page_title: Nana Mouskouri
section_title: 21st century
hierarchical_section_title: Nana Mouskouri / 21st century
caption_attribution_description: Greece, Athen, Odeon of Herodes Atticus
context_page_description: Ioanna "Nana" Mouskouri is a Greek singer. Over the span of her career, she has released over 200 albums in at least twelve different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican.
  Mouskouri became well-known throughout Europe for the song "The White Rose of Athens", recorded first in German as "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" as an adaptation of her Greek song "Σαν σφυρίξεις τρείς φορές". It became her first record to sell over one million copies.
  Later in 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest with the song "À force de prier". Her friendship with the composer Michel Legrand led to the recording by Mouskouri of the theme song of the Oscar-nominated film The Umbrellas of Cherbourg. From 1968 to 1976, she hosted her own TV show produced by BBC, Presenting Nana Mouskouri. Her popularity as a multilingual television personality and distinctive image, owing to the then unusual signature black-rimmed glasses, turned Mouskouri into an international star.
context_section_description: Mouskouri lives in Switzerland with Chapelle, and, until her final performance in 2008, performed hundreds of concerts every year throughout her career.  In 2004, her French record company released a 34-CD box set of more than 600 of Mouskouri's mostly French songs.  In 2006 she made a guest appearance at that year's Eurovision Song Contest which was held, for the first time ever, in her native Greece.
  In the same year, she announced her plans to retire. From 2005 until 2008, she conducted a farewell concert tour of Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Asia, South America, the United States, and Canada. On July 23 and 24, 2008, Mouskouri gave her two final 'Farewell Concert' performances at the ancient Herodes Atticus Theatre, in Athens, Greece, before a packed stadium, including Greece's Prime Minister and Athens mayor, plus the mayors of Berlin, Paris and Luxembourg, along with fans from around the world and thousands of her Athenian admirers.
  In 2010, in response to the financial crisis in Greece, Mouskouri announced that she would forgo her pension to contribute to the country's recovery. She commented: "Everywhere I see stories about my country going bankrupt. And people are aggressive about it. It's frightening. And it's painful for me. Nobody wants their country to be treated badly. It's frustrating and very sad."
  In late 2011, Mouskouri released two newly recorded CDs, the first featuring songs of the Greek Islands, recorded with other Greek singers, and the second featuring duets with French contemporaries. In late November 2011 Mouskouri sang again at a single concert, with guests, in Berlin, commemorating the 50th anniversary of her hit single "The White Rose of Athens". She then did a concert tour in Germany in 2012. At age 80, she embarked on a three-year Happy Birthday Tour and in 2018 had booked a five-month Forever Young Tour through parts of Europe and North America.
  In 2015 she was awarded with the Echo Music Prize for Outstanding achievements by the German music association Deutsche Phono-Akademie.
caption: The ancient Herodes Atticus Theatre, in Athens, Greece
exif: {"Image ImageDescription": "", "Image XResolution": "96", "Image YResolution": "96", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image Software": "Microsoft ICE v2.0.3.0", "Image DateTime": "2017:10:09 13:12:44", "Image Artist": "Berthold Werner", "Image Tag 0x4748": "[1, 0, 0, 0, 4, 0, 0, 0, 6, 0, 0, 0, 190, 123, 52, 64, 226, 124, 92, 64, 83, 134, 196, 63, 109, 78, 214, 63]", "Image Copyright": "GFDL", "Image ExifOffset": "338", "GPS GPSVersionID": "[2, 3, 0, 0]", "GPS GPSLatitudeRef": "N", "GPS GPSLatitude": "[37, 58273/1000, 0]", "GPS GPSLongitudeRef": "E", "GPS GPSLongitude": "[23, 86967/2000, 0]", "GPS GPSAltitudeRef": "0", "GPS GPSAltitude": "110", "GPS GPSTimeStamp": "[10, 12, 44]", "GPS GPSSatellites": "11", "GPS GPSStatus": "A", "GPS GPSMeasureMode": "3", "GPS GPSSpeedRef": "K", "GPS GPSSpeed": "41/100", "GPS GPSTrackRef": "T", "GPS GPSTrack": "5467/25", "GPS GPSImgDirectionRef": "T", "GPS GPSImgDirection": "9337/50", "GPS GPSMapDatum": "WGS-84", "GPS GPSProcessingMethod": "[85, 78, 73, 67, 79, 68, 69, 0, 0, 71, 0, 80, 0, 83]", "GPS GPSDate": "2017:10:09", "Image GPSInfo": "444", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "96", "Thumbnail YResolution": "96", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "833", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "4056", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2017:10:09 13:12:44", "EXIF DateTimeDigitized": "2017:10:09 13:12:44", "EXIF ColorSpace": "sRGB", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "6548", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "3132"}