Nana Mouskouri

Born in 1934, Ioanna Mouskouri broke through in the early 1960s when "Weiße Rosen aus Athen" sold over a million copies and made her a fixture on European radio. She took eighth place for Luxembourg at Eurovision in 1963, then sang the theme for The Umbrellas of Cherbourg through her friendship with Michel Legrand. From 1968 to 1976 the BBC gave her a show of her own, and her multilingual range turned singles like "Je chante avec toi Liberté" and "Only Love" into hits that charted from Germany to the UK. She became a UNICEF spokesperson in 1993, served in the European Parliament from 1994 to 1…