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Ena (album)
''Ena'' (; "One") is the eighth studio album by the popular Greek artist Peggy Zina, recorded at Diogenes Studio and released on 8 November 2006, by Minos EMI. In August 2007, it was repackaged with Zina's single "Mystiko" and named ''Ena New Edition''. The song "Mystiko" was written for her wedding, where she sang the song to her husband at the reception. Track listing Singles The following songs from the album were released as radio singles and each featured a music video: "Ena" :"Ena" was the first single released from the album. A music video for the song was made, directed by Konstantinos Rigos. "Ego Ta Spao" :"Ego Ta Spao" was the second single released from the album and also has a music video directed by Rigos. The video was first shown on MAD TV (Greece), MAD TV on 31 January 2007. "Eimai Edo" :"Eimai Edo" was the third and final single from the album and also has a music video directed by Rigos. Charts The Special Edition of the album remained on the Cypriot Album ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Album
An album is a collection of audio recordings (e.g., music) issued on a medium such as compact disc (CD), Phonograph record, vinyl (record), audio tape (like 8-track cartridge, 8-track or Cassette tape, cassette), or digital distribution, digital. Albums of recorded sound were developed in the early 20th century as individual 78 rpm records (78s) collected in a bound book resembling a photo album; this format evolved after 1948 into single vinyl LP record, long-playing (LP) records played at rpm. The album was the dominant form of recorded music expression and consumption from the mid-1960s to the early 21st century, a period known as the ''album era''. Vinyl LPs are still issued, though album sales in the 21st-century have mostly focused on CD and MP3 formats. The 8-track tape was the first tape format widely used alongside vinyl from 1965 until being phased out by 1983, being gradually supplanted by the cassette tape throughout the 1970s and early 1980s; the popul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peggy Zina
Panagiota-Calliope Zina (; born 8 March 1975), known professionally as Peggy Zina (), is a Greece, Greek singer. She made her recording debut in 1995 with her Peggy Zina (album), self-titled album. She has since released twelve studio albums and is a high-profile artist in the Greek music industry. On 15 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked Zina the 24th top-certified female artist in the nation's phonographic era (since 1960), totalling nine (at the time) platinum and two gold records.''Chart Show: Your Countdown''. Alpha TV; aired 14 March 2010 Biography Early life Peggy Zina was born in Athens on March 8, 1975. MAD TV (music TV), MAD TV. Retrieved on April 4, 2008 She began piano lessons at the age of five and studied dancing, particularly the jazz genre. During her teens, Peggy Zina participated in many artistic school activities, including theater and choir. She graduated from the Jeanne D'Arc Academy of Athens. Her father, Giorgos Zinas, died when she was 14 years old at the age of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laïko
Laïko or laïkó (, ; "[song] of the people", "popular [song]"; ) is a Greece, Greek folk-pop music genre in accordance with the tradition of the Greeks, Greek people. Also referred to as "folk song" or "urban folk music" () in its plural form, Laïkó changed forms over the decades after the commercialization of Rebetiko music. Rebetiko and elafró tragoudi Until the 1930s the Greek discography was dominated by two musical genres: the Greek folk music () and the ''elafró tragoudi'' (, lit. "light[weight] song"). The latter was represented by musical ensemble, ensembles of singers/musicians or solo artists like Attik and Nikos Gounaris. It was the Greek version of the international popular music of the era. In the 1930s the first rebetiko recordings had a massive impact on Greek music. As Markos Vamvakaris stated, "we were the first to record ''laïká'' (popular) songs". In the years to follow this type of music, the first form of what is now called ''laïkó tragoúdi'', be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greek Language
Greek (, ; , ) is an Indo-European languages, Indo-European language, constituting an independent Hellenic languages, Hellenic branch within the Indo-European language family. It is native to Greece, Cyprus, Italy (in Calabria and Salento), southern Albania, and other regions of the Balkans, Caucasus, the Black Sea coast, Asia Minor, and the Eastern Mediterranean. It has the list of languages by first written accounts, longest documented history of any Indo-European language, spanning at least 3,400 years of written records. Its writing system is the Greek alphabet, which has been used for approximately 2,800 years; previously, Greek was recorded in writing systems such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary. The Greek language holds a very important place in the history of the Western world. Beginning with the epics of Homer, ancient Greek literature includes many works of lasting importance in the European canon. Greek is also the language in which many of the foundational texts ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Minos EMI
Minos EMI is a record label, record company based in Athens, Greece. The company serves as the Greek record label and offices of the multinational Universal Music Group. EMI is credited for founding the record business in Greece in the 1930s, by producing the first records and building the country's first recording studio. Founding of recorded music in Greece In 1930, British Columbia Graphophone Company and Gramophone Company, which a year later merged to form EMI Group, formed a partnership along with Greek investor Lambropoulos Brothers Limited to produce records in Greece. By 1931, company operations were in full swing and the first disc produced in Greece had been pressed under the company name ''EMIAL''. After five years of using the halls of large hotels to record songs, EMIAL built Greece's first recording studio and became the front runner in the Greek music industry for many years. The company continued to be incorporated as EMIAL, although it predominantly used the tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ta Prota Hronia
