Okay, I’m lazy this week because of some business meetings I need to attend, so I’m posting some tracks from Nana Mouskouri again. I just can’t get enough of this voice.

I bought this in the dollar vinyl bin at Amoeba Music. Its made for the French-Canadian market as the LP’s made in Canada and every song is in French. There’s something kitschy yet exotic about hearing a Greek bouzouki backing up a French voice in the track ‘Quatre Soleils.’
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I discovered Nana Mouskouri while going through the $1 used record bins at Amoeba Music last year. When I saw the cover with her face I immediately saw where Lisa Loeb got her looks from. I grabbed 2 albums, both in French, and immediately got hooked to her melancholy-yet-gorgeous vocal stylings.

Nana is actually Greek and has been world-reknown since the 1960’s. She’s recorded many albums in Greek, French, English, Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, and Portuguese. Talk about knowing your marketplace. She’s sold more than 300 million records internationally, recording about 1,500 songs in 15 languages on 450 albums. She has more than 300 gold and platinum albums worldwide.

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