The international singing star from Greece in one of the programmes from her series shown recently on BBC2 also featuring The Athenians and Dimitris Stayias
Trained as a serious musician at the Athens Conservatory, Nana Mouskouri was expelled from there, after her professor heard her singing jazz on Greek radio. This gave her her freedom to devote all her energies to her new-found idiom and in the space of a very few years she joined the handful of international stars who can pack halls across Europe and America.