movement, first representing Luxembourg because her native land did not have television. She eventually made an emotional performance when the contest was finally held in Greece for the first time in 2006.
Marriage came along in 1961 and her fame spread to France and Germany before her first trip to New York with legendary impresario Quincy Jones. British audiences had to wait until 1968 when she made her first television appearances on Nana and Guests. At that time, however, the record shops were woefully unprepared and had to desperately seek out some of her records to satisfy the demands of her fans.
Yet the Nana story had another twist yet. In 1993 she was appointed as a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, undertaking a mission to visit children in Bosnia. The following year she was elected as a Member of the European Parliament, representing the right wing Greek New Democracy party. She claims not to have liked politics, “it dries your heart” she once said, though despite being heckled by her fellow Eurocrats for her apparent guilelessnes, she proved an effective communicator, even joining forces with her old Eurovision sparring partner Dana when she ran for the Irish Presidency. In 1998, Mouskouri came back to the UK, that time seeking the return of the Parthenon Marbles and campaigned across the world for women’s rights.
She served only one term as an MEP, returning to her Unicef work and making music. Having divorced her husband in the mid-70s, she lives with her partner Andre Chapelle and plans to dedicate the rest of her life to her family and her humanitarian work. While still wearing those glasses, of course.
.10/31/2007
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Nana News from Cristie's World
Tuesday, 30 October 2007
The Greek Goddess
As I stated earlier, I'm ready to go to the big and bright venues, far far away from the dark clubs and pubs, thank you very much. And there it was, our first gig at the Royal Albert Hall. Can we get any fancier than that may I ask you? It's impressive, trust me. The Royal Albert Hall, since its opening in 1871 the Royal Albert Hall has been the majestic venue for all great performances even often frequented by the members of the Royal family. The hall was largely built with funds subscribed by private individuals and operating under a Royal Charter, the Hall has fulfilled this role for over a century without public funding. It's a classical but superb building on the side of Hide Park and just fumes an air of high class but not the pompous kinda high class, more of an intimate and retro high class. You just can imagine yourself back in the days of the 19th century where the lords and ladies would visit the venue just to socialize with those whom were considered important. Ah, those would have been the days. Right, reality check now, we're in the 21st century and the venue has adapted itself quite smartly to the high technical standards of today.So today on our list was nobody less that Nana Mouskouri. She's doing this farewell concert tours of Europe, Australia, Asia, South America, the United States, and Canada. Farewell sounds a bit scary these days as all the old glories are just starting their come backs. But don't forget that Nana is already 73, so she's just saying goodbye gracefully. During an interview with The Australian newspaper, when asked why this would be her final concert series, Mouskouri said she wanted to retire on a high note. "I never thought that I would grow that old. It is better really to stop while you are standing well on your feet. I just want to be proud and in very good form and thank the audience for all this love", she said. Good on her!
She may have looked a bit older since the 70's where I remember her from but the time has had no effect on her voice. She still sounded the Nana Mouskouri from back in the days.
She used to work with people like Harry Belafonte and Quincy Jones but farewell tour is just her and a single white rose. It has something very powerful and also something very lonely. It brings a kind of sadness and I can't help thinking about her son who due too sheer embarrassment of resembling his mother he fled to America and changed his identity. I wonder if they ever reconciled?
Anyway, it was Nana night and we loved it.
10/30/2007
Nana News from www.thisislondon.co.uk/music
By John Aizlewood, Evening Standard 30.10.07
Now a venerable 73-year-old with suspiciously jet-black hair and a wardrobe of sparkly tent dresses seemingly designed by Dame Edna Everage, Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri has bowed to the inevitable and last night marked her final London appearance. That the film projectionist's daughter from Crete couldn't quite fill the Albert Hall, despite selling a staggering 350 million albums, suggests she's wise to go now.
However, the former MEP was departing neither quietly nor quickly, hence two sets, lasting nearly three hours. Backed by a bouzouki-free sextet, before an audience predominantly comprised of heterosexual Greeks and homosexual British, she sang in Greek, German, Italian, French (a fabulously dramatic version of Bob Dylan's A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall) and even English.
If reduced vocal capacity meant she never quite got to grips with Bridge Over Troubled Water, her opening assault on Amazing Grace was a showstopper before the show had really started. Attempting Kris Kristofferson's Me And Bobby McGee was endearingly bonkers, although not as endearingly bonkers as singing most of her signature White Rose Of Athens in German.
