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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Cast

Nana Mouskouri - The Farewell World Tour: Live At The Odeon Herodes Atticus

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Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux

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Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens

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I Love Greece

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Nana Mouskouri - Live at the Royal Albert Hall

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...Sings the Beatles

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L'Âge d'or de la pub

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O Samba

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

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Mousitsa

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Love and storm

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Lisa, Tosca of Athens

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Sunday's Date

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Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés

Dreamland of Desire

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Nana Swings

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Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés

Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age

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Date in Corfu

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Bei Bio

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Treffpunkt Telebar

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Hör hin, schau zu!

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Numéro un

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Tonight in Person

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C à vous

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Le Grand Échiquier

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Dim Dam Dom

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En direct de l'univers

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V Graham Norton

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The Story of Light Entertainment

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De pé a pá

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Le monde est à vous

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Stars in der Manege

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Musik ist Trumpf

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The Dame Edna Experience

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Rove

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A Kettle of Colour

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Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten

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Hit auf Hit

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Denk ich an Weihnacht

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Midi Première

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Einer wird gewinnen

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Sacrée soirée

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Tout le monde en parle

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Bio’s Bahnhof

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Dalli Dalli

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A Kettle of Colour

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Flitterabend

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Musik liegt in der Luft

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Verstehen Sie Spaß?

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Die Montagsmaler

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Musik aus Studio B

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Starparade

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Musikalische Reise

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Cadet Rousselle

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ECHO-Verleihung

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Die ZDF-Hitparade

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Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel

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Zum blauen Bock

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Auf los geht's los

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Drei mal neun

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Midi trente

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Samedi soir

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

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Show-Express

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Numéro un

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Système 2

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Champs-Elysées

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alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio

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Menschen der Woche

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Kölner Treff

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Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

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Ein Star und seine Stadt

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Cinépanorama

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Nachtcafé

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Fan School

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Die verflixte 7

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Q&A

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DAS!

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NDR Talk Show

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3 nach 9

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Star Academy

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Beckmann

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Aeschbacher

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Aktuelle Schaubude

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Riverboat

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Tag des deutschen Schlagers

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Die Caterina-Valente-Show

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Melodien für Millionen

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Der große Preis

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Wedden, dat..?

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Discorama

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Die Drehscheibe

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Telezirkus

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Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen

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Vivement dimanche

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Stars 90

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The Danny Kaye Show

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Was bin ich?

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Soeben eingetroffen

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Werner Müllers Schlagermagazin

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Musik für Sie

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