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FEMUSINDO.com - Nana Mouskouri, born Ioánna Moúschouri, is a Greek singer who is one of the world's best-selling music artists.
Throughout her five-decade career, Nana Mouskouri, who was born in Chania, Crete, Greece, on October 13, 1934, has sold between 300 and 400 million records.
The songs she recorded were sung in various languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh and Maori.
Famous Throughout Europe
Mouskouri became famous throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", which was first recorded in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen".
This song was the beginning of her success because it was Mouskouri's first recording to sell more than one million copies.
In 1963, Nana Mouskouri represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with her signature song "À Force de Prier".
Her friendship with composer Michel Legrand resulted in Mouskouri's recording of the theme song for the Oscar-nominated film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg.
Multilingual Television Personality and International Star
From 1968 to 1976, she hosted her own BBC-produced TV show, Presenting Nana Mouskouri.
Her popularity as a multilingual television personality and her distinctive image, thanks to her trademark black-rimmed glasses at the time, turned Mouskouri into an international star.
In 1993, Mouskouri became a UNICEF spokesperson and was elected to the European Parliament as a Greek representative from 1994 to 1999.
In 2006, she was a special guest at the final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, where she was presented as the best-selling artist of all time.
In 2015, he was awarded the Echo Music Prize for Outstanding Achievement by the German music association Deutsche Phono-Akademie. (*)
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