My name is Nana

Her life as told to Fotis Apergis

The Beatles’ record debuted at number one on the world music scene in the early 1960s. The same goes for Nana Mouskouri. Elton John topped the list in the 1970s. The same goes for Nana Mouskouri. In the mid-1980s, Madonna topped the UK charts. Nana Mouskouri surpassed her. And today she still sees her records being successful in many countries, while continuing her farewell tour. And yet, in post-war Athens, Nana was just a girl who was ashamed of her thickness, his myopic glasses and, above all, of her father’s destructive passion for papers. .
Her only consolation was to sing the melodies from the Hollywood movies in front of the empty chairs of the cinema where he worked as a projection engineer. That’s how he discovered jazz and light singing. And when Manos Hadjidakis and Nikos Gatsos welcomed her in their poetic daily life, she was enchanted. Through their world she created her own.

First Germany and then France, England and all countries discovered the singer with the unique voice. For almost half a century, Nana Mouskouri has been singing, from Finnish to Chinese, the most important Greek and foreign composers. It has sold over 300 million records and has won awards from both the international music industry and the French Republic. He has served as an MEP and continues to serve as Unicef’s ambassador.

How and why did he get here? This book, which is full of dozens of unknown photographs-documents, tells the magical adventure of a singer-phenomenon, against the background of the small stories of the greats of our time. But, above all, it is the heartfelt confession of a woman who still sees a wounded child in the mirror – and travels the world singing, because she hopes that her love is somewhere.