MOUSKOURI, NANA - Memoirs

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson. 2007, First Pbk.Ed.. (ISBN: 0297844709) Trade Paperback. For more than 40 years Nana Mouskouri has been a global singing sensation, from her earliest childhood memories of mid-Thirties Greece to her unstoppable rise to the summit of her profession. She tells of life as a child, experiencing the horrors of war and privation, victimised by bitter parental discord, stigmatised by her father's fatal addiction to gambling. She was a shy inhibited teenager with a passion for singing, a girl compelled to choose between her love of classical music and her fascination with popular song. As a highly successful adult, she has been racked by uncertainty and the torments of love, a woman struggling to balance music - her raison d'etre - with her role as wife and mother. Here she describes the life of the star we all know, from her beginnings in the nightclubs of Athens to her triumphs on the world's most glittering stages. Nana launches us into her international tours..how she fought to win over audiences everywhere. In Britain. she enjoyed dazzling success after her first English album .[and] twenty-three of her titles appeared in the charts..Hers is a rich and astonishing life..intimate, rich in humanity and music, 289p.index .. As New.