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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 ...