More eccentric still, in between accepting gifts of flowers (by the encore, the front of the stage looked like a roadside shrine to a recent traffic accident victim), she told a somewhat downbeat version of her life story, concentrating on her "years of sorrow". And, at the end, she tackled My Way, forgot most of the verses, flashed a well-turned calf and tottered into the twilight. We cannot possibly see her like again.
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- The Sage Gateshead
Trained as an opera singer and influenced by Ella Fitzgerald and Edith Piaf, Nana Mouskouri has had an extraordinary global career. In the 60s, she had a hit in the UK with My Colouring Book and won the Eurovision Song Contest: she also starred in the TV show, ‘Nana and Friends’, and released ‘Over and Over’, which spent almost two years in the UK charts. The 70s saw this success continue, and an expansion into folk and country repertoire: in the 80s she had another UK hit, Only Love, and has continued to tour and record: she has now decided to retire on a high note with this tour.
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Nana News from shieldsgazette.com/
Location: South Tyneside
Swan song for Nana
Farewell ... Nana Mouskouri.
By Terry Kelly
GREEK singing star Nana Mouskouri will serenade her Tyneside fans for the last time this month after deciding to call it a day.
She is preparing to bring down the curtain on a 50-year performing career, and her farewell tour includes an appearance at The Sage Gateshead.Listening to talk enthusiastically about her life and times, it's hard to believe she's now in her 70s.A familiar face on British TV in the 1960s and 1970s, Mouskouri has sold 230 million records, and recorded no fewer than 1,500 songs over the course of a singing career spanning more than half a century.The Greek singer's black glasses and shoulder-length hair are instantly recognisable to millions of fans worldwide.However, a broken ankle several years ago led to a three-month spell in hospital for Mouskouri, and that set her thinking about winding up her performing career.A farewell tour which started back in 2005 will reach Tyneside at the end of this month."After the accident, I was talking with my husband and started to think how I could say I love my fans as I step down from the stage," she said."This is the first time I've toured the UK for five or six years, but I've appeared in Newcastle many times before."My farewell tour will be a kind of retrospective. Each country I play is different, and I change my repertoire according to where I'm playing." Despite her impending exit from the live stage, Mouskouri is busier than ever, with a biographical memoir and new CDs due to be released to coincide with her goodbye tour.Backed by a five-piece band, she will be putting on a show reflecting the many strands of her musical
career, ranging from her early days as a jazz singer to folk and country material written by friends such as Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen.As well as her singing, Mouskouri has been prominent in politics in her homeland and was a Euro-MP from 1994 until 1999.However, as a committed pacifist, she felt unhappy about supporting military solutions and eventually resigned.Her desire to make a difference at an international level was underlined when she was appointed a Unicef goodwill ambassador in 1993, a role filled by Hollywood stars Audrey Hepburn before her and Angelina Jolie since. Mouskouri's first United Nations mission saw her travelling to Bosnia to see for herself the horrific effects of war on children there.Moved by the experience, she later staged several fundraising concerts for Bosnia.Music has remained an important part of her life throughout, though. (→read more)
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Nana News from icwales.icnetwork.co.uk
Oct 10 2007 by Our Correspondent, South Wales Echo
GOWNED and bespectacled, Nana Mouskouri is instantly recognisable, and has been for more than 40 years.
In fact, she made her first record 50 years ago and has been touring pretty much constantly since 1960.
However, as she approaches her mid-70s, she has decided to retire from touring; but not before she has said “Goodbye and thank you” to her fans in the form of a Farewell World Tour.
“I’m not actually retiring from singing – if people still want me to sing I will – I’m just retiring from touring,” she said.
“It is logical for me to retire, you see I’ve served music a lot and I hope I have done some nice things, but the world belongs to the young people.
“I cannot be a surprise anymore and it’s hard to find (new) music that I like to sing.
“Also,” she adds, “I wanted to quit while I was still healthy.”
It is fitting that Mouskouri will end her career at the top.
Born in Crete in 1934, she moved with her family to Athens where she was recognised at the prestigious Athens Conservatoire as a unique voice; instead of her vocal chords being of equal size, one is thicker than the other.
She spent eight years at the Conservatoire studying classical music with a career in opera in mind but began experimenting with jazz and eventually was expelled.
Nana’s new habit of singing in jazz clubs led to a meeting with Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis and they struck up a fruitful partnership that won the Greek Song Festival two years running.
