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Name

Anna Vissi

Biography

Anna Vissi (Greek: Άννα Βίσση, born 20 December 1957), is a Greek Cypriot singer and songwriter. She studied music at conservatories and performed locally before moving to the professional scene in Athens, in 1973, where she signed with Minos and simultaneously collaborated with other musical artists and released promotional singles of her own while studying at the University of Athens.

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 eponymous debut album. Since the 1980s, Vissi began a nearly exclusive collaboration with songwriter Nikos Karvelas, to whom she was married from 1983 to 1992 and had one child with, resulting in one of the most successful music partnerships in the nation's history. Together they created the label CarVi, which resulted in legal issues with EMI Greece, and they then moved to CBS Records Greece, which later became Sony Music Greece.

Over the course of her career she has released over two dozen albums, most of which have been certified at least gold in the two countries and has also starred in three theatrical productions and briefly ventured into television and radio. Vissi experimented with different styles of music; after becoming one of the first Greek artists to introduce Western pop and dance elements into Greek laïko and entehno, she became one of the most prominent portrayers of the laïko-pop hybrid genre and culture that was thriving from the mid-1990s into the mid-2000s. She landed her biggest commercial success with Fotia (1989), followed by the double Kravgi (2000), which became the eighth best-selling album of all time in terms of units, while five others – Kitrino Galazio (1979), I Epomeni Kinisi (1985), Klima Tropiko (1996), Travma (1997), and Antidoto (1998) – have also achieved six figure sales.

She has a large number of successful singles most of which have become classics, including her signature song "Dodeka", "Methismeni Politia", "Oso Exo Foni", "Pragmata", "Agapi Ipervoliki", "Psihedelia", "Ta Mathitika Hronia", "Treno", "Stin Pira", "Atmosfaira Ilektrismeni" , "Gkazi" and many many more. Through the years she kept a strong fan base, sold-out tours[2] and shows (as was her latest shows in Rex in winter 2011–12 and Hotel Ermou 2015-2016 which was the most successful of the year).

Vissi has won six Arion Music Awards, 15 Pop Corn Music Awards, and nine MAD Video Music Awards. Vissi has received 37 Platinum and 16 Gold certifications from IFPI Greece and has become one of the country's best-selling artists of all time, having sold over 10 million records worldwide and is one of the country's top earning artists Alpha TV ranked Vissi as the second top-certified female artist in Greece in the phonographic era (since 1960), behind Haris Alexiou, while Forbes listed her as the 15th most powerful and influential celebrity in Greece and fourth highest ranked singer.

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Name

Άννα Βίσση

Biography

Η Άννα Βίσση (Λάρνακα, 20 Δεκεμβρίου 1957) είναι Ελληνοκύπρια τραγουδίστρια και μουσικός. Ξεκίνησε να τραγουδά επαγγελματικά το 1973, σε ηλικία 16 ετών, από τα 19 όταν μετακόμισε στην Ελλάδα και υπέγραψε δισκογραφικό συμβόλαιο με τη Minos EMI. Το 1977 κέρδισε την 1η θέση στο 19ο Φεστιβάλ Τραγουδιού Θεσσαλονίκης με το τραγούδι Ας Κάνουμε Απόψε Μιαν Αρχή και κυκλοφόρησε τον πρώτο της προσωπικό δίσκο με τον ίδιο τίτλο. Από τη δεκαετία του '80, ξεκίνησε σχεδόν αποκλειστική συνεργασία με το μουσικοσυνθέτη και στιχουργό Νίκο Καρβέλα.

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