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Nana Mouskouri
The daughter of a film projectionist, Nana Mouskouri was born in Crete but
raised in Athens and her obvious musical talent earned her a place at Athens
Conservatoire, where she studied classical music with a view to singing opera.
When the Nazis occupied Greece, her father worked for the resistance movement
and Nana left the Conservatoire under a cloud when her growing interest in jazz
music compromised her classical studies. Strongly influenced by Ella Fitzgerald,
she started singing jazz in local night clubs and in 1957 she made her first
recording, singing Fascination in both ...