''Ta Prota Hronia'' () is a compilation album by the popular Greek artist Peggy Zina. It was released in 2005 by Sony BMG Greece and includes the songs of her first two albums: ''Peggy Zina'' and ''Anevaines'', which are part of the BMG BMG may refer to: Organizations Music publishing companies * Bertelsmann Music Group, a 1987–2008 division of Bertelsmann that was purchased by Sony on October 1, 2008 ** Sony BMG, a 2004–2008 joint venture of Bertelsmann and Sony that was pur ... Greece back catalogue. Track listing #"M'Ena Pseftiko Sougia" - 4:21 #"Anevaines" - 3:18 #"Sinnefiasmeni Kyriaki" - 4:26 #"Psihi Mou Moni" - 3:19 #"Den Eimai Tipota" - 2:59 #"O Kaliteros Tropos" - 3:35 #"Leme Leme" - 3:08 #"Me Parakoloutheis" - 3:44 #"Dikeologies" - 3:18 #"Apomonothikes" - 3:13 #"Μythos" - 3:17 #"Alkionides Meres" - 4:27 #"Den Boro Na Filiso Kanena" (Opos Filo Esena) - 3:17 #"Mas Ta' Pan Ki Alli" - 3:05 #"An Pas Me Alli" - 3:29 #"Kai Kartero" - 3:59 #"Kratise Me" - 3:34 #"Hanomai" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trekse
''Trekse'' (Greek: ''Τρέξε''; ) is the ninth studio album by the Greek singer Peggy Zina, released on 4 December 2007, by Minos EMI. The album achieved Gold certification from its first week and made entered the Greek Albums Chart at number two. Track listing Chart performance The album achieved Gold certification from its first week and entered the Greek Albums Chart at #2, behind Mihalis Hatzigiannis's live album. The album certified platinum in its sixth week on the chart and Zina received the platinum certification on January 22, 2008. ''MAD TV''. Retrieved on January 24, 2008 In its seventh week, the album disappeared from the chart before re-entering at number 47 and one week later going up to number 27. The album was placed seventh in the IFPI annual albums chart for 2007. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
MAD TV (Greece)
MAD TV (also known as MAD) is a Greek television network that broadcasts music related programming including video clips, music news, and interviews as well as concert footage. It was the first music station in Greece, launched on June 6, 1996, and is run by Andreas Kouris. History In May 2000, MAD TV launched the first Greek music portal, which provides its users with the most up to date worldwide music information along with brand new Internet services. MAD TV also offers a wide range of Retail and Business-to-business, B2B services to the public: Go MAD (interactive service) and MAD Music (5 music-interactive audio channels) available on Nova (Forthnet), Nova (DTH satellite platform in Greece), MAD Shop (online CD shop) through their website, Nova (Forthnet), Nova and i-mode mobile telephony, MAD Scanner (mobile service for acoustic fingerprint) through Vodafone Greece, Real-time video streaming of MAD TV’s program for 2G and 3G mobile phones, mobile content (ring-tones, lo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Christos Dantis
Christos Dantis (; born Christos Vlachakis, 26 September 1966), is a Greek multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, lyricist, and record producer best known for his hits such as "To Palio Mou Palto" and "Ena Tragoudi Akoma" and later for co-writing the song " My Number One" for Elena Paparizou, winning the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 for Greece. Career Early music career Christos Dantis started playing music in front of an audience when in his early teens. He sang and played either guitar or bass guitar, while also experimenting with the drums, in various music genre bands such as rock, funk, soul, R&B, metal etc. It was in the 1986–87 period of the Music Stage Taboo in Athens, when during the auditions for new singers to complement the program of main singers Tania Tsanaklidou and Dimitra Galani, composer George Hatzinasios was the "godfather" of his name Dantis. During that period Christos sang on commercial advertising jingles while meeting with many influential p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Music Video
A music video is a video that integrates a song or an album with imagery that is produced for promotion (marketing), promotional or musical artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a music marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings. These videos are typically shown on music television and on streaming video sites like YouTube, or more rarely shown theatrically. They can be commercially issued on home video, either as video albums or video singles. The format has been described by various terms including "illustrated song", "filmed insert", "promotional (promo) film", "promotional clip", "promotional video", "song video", "song clip", "film clip", "video clip", or simply "video". While musical short, musical short films were popular as soon as recorded sound was introduced to theatrical film screenings in the 1920s, the music video rose to prominence in the 1980s when American TV channel MTV based its format around the medium. Mus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Albums
The following is a list of albums, EPs An extended play (EP) is a Sound recording and reproduction, musical recording that contains more tracks than a Single (music), single but fewer than an album. Contemporary EPs generally contain up to eight tracks and have a playing time of 1 ..., and mixtapes released in 2006. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2006 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2006 albums Albums 2006 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
