Few artists have experienced such longevity: a few days before her 90th birthday, the Greek Nana Mouskouri, icon of popular song around the world, announced that she would soon say goodbye to the stage in an interview granted to the German magazine Der Spiegel and broadcast Thursday October 3, 2024.
“I think I’ve done enough,” she said in this interview published in the online edition of the weekly. “I’m going to do a few more performances, and then that will be it”
“I don’t want to make people suffer”
“I can’t pretend to be a young woman,” added the woman who was born in 1934. “I don’t want to make people suffer. I have no right to go on stage and sing badly, even if the audience applauds me for it.”
In 2008, Nana Mouskouri, who recorded more than 1,500 songs, said goodbye during a concert in Athens (Greece)… but she returned to the stage the following year, confiding that she was “too bored”. far from his audience.
An orchestral release
On October 13, Nana Mouskouri will celebrate her 90th birthday. On this occasion an album of some of his greatest hits re-recorded by an orchestra will be released. “When I hear these recordings, I can’t help but cry,” she also confided to Der Spiegel.
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Her last public appearance is quite recent since the Francophile singer performed in Athens, in April 2024, the Greek and French anthems for the passing of the Olympic flame from Olympia, reminds BFMTV.