Nana Mouskouri
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. ...
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Filmography (110 Appearances)
Serge Lama, le dernier rappel
Nos Voix Pour Toutes 2025
Merci Dorothée !
L'Âge d'or de la pub
Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
I Love Greece
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Indiana Jones: The Search for the Lost Golden Age
Nana Mouskouri, Momente ihres Lebens
Schlager nonstop Die 60er – Merci, Cherie
O Samba
Nana Mouskouri - Live at the Royal Albert Hall
Denk ich an Weihnacht
Musikalische Reise
Nana Mouskouri - The Farewell World Tour: Live At The Odeon Herodes Atticus
En direct de l'univers
...Sings the Beatles
C à vous
Quincy Jones : 75th Birthday Celebration Live at Montreux
Q&A
On n'est pas couché
The Story of Light Entertainment
Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Tout le monde en parle
Willkommen bei Carmen Nebel
V Graham Norton
Nana Swings
Star Academy
Ein Star und seine Stadt
Aeschbacher
Menschen der Woche
Hit auf Hit
Rove
Beckmann
Vivement dimanche
Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
De pé a pá
Musik für Sie
alfredissimo! Kochen mit Bio
Die Feste mit Florian Silbereisen
Eurolaul
Le cadeau des cadeaux
ECHO-Verleihung
Riverboat
Le Cadeau de Noël
Musik liegt in der Luft
DAS!
Stars 90
Flitterabend
Téléthon
Le monde est à vous
The Dame Edna Experience
Sacrée Soirée
Nachtcafé
Wedden, dat..?
Melodien für Millionen
Die verflixte 7
Bei Bio
Champs-Elysées
Telezirkus
Tag des deutschen Schlagers
Show-Express
Verstehen Sie Spaß?
NDR Talk Show
Bio’s Bahnhof
Fan School
Auf los geht's los
Kölner Treff
Numéro un
Système 2
Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Midi Première
Musik ist Trumpf
3 nach 9
Der große Preis
Die Montagsmaler
Midi trente
Ein Kessel Buntes
Le Grand Échiquier
Cadet Rousselle
Dalli Dalli
Samedi soir
Drei mal neun
Peter Alexander präsentiert Spezialitäten
Die ZDF-Hitparade
Starparade
Die Caterina-Valente-Show
Dim Dam Dom
Soeben eingetroffen
Hör hin, schau zu!
Die Drehscheibe
Einer wird gewinnen
The Danny Kaye Show
Tonight in Person
The Mike Douglas Show
Werner Müllers Schlagermagazin
Musik aus Studio B
Dreamland of Desire
Treffpunkt Telebar
Love and storm
Sunday's Date
Date in Corfu
Mousitsa
Stars in the Ring
Discorama
Lisa, Tosca of Athens
Aktuelle Schaubude
Zum blauen Bock
Cinépanorama
Was bin ich?