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Travma
''Travma'' is a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi released in Greece and Cyprus on April 14, 1997. In Greece it became Gold within 12 days and 3× Platinum within 6 months, becoming one of the most commercially successful albums of the Greek 1990s. The album also includes a duet with fellow Greek pop star Sakis Rouvas. Australian edition and Re-releases ''Travma'' was released in Australia with English-language liner notes (transliterating its title to ''Trauma'', to match to the Australian audience) and packaging in mid-1997, to help promote the Australian leg of the ''Trauma'' tour and her recent English-language single debut for "Forgive Me This". The album was released in a special tour edition featuring a bonus disc with five songs from previous albums. Vissi promoted the album and tour by participating in a high-profile media campaign including press, radio, national television interviews, and in-store signings. In 2008, Greek newspaper ''Isotimia'' was granted permission t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Vissi
Anna Vissi ( el, 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 M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antidoto
''Antidoto'' (Greek: ''Αντιδοτο''; en, Antidote) is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi released in Greece and Cyprus in 1998. The album reached 4× Platinum status and is 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 from the music video of Erotevmenaki. This album includes a duet with Paris Karagiannopoulos titled "Magava To ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikos Karvelas
Nikos Karvelas ( el, Νίκος Καρβέλας; born Nikos Leonardos on 8 September 1951) is a Greek songwriter, producer and singer. He has sold millions of records as a producer and is most recognizable for his three-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, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klima Tropiko
''Klima Tropiko'' (Greek: ''Κλίμα Τροπικό''; en, Tropical Climate) is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi released in Greece and Cyprus in February 1996. It reached 2× Platinum, acclaiming both critical and commercial success and establishing Vissi's image as a pop icon and contemporary artist in both Greece and Cyprus. In 2000,Hülya Avşar covered the song in Turkish as "Sevdim" ("I loved"). 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. Music Music and lyrics are by Nikos Karvelas, Apostolos Diavolikis, and Natalia Germanou. Track listing # "Trelenome (Klima Tropiko)" (I go crazy (Tropical climate)) # "Ke Ti Egin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sakis Rouvas
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas ( el, Αναστάσιος "Σάκης" Ρουβάς, ; born 5 January 1972), also known mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek singer, film and television actor, businessman and former pole vaulter and model. Born in Corfu, he won medals on the national athletics team during the 1980s. Rouvas began a musical career in 1991 as one of Greece's first dance-pop performers. His tenor vocals, complex choreography, costumes, and technological advancements have been credited with transforming music videos and live performances. Rouvas is noted for avoiding domestic music, attaining success for a non-laïko or - éntekhno artist, and for breaking cultural, social, artistic, and generational barriers in Greece and Cyprus. During the early 1990s, Rouvas signed with PolyGram Records and won the Thessaloniki Song Festival. Despite five commercially successful albums, his personal life (including his military service and 1997 Greek-Turkish peace concert, which damaged ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Columbia Records
Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese Conglomerate (company), conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the Graphophone#Commercialization, American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Laboratory and Bureau#Commercialization of phonograph patents, Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, its recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records International, CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records. Artists who have recorded for Columbia include AC/DC, Adele, Aerosmith, Julie And ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kati Simveni
''Kati Simveni'' ( el, Κάτι Συμβαίνει; en, Something happens) is the name of a Greek album by singer Anna Vissi. The album was released in Greece and Cyprus by CBS Greece in 1985. This album includes her signature song "Dodeka". The album reached gold status. Background '' Na 'Hes Kardias moderate chart performance at the time brought sceptiscism to Vissi's label executives over Nikos Karvelas's competence to entirely produce a successful album. As a part of the production team instead, Greek composer and musician Antonis Vardis was recruited, in an attempt to diversify the sound of the new album, as to appeal to younger generations. Vardis was already known, having collaborated with top-profile artists, such as George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, Vasilis Papakonstantinou, Dimitra Galani and Giannis Poulopoulos and also helping new artists being introduced to the audience, like Manolis Lidakis and Eleni Dimou. He was also an old partner to Vissi, being on her shows in Pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1997 Albums
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Anna Vissi Albums
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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 chart is sponsored by Cyta Hellas. 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. Prior to the introduction of industry charts by IFPI Greece, unreliable chart ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ARIA Charts
The ARIA Charts are the main Australian 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, 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, branded the ''Countdown'' chart, was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Video Collection (Anna Vissi Video)
''The Video Collection'' is the name of a music video DVD compilation by popular Greek singer Anna Vissi, released by Sony Music in 2001 in Greece and Australia. The DVD contains music videos from Anna Vissi Anna Vissi ( el, 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 ...'s career up to that point, selected by Vissi herself. Music videos # "Pseftika" (False) # "Adistrofi Metrisi" (Countdown) # "Ena Sou Leo" (One thing) # "Fos" (Light) # "Sta '79" (At' 76) # "Demones" (Demons) # "Den Thelo Na Xereis" (I don't want you to know) # "Emeis" (Us) # "Akoma Mia" (Another one) # "Lambo" (I glow) # "Eleni" (Helen) # "Eimai Poli Kala" (I'm OK) # "Metra" (Count) # "Vre Kouto" (Stupid) # "Mavra Gialia" (Black Glasses) # "Forgive Me This" # "Mou Anikeis" (I own you or You're mine) # "Erotevmena ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
