Nana Mouskouri, the White Rose of Athens ... who forbade her to take her classical exams at the end of the year. So she combined classical technique with pop and the result was sensational.

Through it all, music gave Mouskouri “courage to exist”. Nana and her sister Jenny both ... was a professor who forbade her to take her classical exams.So she threw classical technique at ...

"I studied classical music at The Greek Conservatory ... The international fan club website for Nana Mouskouri is www.nana-mouskouri.net ...

Being a child of the Seventies, I associate Nana Mouskouri with the appalling impression ... Her voice stills exudes an effortlessness that reveals her classical training and she delighted her ...

Nana Mouskouri celebrated her 80th birthday on ... Winners in the pop category are announced in March; the winners in the classical category in October. Renowned for her never - ending farewells ...

Both Nana (as she was known to her ... accepted into the Athens Conservatoire to study classical music and opera. According to her memoirs, Mouskouri's relentless progress through the Greek ...

Nana Mouskouri, pictured with Danny Kaye and Harry ... “This was the saddest period of my life.” Classical music studies at The Hellenic Conservatory with older sister Jenny ended when ...

He excelled as a classical and Flamenco guitarist and established an international career with Nana Mouskouri and her band ‘The Athenians’ which included Costas Trouptsios on bass and vocals ...

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Mouskouri is a legend in her field, able to belt out songs in 14 languages — focusing on jazz, classical, folk and country — with hits in countries all across the world. Growing up in Greece ...

Easily Greek’s most enduring musical export, Nana Mouskouri is about to mark a very ... I wanted to become an alto-classical singer because I knew it was respectable. “It is true that it ...

Nana Mouskouri has been named the most successful ... It was, in fact, her sister Jenny who wanted to study classical song at the conservatory in her native Athens. But one day a lecturer invited ...