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Kravgi
''Kravgi'' (Greek: ''Κραυγή''; English: ''Scream'') is the 20th studio album by Greek singer Anna Vissi. It was released on 23 November 2000 by Sony Music Greece, and later was released by Sony Music in Turkey in 2001 as well as in Australia and New Zealand in 2002. The album was received seven times platinum certification in Greece and Cyprus, and platinum in Turkey. It was the best-selling album of 2000 in Greece and Cyprus. In Australia, it charted within the top 75 of the official Australian charts and is the best selling Greek album in the country. Today, the album stands as one of the most successful albums of all time in Greece with sales passed over 175,000 copies (350,000 discs). This album, along with English-speaking album Everything I Am, released the same year, showcased a significant change over Anna's stylistic and musical selections, expanding her image as a pop icon and contemporary artist as promoted in the mid-1990s and onwards. Release After the relea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Vissi
Anna Vissi (, , ; born 20 December 1957) is a Greek Cypriot singer. She studied music at conservatories and performed locally before moving to the professional scene in Athens, in 1973, where she signed with Minos EMI#Merger with Minos Matsas & Son, Minos and simultaneously collaborated with other musical artists and released promotional singles of her own while studying at the University of Athens. She has represented Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest, Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest in Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 1980, 1980 and Greece in the Eurovision Song Contest 2006, 2006, and Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest, Cyprus in Cyprus in the Eurovision Song Contest 1982, 1982. Vissi established herself in the recording industry by winning the Thessaloniki Song Festival in 1977 with the song "As Kanoume Apopse Mian Arhi" and releasing the As Kanoume Apopse Mian Arhi, eponymous debut album. Since the 1980s, Vissi began a nearly exclusive collaboration with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Everything I Am (album)
''Everything I Am'' is the title of the debut English-language album by Cypriot singer Anna Vissi. It was created under Vissi's affiliation with Sony Music Entertainment international who granted her collaboration with successful American songwriters and producers. However, the album was never officially released in the United States after Sony Music Entertainment decided to withdraw from supporting Vissi's global career expansion. The album was subsequently first released in Greece and Cyprus on October 24, 2000, by Columbia Records. This album, along with Greek-language and commercially successful album '' Kravgi'' released the same year, showcased a significant change over Vissi's stylistic and musical selections, expanding her image as a pop icon and contemporary artist as promoted in the mid-1990s and onwards. The album was certified gold in Greece, and platinum in Cyprus. Album information Release The album was released internationally in select countries through Sony Music E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Karvelas
Nikos Karvelas (; born 8 September 1951) is a Greek musician, composer, singer, songwriter, record producer and author. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his four-decade-long collaboration with Anna Vissi, while some of his other well-known collaborations include Tolis Voskopoulos and Sakis Rouvas. Karvelas has released multiple personal studio albums that have had mild to big success. In 2012, Alpha TV ranked Karvelas as the 13th top-certified composer in Greece in the phonographic era. Early life Karvelas was born in Piraeus. When he was five years old, his parents bought him his first piano. He started to play popular songs and composed his first melodies. During the 1970s, he studied law at the University of Athens. Karvelas created his first rock band influenced by famous rock bands like the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. He started to become known at the end of the 1970s. In the early 1980s, Karvelas met his muse, Vissi, and a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
X (Anna Vissi Album)
''X'', a reference to the letter Chi in the Greek alphabet, is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi released 2002 in Greece and Cyprus by Sony Music Greece. The album reached 3× platinum in Greece and 3× platinum in Cyprus. It was also released in Turkey by Sony Music Turkey. In 2019, the album was selected for inclusion in the Panik Gold box set ''The Legendary Recordings 1982-2019''. The release came after Panik's acquisition rights of Vissi's back catalogue from her previous record company Sony Music Greece. This box set was printed on a limited edition of 500 copies containing CD releases of all of her albums from 1982 to 2019 plus unreleased material. Track listing # "Tasis Aftoktonias" (Suicidal tendencies) # "X" # "Se Zilevo" (I'm jealous of you) # "Martirio" (Duet with Yiannis Parios) (Martyrdom) # "Sinharitiria" (Congratulations) # "Pai Teliose" (It's over) # "Tifli Empistosini" (Blind trust) # "Ta Radiofona" (The radios) # "Ekplixi" (Surprise) # "Aipnies" ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katy Garbi
Katerina "Katy" Garbi (, ; born 8 June 1961) is a Greek singer. Her career has spanned over 35 years with over 2 million records sold in Greece and abroad. Garbi's discography is marked by several multi-platinum releases, including ''Arhizo Polemo'' (1996) and ''Evaisthisies'' (1997), two of the best-selling albums of the decade. Garbi represented Greece in the annual Eurovision Song Contest in Eurovision Song Contest 1993, 1993 with the song "Ellada, chora tou fotos", taking ninth place. She later struck her biggest commercial success with ''To Kati'' (2000) in terms of unit sales. Over the years, Garbi has won 11 ''Pop Corn'' Music Awards, including three for ''Album of the Year'', and one Arion Music Award. On 14 March 2010, Alpha TV ranked her among the top-certified female artists in Greece's phonographic era (since 1960).''Chart Show: Your Countdown''. Alpha TV. Airdate: 14 March 2010 Early life Katy Garbi began her singing career with her younger sister Liana, as the "Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Agapi Ipervoliki
