If you have not learned about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

On 2013, a Canadian University awarded her an honorary degree. Her family lived in Chania (Crete), but when she was three her family moved to Athens, where family sent her to the Athens Conservatoire. She studied classical music with an emphasis on singing opera, also encouraged by her friends to experiment with jazz music. Subsequently, NANA MOUSKOURI https://www.facebook.com/NanaMouskouriOff/ left the Conservatoire and began performing at the Zaki club in Athens.

In 1957, she recorded her first song, in both Greek and English, meeting a Greek composer that offered to write songs for her. In 1961, NANA MOUSKOURI http://www.nana.mouskouri.online.fr/ performed a soundtrack of a German documentary about Greece, and her single White Roses from Athens it became a success. She has been married twice: firstly to a guitarist in her backing band, then to her sound technician. In 2006, she made a guest appearance at that year’s Eurovision Song Contest, in Greece.

In 1965, NANA MOUSKOURI recorded her second English-language album in the United States, entitled Nana Sings. American singer Harry Belafonte heard and liked the album. Belafonte brought Mouskouri on tour with him through 1966. After a year, she had her first appearance at Paris’ legendary Olympia concert theatre. In 1979, she released another English-language album (Roses and Sunshine), consisting of folk and country material.

WHITE ROSES FROM ATHENS – Until the white rose blooms again you must leave me, leave me lonely. So goodbye my love until then until the white rose blooms again. The summer days are ending in the valley and soon the time will come when we must be apart, but like the rose that comes back with the springtime, you will return to me when springtime comes around, until the white rose blooms again. You must leave me, leave me lonely. So goodbye my love until then until the white rose blooms again, until the white rose blooms again you must leave me, leave me lonely. So goodbye my love till then, till the white rose blooms again. Goodbye until then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyloJbqHq6s

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