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Article: Nostalgia tinges Mouskouri's farewell visit
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- Winnipeg Free Press
- Article date:
- May 11, 2006
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By Melissa Martin
LAST night at the Pantages Playhouse theatre, Winnipeggers bade adieu (and adios, and auf wiedersehen, and arrivederci) to one of pop music's all-time greats.
After a 48-year career, Nana Mouskouri is hanging up her trademark square-rimmed glasses and taking a greatly deserved break.
Since starting her career singing folk and pop tunes in her native Greece, the multilingual singer has sold almost 300 million albums worldwide, making her the top-selling female artist of all time.
Though Mouskouri was never as powerful a presence in North America as she was in Europe, a passionate core of fans embraced her sparkling renditions of pop and jazz standards.
So Mouskouri is ...