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Nana Mouskouri was born Ioanna Mouschouri on October 13, 1934 in Chania, Crete, Greece, the youngest of two daughters, to parents Constantine and Alice Mouskouri. As a toddler, her family moved to Athens, where her father worked as a film projectionist, thereby also giving his daughter access to a theater where she could sing after moviegoers had departed.
While still a child, Mouskouri lived under the Nazi occupation of Greece, lacking schooling, witnessing executions and enduring limited access to food, with the family at times forced to subsist on snails and frogs. Both Nana, her nickname, and older sister Eugenia were skilled singers, and both eventually studied at the Athens Conservatory. With the girls' father having a gambling problem via which he lost much of his money, the family could only afford to keep one of the siblings at the school, with Eugenia choosing to leave so Nana could continue to study.Though studying opera, Mouskouri had an avowed interest in jazz and American standards, singing with a band at night and being influenced by the likes of Ella Fitzgerald, Judy Garland, Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra. When the conservatory found out about her jazz leanings, she was summarily prevented from taking her final exams. Yet Mouskouri was undeterred, and in 1959 she won the Greek Song Festival singing “Kapou Iparchi Agapi Mou,” co-written by composer Manos Hadjidakis. Mouskouri had already worked with Hadjidakis on an EP, and the two would have a fruitful working relationship, with his Mouskouri-sung tunes winning the festival again in 1960.In 1961, Mouskouri’s recording of "Weisse Rosen aus Athen,

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