''Agapi ipervoliki'' (Greek: ''Αγάπη Υπερβολική''; English: ''Excessive love'') is an EP (CD single) by the Cypriot singer Anna Vissi. It was released on 15 July 2000 by Sony Music Greece and received quadruple-platinum certification for the sale of 100,000 units, prior to the album ''Kravgis release. It was Vissi's most successful release to this point in Greece and Greece's fourth most successful CD single ever. Tracklist Singles The following singles were officially released to radio stations, some of them with music videos, and gained airplay. "Agapi Ipervoliki" was voted as the eighth best video in MAD's Countdown ''Top 40 Best Videos'' in 10 Mad Years on 1 January 2007. # "Agapi ipervoliki" # "De me agapas" # "Kaka paidia" # "Ola ta lefta" Credits Credits adapted from liner notes. Personnel * Manos Govatzidakis – programming (3) * Nikos Karvelas Nikos Karvelas (; born 8 September 1951) is a Greek musician, composer, singer, songwriter, recor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antidoto
''Antidoto'' (Greek: ''Αντίδοτο''; English: ''Antidote'') is the nineteenth studio album by famous Greek singer, Anna Vissi. It was released on 1 April 1998 in Greece and Cyprus and certified platinum in a week, but later reached double-platinum status, selling over 140,000 units. It was the first album in Greek music history to sell 80,000 copies in the first week of its release. The album was also released in international packaging in France, Germany and South Africa. Album information Background The album was recorded in London during 1997 where Nikos Karvelas lived at the time. When Vissi was performing in Athens and would head off to London on her days off to record the album. "Gazi" was the first song she presented to the public during her gigs in Gazi Club in Athens in winter 1997–1998 season. The cover of ''Antidoto'' was made by a photograph from the booklet of the album Travma which was reversed and edited. Additional photos in the booklet were captured fro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2000s Greek-language Albums
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter of the Latin alphabet, used in the English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and other latin alphabets worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a "sh" phoneme, so the derived Greek letter Sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''Samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ), "to hiss". The original name of the letter "Sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Vissi Albums
Anna may refer to: People Surname and given name * Anna (name) Mononym * Anna the Prophetess, in the Gospel of Luke * Anna of East Anglia, King (died c.654) * Anna (wife of Artabasdos) (fl. 715–773) * Anna (daughter of Boris I) (9th–10th century) * Anna (Anisia) (fl. 1218 to 1221) * Anna of Poland, Countess of Celje (1366–1425) * Anna of Cilli (1386–1416) * Anna, Grand Duchess of Lithuania (died 1418) * Anne of Austria, Landgravine of Thuringia (1432–1462) * Anna of Nassau-Dillenburg (died 1514) * Anna, Duchess of Prussia (1576–1625) * Anna of Russia (1693–1740) * Anna, Lady Miller (1741–1781) * Anna Russell, Duchess of Bedford (1783–1857) * Anna, Lady Barlow (1873–1965) * Anna (feral child) (1932–1942) * Anna (rapper) (born 2003) * Anna (singer) (born 1987) * C. N. Annadurai (1909–1969), Indian politician, known as Anna (elder brother) * Sunil Shetty (born 1961), Indian actor, known by his nickname Anna Places Australia * Hundred of Anna, a cadastral d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IFPI Greece
International Federation of the Phonographic Industry Greece, or simply IFPI Greece, is the Greek branch of the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) and is the official charts provider and recording sales certification body for Greece. The association compiles and publishes a Top 75 album sales chart. The domestic trade name of IFPI Greece is "Ένωση Ελλήνων Παραγωγών Ηχογραφημάτων" (ΕΕΠΗ) ( English: Association of Greek Producers of Phonograms GPP. Despite that, 'IFPI Greece' is the name used to refer to the association and the name it is branded under. IFPI Greece charts History IFPI Greece founded the first official music charts in Greece in 1989. There were two top 20 albums charts, one for domestic and the other for foreign repertoire. The broadcast rights of the charts were acquired by ANT1 radio, and the printing rights by the '' Pop & Rock magazine''. Prior to the introduction of industry charts by IFPI Gre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian record chart, music sales charts, issued weekly by the Australian Recording Industry Association. The charts are a record of the highest selling songs and albums in various genres in Australia. ARIA became the official Australian music chart in June 1988, succeeding the Kent Music Report, which had been Australia's national music sales charts since 1974. History The ''Go-Set'' charts were Australia's first national singles and albums charts, published from 5 October 1966 until 24 August 1974. Succeeding ''Go-Set'', the Kent Music Report began issuing the national top 100 charts in Australia from May 1974. The compiler, David Kent (historian), David Kent, also published Australia's national charts from 1940 to 1974 in a retrospective fashion using state-based data. In mid-1983, the Australian Recording Industry Association commenced licensing the Kent Music Report chart. The first printed national top 50 chart available in record stores, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
