Nana Mouskouri
Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri (born October 13, 1934) is a Greek singer. Over the span of her career, she has released over 200 albums in at least twelve languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican.
Mouskouri became well known throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", recorded first in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" as an adaptation of her Greek song "Σαν σφυρίξεις τρείς φορές" (San sfyríxeis tris forés, "When you whistle three times"). It became her first record to sell over one million copies.
Later in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "À force de prier". Her friendship with the composer Michel Legrand led to the recording by Mouskouri of the theme song of the Oscar-nominated film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. From 1968 to 1976, she hosted her own TV show produced by BBC, Presenting Nana Mouskouri. Her popularity as a multilingual television personality and distinctive image, owing to the then unusual signature black-rimmed glasses, turned Mouskouri into an international star.
"Je chante avec toi Liberté", recorded in 1981, is perhaps her biggest hit to date, performed in at least five languages – French, English as "Song for Liberty", German as "Lied der Freiheit", Spanish as "Libertad" and Portuguese as "Liberdade". "Only Love", a song recorded in 1985 as the theme song of TV series Mistral's Daughter, gained worldwide popularity along with its other versions in French (as "L'Amour en Héritage"), Italian (as "Come un'eredità"), Spanish (as "La dicha del amor"), and German (as "Aber die Liebe bleibt"). It became her only UK hit single when it reached number two in February 1986.
Mouskouri became a spokesperson for UNICEF in 1993 and was elected to the European Parliament as a Greek deputy from 1994 to 1999.
In 2015 she was awarded the Echo Music Prize for Outstanding achievements by the German music association Deutsche Phono-Akademie.
Nana Mouskouri's family lived in Chania, Crete, where her father, Constantine, worked as a film projectionist in a local cinema; her mother, Alice, worked in the same cinema as an usherette. When Mouskouri was three, her family moved to Athens.
Mouskouri's family sent her and her older sister Eugenía (Jenny) to the Athens Conservatoire. Although Mouskouri had displayed exceptional musical talent from age six, Jenny initially appeared to be the more gifted sibling. Financially unable to support both girls' studies, the parents asked their tutor which one should continue. The sister conceded that Jenny had the better voice, but Nana was the one with the true inner need to sing. Mouskouri has said that a medical examination revealed she only has one functioning vocal cord and this could well account for her remarkable singing voice (in her younger years ranging from a husky, dark alto, which she later dropped, to a ringing coloratura mezzo), as opposed to her breathy, raspy speaking voice.
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Mouskouri became well known throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", recorded first in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" as an adaptation of her Greek song "Σαν σφυρίξεις τρείς φορές" (San sfyríxeis tris forés, "When you whistle three times"). It became her first record to sell over one million copies.
Later in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "À force de prier". Her friendship with the composer Michel Legrand led to the recording by Mouskouri of the theme song of the Oscar-nominated film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. From 1968 to 1976, she hosted her own TV show produced by BBC, Presenting Nana Mouskouri. Her popularity as a multilingual television personality and distinctive image, owing to the then unusual signature black-rimmed glasses, turned Mouskouri into an international star.
"Je chante avec toi Liberté", recorded in 1981, is perhaps her biggest hit to date, performed in at least five languages – French, English as "Song for Liberty", German as "Lied der Freiheit", Spanish as "Libertad" and Portuguese as "Liberdade". "Only Love", a song recorded in 1985 as the theme song of TV series Mistral's Daughter, gained worldwide popularity along with its other versions in French (as "L'Amour en Héritage"), Italian (as "Come un'eredità"), Spanish (as "La dicha del amor"), and German (as "Aber die Liebe bleibt"). It became her only UK hit single when it reached number two in February 1986.
Mouskouri became a spokesperson for UNICEF in 1993 and was elected to the European Parliament as a Greek deputy from 1994 to 1999.
In 2015 she was awarded the Echo Music Prize for Outstanding achievements by the German music association Deutsche Phono-Akademie.