From then on there was no looking back. In 1961 Nana recorded her most famous song, The White Rose of Athens and her multi-cultural appeal – she speaks seven languages – saw her become the most successful female singer in history.
She has recorded 450 albums and her 350 million-plus album sales surpasses The Beatles and Elvis combined, with more than 300 gold, platinum and diamond discs.
“I never thought I’d do so much in my life,” she reflected. “
My life has been wonderful. I’ve seen the world, I’ve worked with so many great artists like Quincy Jones and Harry Belafonte.
“But most of all,” she pauses, “I’ve been so lucky to have been loved by so many people. The audiences who come to my shows have always shown me so much love.”
So onto the final tour. The evening begins with a short film about Mouskouri’s career – her autobiography is also due – before she arrives with a seven-piece band to perform pop, classical and jazz songs.
And the tour has been going some while now.
“Yes, it started in 2005 and will end next year in 2008.
“You have to take time to do the whole world and I want to take the opportunity to say to my fans ‘Thank you for listening to me for so many years’.
“After 47 years it won’t be easy.
“You can never leave music if you love it, but now I’ll have more time to listen.”
Nana Mouskouri’s Farewell Tour arrives at St David’s Hall, Cardiff, on Thursday, October 25. Tickets cost £27.50-£30 from 029 2084 4444.
Nana News from www.greekembassy.nl/press/
Nana Mouskouri, “a very particular case in the world popular music history” has recorded in many different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Italian, and Spanish. For more than 40 years Nana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties in Greece to her unstoppable rise to the top. Nana Mouskouri is now on a “farewell world tour" that will carry on until 2008 with concerts worldwide.”Mouskouri's autobiography was published in Greek in 2006 under the title "My name is Nana.” French (Nana Mouskouri, La fille de la Chauve-souris, Editions XO) and English (Nana Mouskouri, Memoirs, Orion Books) versions were published earlier this month.Source: GNA
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Benefizkonzert mit Nana Mouskouri in Saarbrücken unter Schirmherrschaft von Doris Pack
Die saarländische Europaabgeordnete Doris Pack übernimmt die Schirmherrschaft zu einem Benefizkonzert mit Nana Mouskouri am 15. November 2007 in Saarbrücken. Der Erlös des Konzerts ist für die Arbeit einer Europaschule in Bosnien & Herzegowina bestimmt.
Es ist das zweite Konzert dieser Art; bereits 1998 sang Nana Mouskouri in Saarbrücken, um Spenden zu sammeln für eine Europaschule in Bosnien. Gemeinsam mit Doris Pack brachte sie den damals gesammelten Betrag nach Bosnien und übergab ihn selbst vor Ort an die Schule.
"Ich freue mich sehr, dass sich Nana Mouskouri mit dem Konzert ein weiteres Mal für die Europaschule in Bosnien engagiert. Finanzielle Unterstützung wird für die dortige Arbeit dringend benötigt. Die Wunden, die ethnischen Vertreibungen hinterlassen haben, heilen auf Dauer nur, wenn Kinder der neuen Generation gemeinsam auf der Schulbank sitzen und ihre Verschiedenheit zu akzeptieren lernen" so Doris Pack.
21. 9. 2007
Nana Mouskouri bekommt Platin-Stimmgabel für ihr Lebenswerk
Am 22. September präsentiert Showmaster Dieter Thomas Heck in der Ludwigshafener Friedrich-Ebert-Halle bereits zum 27. Mal die Verleihung der Goldenen Stimmgabel. Das ZDF überträgt die große Galaveranstaltung am 3. Oktober um 21.15 Uhr. Überreicht wird der Preis von den beiden Schirmherren, dem rheinland-pfälzischen Ministerpräsidenten Kurt Beck und ZDF-Intendant Herrn Prof. Markus Schächter.
Nana Mouskouri (72) wird im Rahmen der TV-Show für ihr Lebenswerk mit einer Platin-Stimmgabel ausgezeichnet. Nana Mouskouri ist mit mehr als 250 Millionen verkauften Tonträgern eine der erfolgreichsten Sängerinnen der Welt, teilten die Veranstalter der Goldenen Stimmgabel am Montag zur Begründung mit. Im Laufe ihrer Karriere hat sie mehr als 300 Goldene, Platin- und Diamantene Schallplatten bekommen.
