Anna Vissi

Anna Vissi (2007)

Anna Vissi ( Greek Άννα Βίσση , born December 20, 1957 in Larnaka , Cyprus ) is a Greek-Cypriot pop singer .

Life

Vissi grew up with her parents Nestor and Sophia Vissi and started singing at the age of three. She founded the folk band "The Vissi Sisters" with her sisters Lia and Nicki . In 1973 she won a Cypriot talent competition and moved to Athens ( Greece ). After graduating from high school, she signed her first record deal and recorded some pieces of music with famous Greek singers such as Giorgos Dalaras and Haris Alexiou .

In 1980 she took part in the Eurovision Song Contest entitled Auto-Stop for Greece. She was accompanied there by the three-member choir The Epikouri , which was founded only for this purpose. She reached number 13. Two years later she took part again in the song contest, this time for Cyprus with the song Mono i agapi , which brought her fifth place. In 1983 she married producer and musician Nikos Karvelas , from whom she has been divorced since 2005.

At the Eurovision Song Contest 2006 in Athens, her third participation in the competition, she took 9th place with the song Everything .

Discography and related awards

Greek albums

• 1977: As kanoume apopse mian arhi
• 1979: Kitrino galazio - double platinum
• 1980: Nai - Gold
• 1981: Anna Vissi - Gold
• 1982: Eimai to simera kai eisai to hthes
• 1984: Na 'hes kardia - gold
• 1985: Kati simveni - gold
• 1986: I epomeni kinisi - double platinum
• 1988: Torah - Gold
• 1988: Empnefsi! - Gold
• 1989: Fotia - platinum
• 1990: Eimai - Gold
• 1992: Emeis - Gold
• 1992: Lambo - platinum
• 1994: Re! - Gold
• 1995: O! Kypros - platinum
• 1996: Climate Tropiko - triple platinum
• 1997: Travma - triple platinum
• 1998: Antidoto - triple platinum
• 2000: Kravgi - 7 times platinum ( GR 1st place )
• 2002: X - double platinum ( GR place 1 )
• 2003: Paraksenes eikones - double platinum
• 2005: nylon - platinum
• 2008: Apagorevmeno - double platinum
• 2010: Agapi ine esi - gold
• 2015: Sinentefxi - Gold
• 2018: Hotel Ερμού live 2015–2018 ( GR place 1 )
• 2019: Ηλιοτρόπια ( GR place 1 )

English albums

• 2000: Everything I Am - Gold
• 2013: Untitled English Album

Singles

• 2000: Agapi ipervoliki - 4 times platinum
• 2000: Everything I Am - Platinum
• 2004: Remixes 2004 - Gold
• 2005: Call Me - Gold
• 2006: Everything - Gold ( GR 1st place )
• 2012: Tiranniemai

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1. ↑ Current Greek Charts (IFPI Greece)

Web links

Commons : Anna Vissi  - Collection of Images

• Anna Vissi's recordings in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website
• Anna Vissi in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Anna Vissi at Discogs (English)