Nana Mouskouri's family lived in Chania, Crete, where her father, Constantine, worked as a film projectionist in a local cinema; her mother, Alice, worked in the same cinema as an usherette. When Mouskouri was three, her family moved to Athens.
Mouskouri's family sent her and her older sister Eugenía (Jenny) to the Athens Conservatoire. Although Mouskouri had displayed exceptional musical talent from age six, Jenny initially appeared to be the more gifted sibling. Financially unable to support both girls' studies, the parents asked their tutor which one should continue. The sister conceded that Jenny had the better voice, but Nana was the one with the true inner need to sing. Mouskouri has said that a medical examination revealed she only has one functioning vocal cord and this could well account for her remarkable singing voice (in her younger years ranging from a husky, dark alto, which she later dropped, to a ringing coloratura mezzo), as opposed to her breathy, raspy speaking voice.
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Known for
![L'Âge d'or de la pub](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wWkz10PqaTQDAqRiV6QjIwNkTLK.jpg)
L'Âge d'or de la pub
![Il était une fois Champs-Élysées](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wt72JTNaoUNMCwgSBjKdyjasvNI.jpg)
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
![I Love Greece](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vcxRXz2feaKCyuXst4adDdiqJfX.jpg)
I Love Greece
![La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8Heh90FuUdSPKT67UlWjA291bX3.jpg)
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
![Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/r3iQkvEU50t87oiKq6seLJFZMgF.jpg)
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
![Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/3szgNkVVwiQpjxdrAuSC6dxPajg.jpg)
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
![O Samba](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zwkzSl1ba1BQ941gEXjClamo2nD.jpg)
O Samba
![Nana Mouskouri - Live at the Royal Albert Hall](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8jxR9xM3XZ1fpriKUqi4FGgeQST.jpg)
Nana Mouskouri - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
![Nana Mouskouri - The Farewell World Tour: Live At The Odeon Herodes Atticus](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ly9V2Tc1Tl3B908oDWpYB5hKGE6.jpg)
Nana Mouskouri - The Farewell World Tour: Live At The Odeon Herodes Atticus
![En direct de l'univers](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rfT6vvS9ceuWjR0z5yydCrH3rlI.jpg)
En direct de l'univers
![C à vous](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mWUZ9Gb3qCiOusMtn2AC9uWez5C.jpg)
C à vous
![Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bNfkcCOTGJN8WqLNQQFW4hIw0m3.jpg)
Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
![Q&A](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fkO0LWXU6R21J3GUIbzCZclZObp.jpg)
Q&A
![The Story of Light Entertainment](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6O1t37v7WFmNsEddjR0bfSrk21F.jpg)
The Story of Light Entertainment
![Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/778m5zkdqSAUUywpMe7XxmmhDx2.jpg)
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
![Tout le monde en parle](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8BiaKzjK3arQM2yKLzB9zBKB6GL.jpg)
Tout le monde en parle
![V Graham Norton](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/8nR48FrRdrBWQ2bnTaknURnBNkF.jpg)
V Graham Norton
![Nana Swings](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/35vc8v9dsej8gcetdPWXWgkw3Fd.jpg)
Nana Swings
![Star Academy](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/26qS8VmB7PgtkkBuA0J20nmTish.jpg)
Star Academy
![Rove](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/znUsPPMZndVOOxlGm6zLk6BpkFo.jpg)
Rove
![Beckmann](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wKt8hNtotZhhWqbBdRk1doIDwkx.jpg)
Beckmann
![Vivement dimanche](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nRrrsDkH1kYgjvTpirkwMqZFjc5.jpg)
Vivement dimanche
![Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5JP891UMjMNBy5wijaYXswu1pfJ.jpg)
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
![De pé a pá](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nkBT3IavLILEO8EWxhpu2idH6h.jpg)
De pé a pá
![alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cVrUaFOQZvGgnEk95wCqPyl7ygM.jpg)
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
![Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bZO5GQ7BL0cbyy057wNx19NMH46.jpg)
Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen
![Riverboat](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uU7FdI2s6VcUFJF6eByzbrTLszm.jpg)
Riverboat
![DAS!](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yMg0l6hxCnR94Fcl1F1IEkmG26V.jpg)
DAS!
