Nana Mouskouri
I was introduced to Nana Mouskouri by an acquaintance who was married to a Greek guy. We were driving in my car and she referred to her music and asked me if I had heard any of it. I hadn't at that point of time. Some days later on a trip to the local music store I stumbled on one of her CD's. So while I was blogging today I heard one of her song's Plasir d'Amour and I decided to post the video on the blog. While reading through Wikipedia I found out that she had one vocal chord thicker than the other!!! (whatever that means)
Nana Mouskouri & George Chakiris - Plasir d'Amour
5 comments:
nana mouskouri's voice and repertoire remind me a lot of latin american singers, like mercedes sosa or soledad bravo, who represent a musical genre called nueva canción. she was their european soul sister. and "head on" is a nice movie;)
I have always liked Nana Mouskouri's music. I remember when I was a teenager in the 1970's, I had one of her albums and it was not considered 'hip' at all!!! But I didnt care. I used to watch Nana's TV programme which was very popular, but the comedians used to 'send her up' which was a bit unkind.
As to our gorgeous Australian actor, Alex Dimitriades, well his performance as 'Ari' in 'Head On' is legendary. A full on and confronting view of the life of a young gay man from a Greek background in Australia. Dimitriades always looks hot, whenever he is photographed, but like a lot of actors, always seems to be chain-smoking. A nice blog Wanderer which brings back a lot of memories.
Eleritz : I think I have heard a song or two by Mercedes but haven't heard Soledad Bravo. Well that gives me some music to discover. I haven't seen the movie just this trailer and it looks interesting.
Mr Hyde: I am glad that the blog brings back some memories. Nana is still not 'hip' with my generation but the good thing about great music is that it's eternal!! And yes Alex Dimitriades is HOT!!!
Yes, Nana has a lovely voice - well, more accurately, she HAD a lovely voice when she was young (it's a bit of a granny voice now) but there's quite a bit on the web now if you google about how she voted against gay and lesbian rights time and again while she was a member of the european parliament. also she was a member of a Greek right-wing party. so no love to be lost there, I think!
I didn't know that but then still that doesn't take away anything from her beautiful voice. Wish she had intellect to match her voice that helped her understand the issue better.
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