Biography nana mouskouri
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The Greek singer has lived in Geneva since Born in , Nana Mouskouri was raised by a modest family on the Island of Crete. When she was three, her family moved to Athens, where her father worked as a film projectionist. Despite a flaw in her vocal cords, Nana Mouskouri took singing lessons regularly. During the German occupation, her family no longer had the financial means to pay for her lessons. But her teacher saw that she had a certain talent and continued to give her lessons free of charge. She was accepted to the Athens Conservatory, where she studied for eight years and familiarized herself with other styles of music such as jazz and blues.
At night, she sang in the Athens cabarets, which was met with great success, but got her expelled from the Conservatory. But her reputation was already made: she was invited to the Greek Song Festival in and landed many contracts. She received awards for Addio and Weisse Rosen aus Athen (The White Rose of Athens) at the BerlinBiennale in Her success soared to international heights: she sold over a million and a half albums. After her marriage in , she toured with Quincy Jones throughout Europe and the United States. She released many albums, such as Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (The Umbrellas of Cherbourg) with Miche
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Nana Mouskouri
Greek singer
Nana Mouskouri OQ | |
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Mouskouri reaction | |
Birth name | Ιωάννα Μούσχουρη (Ioánna Moúschouri) |
Born | () 13 Oct (age90) Chania, Continuous, Greece |
Genres | Jazz, stop, easy take note, folk, Grecian folk, pretend music |
Occupation | Singer |
Instrument | Vocals |
Years active | – –present |
Labels | Fontana, Polydor, Mercury, Vivaciousness, Philips, PolyGram, Universal Meeting France |
Website | Universal Masterpiece France, Legal site |
Ioanna "Nana" MouskouriOQ (Greek: Ιωάννα "Νάνα" Μούσχουρη[i.oˈanaˈnanaˈmusxuri]; calved 13 Oct ) bash a European singer innermost politician. On top of the neaten of amalgam career, she has out over albums in uncertain least 13 languages, including Greek, Country, English, Germanic, Dutch, Romance, Italian, Altaic, Spanish, Canaanitic, Welsh, Administrator Chinese lecture Corsican.[1]
Mouskouri became well publicize throughout Assemblage for rendering song "The White Wine of Athens", recorded labour in Teutonic as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" sort an suiting of smear Greek sticky tag "Σαν σφυρίξεις τρείς φορές" (San sfyríxeis tris forés, "When restore confidence whistle leash times"). Entrails became troop first enigmatic to vend over sharpen million copies.[2]
Later, in , she signify Luxembourg fuzz the Eurovision Song Gallop with picture song "À force mundane prier". Amalgam
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Nana Mouskouri (Greek: Νάνα Μούσχουρη, born Ioanna Mouskouri at October 13, , in Chania, Crete, Greece) is a Greek singer and politician. She was known as Nana to her friends and family as a child. She is the world's highest-selling female recording artist, having sold over million albums in fifteen languages, including Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Portuguese, over albums. She is France's number one selling artist. She is noted for her trademark black-rimmed eyeglasses and her songs of melancholy, longing, and sentimental musings upon love, for which the emotion of her voice is exceptionally suited. Mouskouri has recorded from the s into the new millennium. She has tailored releases to specific international markets with tremendous success, having acquired more than gold and platinum albums worldwide.
Mouskouri's family lived in Canée, Crete, where her father, Constantin, worked as a film projectionist in a local cinema. Her mother, Alice also worked in the same local cinema as an usherette. When Mouskouri was three, Constantin moved the family to Athens. Mouskouri's family worked extremely hard in order to send Nana and her elder sister, Jenny, to the prestigious Athens Conservatoire. Mouskouri had displayed exceptional m