Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri
Nana Mouskouri, born Iōánna Moúschourion October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, Greece, is a Greek singer. She was known as "Nána" to her friends and family as a child...
NationalityGreek
ProfessionJazz Singer
Date of Birth13 October 1934
CityChania, Greece
cook drank dry eat oil secret
The secret is to cook the aubergines the day before and let them dry of all the oil they drank in cooking. When you cook aubergine, they eat a lot of oil. It can be very heavy.
answering asking certain dylan life
When I heard his first songs, Dylan was answering certain questions that I had all my life been asking myself.
children eye giving
I always try to see things with children's eyes. Are they happy? Sad? What do they need? Everywhere I went, I realized that children are society's victims ... We have a duty to speak to political leaders, to influence people to give these children a better future.
husband lunch people
I left the table where there were important people and had lunch with my husband and a few friends. The reception was organised in my honour, so it was rather amusing.
mouths attention habit
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
singing energy reason
My energy to sing, I get it from my singing. Singing was not a reason to make a living. This is the only thing I wanted to do.
thinking singing grew
I grew up thinking that singing was my security.
singing
When I was singing, everybody liked me.
love song prove
With my songs I tried to prove that there is love.
country language respectful
I thought it was respectful to each country to sing in their language.
children my-children
All children are my children.
children giving luck
I have been so lucky to receive so much love from those who enjoy my music, that I feel I have to give as much of it as I can back to children.