Nana News from shieldsgazette.com/

Published Date: 04 October 2007
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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Goodbye Nana
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 Farewell Tour

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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4. 10. 2007
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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