Nana mouskouri biography book
Nana mouskouri biography greece!
Memoirs
viii, 389 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : 24 cm
"Nana Mouskouri has been an international singing sensation for more than forty years.
Nana mouskouri biography book
She has sung in her own, inimitable style on all the great stages of the world in a rich and astonishing career that began, against all the odds, when as a shy and nervous teenager she captivated audiences in the tavernas and nightclubs of her native Athens, singing not just the old favourite Greek folksongs but the popular songs from Europe and America that she had learnt from films and the radio." "Even as a young girl she had a passion for music, and loved to sing, but her childhood was not easy, dominated by the horrors of war and stripped of all comfort by a father who gambled away everything the family had.
Yet her mother recognised her talent, and somehow secured a place for her at the Conservatory. Eventually Nana had to choose between her love of classical music and her fascination with popular song; Maria Callas, who admi