Nana Mouskouri

Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri OQ (Greek: Ιωάννα "Νάνα" Μούσχουρη [i.oˈana ˈnana ˈmusxuri]; born 13 October 1934) is a Greek singer and politician. Over the span of her career, she has released an estimated 450 albums in at least thirteen languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Portuguese, Italian, Japanese, 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", finishing eighth. 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 1984 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 2006, she was a special guest on Eurovision Song Contest 2006's final, presented as the best selling artist of all time. In 2015, she was awarded the Echo Music Prize for Outstanding achievements by the German music association Deutsche Phono-Akademie. Nana Mouskouri was born on 13 October 1934 in Chania, Crete, where her father, Constantinos, worked as a film projectionist in a local cinema; her mother, Aliki, worked in the same cinema as an usher. 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 tutor 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 has only 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. ... Source: Article "Nana Mouskouri" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For: Acting

Born: Chania, Crete, Greece, 1934-10-13

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1959	Lisa, Tosca of Athens	singer	47
2	1959	Mousitsa	singer	41
3	1960	Date in Corfu	Singer	50
4	1960	Sunday's Date	Singer	0
5	1961	Love and storm	Singer	50
6	1961	Dreamland of Desire	Self - Singer	0
7	1997	Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés		60
8	2002	Nana Swings	Self	0
9	2005	Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés		80
10	2008	Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux	Self	62
11	2009	...Sings the Beatles	Self (archive footage)	0
12	2009	Nana Mouskouri - The Farewell World Tour: Live At The Odeon Herodes Atticus	Self	60
13	2012	Nana Mouskouri - Live at the Royal Albert Hall	Self	0
14	2015	O Samba	Self	50
15	2020	Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens	Self	60
16	2021	Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age	Self - Singer (archive footage)	78
17	2022	La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président	Self (archive footage)	72
18	2022	I Love Greece	Nana Mouskouri	49
19	2023	L'Âge d'or de la pub	Self (archive footage)	65
20	2025	Merci Dorothée !	Self (archive footage)	77

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1955	What Am I?	Self	65
2	1956	Cinépanorama	Self	80
3	1957	Zum blauen Bock	Self	60
4	1957	Aktuelle Schaubude	Self	60
5	1959	Discorama	Self	0
6	1959	Stars in the Ring	Self	53
7	1961	Treffpunkt Telebar	Self	0
8	1961	Musik aus Studio B	Self	0
9	1961	Werner Müllers Schlagermagazin	Self	0
10	1961	The Mike Douglas Show	Self	54
11	1963	Tonight in Person	Self	70
12	1963	The Danny Kaye Show	Self	63
13	1964	Einer wird gewinnen	Self	70
14	1964	Die Drehscheibe	Self	60
15	1965	Hör hin, schau zu!	Self	0
16	1965	Soeben eingetroffen	self	0
17	1965	Dim Dam Dom	Self	60
18	1966	Die Caterina-Valente-Show	Self	15
19	1968	Starparade	Self	0
20	1969	Die ZDF-Hitparade	Self	0
21	1969	Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten	Self	0
22	1970	Drei mal neun	Self	70
23	1971	Samedi soir	Self	60
24	1971	Dalli Dalli	Self - Singer	80
25	1971	Cadet Rousselle	Self	0
26	1972	Le Grand Échiquier	Self	80
27	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self	18
28	1972	Ein Kessel Buntes	Self - Musician	18
29	1972	Midi trente	Self	60
30	1974	Die Montagsmaler	Self	0
31	1974	Der große Preis	Self	60
32	1974	3 nach 9	Self	65
33	1975	Musik ist Trumpf	Self	60
34	1975	Midi Première	Self	100
35	1975	Les Rendez-vous du dimanche	Self	60
36	1975	Système 2	Self	0
37	1975	Numéro un	Self	60
38	1975	Numéro un	Self - Host	60
39	1976	Kölner Treff	Self	60
40	1977	Auf los geht's los	Self	0
41	1977	Fan School	Self	73
42	1978	Bio’s Bahnhof	Self	0
43	1979	NDR Talk Show	Self	65
44	1980	Verstehen Sie Spaß?	Self	38
45	1980	Show-Express	Self	0
46	1981	Tag des deutschen Schlagers	Self	0
47	1981	Telezirkus	Self	0
48	1982	Champs-Elysées	Self	63
49	1983	Bei Bio	Self	0
50	1984	Die verflixte 7	Self	0
51	1985	Melodien für Millionen	Self	0
52	1986	Wedden, dat..?	Self	80
53	1987	Nachtcafé	Self	47
54	1987	Sacrée soirée	Self	65
55	1987	The Dame Edna Experience	Self	50
56	1987	Le monde est à vous	Self	0
57	1987	Téléthon	Self	50
58	1988	Flitterabend	Self - Singer	0
59	1990	Stars 90	Self	62
60	1991	DAS!	Self	42
61	1991	Musik liegt in der Luft	Self - Singer	0
62	1992	Riverboat	Self	40
63	1992	ECHO-Verleihung	Self	0
64	1994	Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen	Self	0
65	1994	alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio	Self	50
66	1995	Musik für Sie	self	0
67	1996	De pé a pá	Self	65
68	1998	Vivement dimanche	Self	30
69	1999	Beckmann	Self	20
70	1999	Rove	Self	80
71	2000	Hit auf Hit	Self	0
72	2000	Menschen der Woche	Self	60
73	2001	Aeschbacher	Self	0
74	2001	Ein Star und seine Stadt	Self	0
75	2001	Star Academy	Self	64
76	2002	V Graham Norton	Self	50
77	2004	Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel	Self	40
78	2004	Tout le monde en parle	Self	42
79	2006	The Story of Light Entertainment	Self	50
80	2006	On n'est pas couché	Self - Guest	52
81	2008	Q&A	Self - Panellist	38
82	2009	C à vous	Self	60
83	2009	C à vous	Self - Guest	60
84	2009	En direct de l'univers	Self	10
85	2010	Musikalische Reise	Self	0
86	2011	Denk ich an Weihnacht	Self	0
87	2022	Il était une fois Champs-Élysées	Self (archive footage)	66

Nana Mouskouri

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