Nana Mouskouri What Now My Love: Nana Mouskouri in New York / Nana Mouskouri In French

Ionna Moschouri, known professionally as Nana Mouskouri, was born in Chania, Crete, Greece, on October 13, 1934 (she is 83 at this writing). Her career as a singer includes over 200 albums and singles in 10 different languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish, Hebrew, Welsh, Mandarin Chinese and Corsican. She became well known throughout Europe for the song The White Rose of Athens, which would mark her first record to sell over one million copies. In 1963, she represented Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest. 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. Je chante avec toi Libert, recorded in 1981, is perhaps her biggest hit to date, performed in at least five languages. Presented on this release are two of her early albums: What Now My Love Nana Mouskouri in New York [issued in USA as The Girl from Greece Sings] (Fontana MGF 27504), produced by Quincy Jones, on which she sings in English, and Nana Mouskouri (Fontana 660 274 MR), which finds her singing in French. The latter includes Roses blanches de Courfou, a French version of her aforementioned hit The White Rose of Athens, of which the English version has been added as a bonus.