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The daughter of a rulle projectionist, Nana Mouskouri was born in Crete but raised in Athens and her obvious musical talent earned her a place at Athens Conservatoire, where she studied classical music with a view to singing musikdrama. When the Nazis occupied Greece, her father worked for the resistance movement and Nana left the Conservatoire beneath a cloud when her growing interest in jazz music compromised her classical studies. Strongly influenced bygd Ella Fitzgerald, she started singing jazz in local night clubs and in 1957 she made her first recording, singing Fascination in both Greek and English. Greek composer Manos Hadjidakis offered to wri
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Nana Mouskouri offered her pop soprano to the world in at least a dozen languages and, in doing so, became an international star. Born Ioanna Mouskouri in Chania, Greece, in 1934, she began singing lessons at 12 and studied classical music at the Athens Conservatory before being booted for moonlighting as a jazz vocalist. Her collaborative relationship with songwriter Manos Hadjidakisl led to the folksy 1961 German-language hit “The White Rose of Athens.” In the ‘60s, she represented Luxembourg in the Eurovision Song Contest with “À force de prier” and worked with Harry Belafonte on 1965’s An Evening with Belafonte/Mouskouri. She toured relentlessly in the ‘70s and further increased her profile as host of the BBC’s Presenting Nana Mouskouri. Her most wide-reaching song, “Je chante avec toi liberté,” was released in 1981. Along with this enduring musical legacy, Mouskouri also served as Greek deputy to the European Parliament from 1994 to 1999. While she has since stopped touring, sh
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Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri is the biggest-selling Greek singer of all time. The fluency of Nana Mouskouri in multiple languages — Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese — enabled her to reach audiences all over Europe, the Americas, and even Asia.
Mouskouri possessed of a distinctive, angelic soprano — the product of having been born with only one vocal cord.
Nana Mouskouri was sometimes described as Europe’s answer to Barbra Streisand. Her repertoire was varied enough to support the universal appeal she aimed for: jazz standards, well-known pop tunes from before and after the rock era, French cabaret chansons, movie songs, classical and operatic repertory, religious music, Greek folk songs and more.
Biography of Mouskouri
Ioanna Mouskouri (Joanna in English; known as “Nana” from a young age) was born on October 13, 1934, on the island of Crete, in the town of Chania.
Her father worked as a movie projectionist and move