And that, for Mouskouri, has always been the most important thing. Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri was born in Crete in 1934. Her father was a movie projectionist and she grew up watching films from the ...

rain-soaked winters – no wonder the BBC gave her her own program – Presenting Nana Mouskouri – which ran until 1976. Mouskouri was born in Crete, the daughter of a cinema usherette and a ...

By Yo Zushi Between 1939 and 1994, Frank Sinatra released recordings of more than 1,200 songs. The Greek singer Nana Mouskouri, born in 1934 and still active as a performer, has at least 200 albums to ...

Nana Mouskouri was born in Greece. She studied voice and piano at the Athens Conservatory before making her debut at a tavern in Plaka. Shortly afterwards, she won first prize in a Greek song ...

NANA MOUSKOURI: Music in general is therapeutic ... The fact is the 84-year-old Greek-born singer has been wowing audiences worldwide, in several languages, for nigh on six decades.

can they hope to do so by sticking so closely to the geeky image and basic musical formula that have proved so incredibly popular for Mouskouri over the decades. Nana was born into a close-knit ...

Mouskouri’s first child, Nicholas, with guitarist husband George Petsilas was born in Geneva in 1968, followed by daughter Helene in 1970. Petsilas returned to Greece in 1975. Nana Mouskouri ...

This week he is in conversation with singer Nana Mouskouri. Born on the island of Crete in Greece, Nana began singing at the age of 12 inspired by jazz legends such as Frank Sinatra and Ella ...

She was born in Crete and as the daughter of ... Through it all, music gave Mouskouri “courage to exist”. Nana and her sister Jenny both won places at Athens Conservatoire to study singing ...

Greece's crippling economic crisis has prompted its best-known singer, Nana Mouskouri ... climb out of its economic black hole. Mouskouri, who was born in Crete, has sold more than 300m records ...