Shortly before her 90th birthday, the Greek Nana Mouskouri, icon of popular song in the world and former MEP, announced that she wanted to say goodbye to the stage in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel broadcast on Thursday. “I’m going to do a few more performances, and then that will be it,” she said in this interview published in the online edition of the weekly. “I think I’ve done enough,” she added. “I can’t pretend to be a young woman. I don’t want to make people suffer. I have no right to go on stage and sing badly, even if the audience applauded me for it,” she said.
In 2008, Nana Mouskouri, who recorded more than 1,500 songs, said goodbye during a concert in Athens, but the following year she returned to the stage, confiding that she was bored too far from her audience . On October 13, Mouskouri will celebrate his 90th birthday. On this occasion an album of some of his successes re-recorded by an orchestra will be released. “When I hear these recordings, I can’t help but cry,” she told Der Spiegel.
