Nana Mouskouri

Genres:	Easy Listening • Holiday & Seasonal • Music Videos & Concerts • Vocals • World Music
Descriptive "tags":	female vocalists • greek • jazz • pop • french • nana mouskouri
Decades Active:	1960s • 1970s • 1980s • 1990s • 2000s
Links online:	BBC Music • Official Homepage • Wikipedia • Wikipedia

Biography

Joanna Mouskouri, 13 October 1934, Chania, Crete. Mousouri’s family moved to Athens, Greece when she was three years old. This bespectacled vocalist was steeped in the classics and jazz but was sufficiently broadminded to embrace a native style of pop after a stint on Radio Athens in 1958. An artistic liaison with orchestra leader Manos Hadjidakis facilitated a debut single, ‘Les Enfants Du Piree’, which was aimed at foreign consumers. Well-received performances at several international song festivals were added incentives for her team to relocate to Germany, where ‘Weiss Rosen Aus Athen’ (derived from a Greek folk tune), a number from Hadjidakis’ soundtrack to the 1961 movie Traumland Der Sehnsucht, sold a million copies. Now one of her country’s foremost musical ambassadors, Mouskouri undertook a US college tour which was followed by further record success, particularly in France with such songs as ‘L’Enfant Au...

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