Nana Mouskouri wird auf Ihrer Weltabschiedstournee Ende Oktober in Irland und England gastieren. Am 15. November gibt sie ein Benefiz-Konzert zugunsten einer bosnischen Europaschule in der Saarlandhalle Saarbrücken. Weitere Konzerte stehen am 17. November in Liege, am 18. November Luxemburg und am 20. November in Genf als Benefizveranstaltungen zugunsten der Opfer der Brandkatastrophe in Griechenland auf der Agenda. Am 24. November tritt Nana Mouskouri zum letzten Mal in diesem Jahr in Europa in Paris in der Opera auf. Im nächsten Jahr wird Nana Ihre Abschiedstournee im Sommer in Griechenland beenden.
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Going out on a song: Nana Mouskouri sets off on farewell tour after 40-year career
By Jonathan Brown
Published: 26 October 2007
It could have all been so different. Back in 1966, a young Nana Mouskouri, then relatively little known outside mainland Europe, embarked on a tour of the US with Harry Belafonte.
It was a big moment in her embryonic career. The calypso legend loved Nana's voice but when it came to her choice of eyewear he was unequivocal, insisting she ditch the black horn-rimmed specs on stage.
According to the fairytale legend that is her life story, Nana acceded to his demands but grew deeply unhappy. After two days of sadness it was her turn to deliver the ultimatum to Belafonte – love me, love my glasses. The glasses stayed.
Forty years on, 450 albums, 230 gold and platinum discs and 300 million records sold later, Nana Mouskouri took to the stage of St David's Hall in Cardiff last night still sporting those famous spectacles to begin the first British night of her epic farewell tour.
She will perform before sell-out crowds in Gateshead, London, Manchester, Glasgow and Birmingham before decamping to Saarbrucken in Germany where the world first took notice of the commercial potential of the young Greek singer with the nightingale voice. It was there that her German language version of "White Rose from Athens" sold more than a million copies.
The Nana musical juggernaut has already rolled across the US, North America and Ireland this year before coming to Britain. After touring mainland Europe, she will then head to Australia, Asia and South America in 2008 where her loyal army of fans are waiting to bid their ageless heroine with the jet black hair and trademark centre parting, a tearful adieu.
It is not bad going for a woman who turned 73 two weeks ago. Though still clearly in rude good health and at the top of her game Mouskouri insists that, after singing for 50 years, it is time to make way for younger performers.
There can be little doubt that few singers coming through today in this increasingly fickle world can expect to emulate the kind of musical longevity she has enjoyed. Nor in this fast-moving digital age, where pop stars must reinvent themselves every few months to stay in touch, can they hope to do so by sticking so closely to the geeky image and basic musical formula that have proved so incredibly popular for Mouskouri over the decades.
Nana was born into a close-knit family in Chania, Crete, moving to Athens at the age of three. The city was occupied by the Nazis for much of her childhood yet her father, a film projectionist, and her mother who taught her the native folk songs, worked hard to get her and her sister into the Hellenic Conservatoire.
She recalls how, by night, her dad used to slip away to fight with the Greek resistance against the German invaders. Times were tough as well as dangerous and despite the money running out she continued to have lessons though her teacher's desire for her to be the next Maria Callas could not survive her nights at the city's Zaki club where she learned how to sing like her new heroines Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.
Her route to fame was the Greek national song contest and Mouskouri was later to be something of the patron saint of the later Eurovision movement, first representing Luxembourg because her native land did not have television. She eventually made an emotional performance when the contest was finally held in Greece for the first time in 2006.
Marriage came along in 1961 and her fame spread to France and Germany before her first trip to New York with legendary impresario Quincy Jones. British audiences had to wait until 1968 when she made her first television appearances on Nana and Guests .
At that time, however, the record shops were woefully unprepared and had to desperately seek out some of her records to satisfy the demands of her fans.
Yet the Nana story had another twist yet. In 1993 she was appointed as a Unicef Goodwill Ambassador, undertaking a mission to visit children in Bosnia. The following year she was elected as a Member of the European parliament, representing the right wing Greek New Democracy party. She claims not to have liked politics – "it dries your heart" she once said, though despite being heckled by her fellow Eurocrats for her apparent guilelessnes, she proved an effective communicator, even joining forces with her old Eurovision sparring partner Dana when she ran for the Irish Presidency. In 1998, Mouskouri came back to the UK –that time seeking the return of the Elgin Marbles and campaigned across the world for women's rights.
She served only one term as an MEP, returning to her Unicef work and making music. Having divorced her husband in the mid-70s, she lives with her partner Andre Chapelle and plans to dedicate the rest of her life to her family and her humanitarian work. While still wearing those glasses, of course.
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