![Stars 90](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/naAypKZSdw4eNFnFpx4fUjuYDeU.jpg)
Stars 90
![Le monde est à vous](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6TUrM6EEFze2lg2NaVnraq66EBm.jpg)
Le monde est à vous
![The Dame Edna Experience](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rsPxD6mH38O0sXMn9j7UEbXiE1o.jpg)
The Dame Edna Experience
![Sacrée soirée](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/h2GaYY9A66LNbVlUb33rBnByEFU.jpg)
Sacrée soirée
![Nachtcafé](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ikC4fPRdB6y2dFqR4le1nxxUwn8.jpg)
Nachtcafé
![Champs-Elysées](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uA6Waea7ozD7OEXNGaSqPtydPdd.jpg)
Champs-Elysées
![Verstehen Sie Spaß?](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iqDCXu80qwdjS5QpV0xey85MEX8.jpg)
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
![NDR Talk Show](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iDyRo1jkDP17uvZfUcw44WRWudc.jpg)
NDR Talk Show
![Fan School](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cdw30PPpNb8f7OREp2vVKu524PY.jpg)
Fan School
![Auf los geht's los](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jVS5f5rIyDJFVKhJnPQe5P4HSDl.jpg)
Auf los geht's los
![Kölner Treff](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/9U9XqUp41DjwCvolAgqSXhowPyB.jpg)
Kölner Treff
![Les Rendez-vous du dimanche](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/csEN53LOtSMucpBohRi8YKY27WU.jpg)
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
![Midi Première](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iiPXeiJHsljoyl2ZXft8Cf7pLnc.jpg)
Midi Première
![Die Montagsmaler](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4XTSuukIkXpWKQA2BK3kr89hN60.jpg)
Die Montagsmaler
![A Kettle of Colour](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/eMX1tomqkMHwZNkYLJGI0WkNeLY.jpg)
A Kettle of Colour
![Le Grand Échiquier](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hWsFrkYyPwCz4rt2lpiKmqkgxRp.jpg)
Le Grand Échiquier
![Cadet Rousselle](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fXvR2uUXbtw3J0gO0lqWefb5HR1.jpg)
Cadet Rousselle
![Dalli Dalli](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/83snoFexCzEphAIkGmVXfutQ4Av.jpg)
Dalli Dalli
![Dim Dam Dom](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/oxPTNSZJMu9XU82HV7kDnMYxiFa.jpg)
Dim Dam Dom
![The Danny Kaye Show](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fbr2fONp9YZY46vsiHJWtDoTohm.jpg)
The Danny Kaye Show
![Love and storm](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/x750jeeBZPhLoZ1DBNJmtvVm4ZK.jpg)
Love and storm
![Sunday's Date](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6ihjHTP1TruTw3etKlcjp8y26dN.jpg)
Sunday's Date
![Date in Corfu](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ozEBYShc8glFRzLlkJpEsWLc1LH.jpg)
Date in Corfu
![Mousitsa](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mIjQD2LLZ0mVUbIWUInxRzdRAHb.jpg)
Mousitsa
![Stars in der Manege](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2PWPCE2jSYEdt3ExIKbPDQoslR1.jpg)
Stars in der Manege
![Discorama](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1SO2N3VgilTOOjjpNiFKBTqTEd0.jpg)
Discorama
![Lisa, Tosca of Athens](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/skDYb82pIodHbYGhXFio9mwl9PP.jpg)
Lisa, Tosca of Athens
![Cinépanorama](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aA3E04yh8xeNbOEp3Imsq2gqidc.jpg)
Cinépanorama