''Travma'' is a Greek album by singer

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 ...

released in

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and

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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

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1990s. The album also includes a duet with fellow Greek pop star

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 Cor ...

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,

newspaper ''Isotimia'' was granted permission to release ''Travma'' as a

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, parting its ''Megales Ihografiseis'' ("Great recordings") series of selected albums of Greek recording artists. 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

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and

Natalia Germanou Natalia Germanou ( el, Ναταλία Γερμανού; born 22 June 1965 ) is a Greek songwriter, television hostess, radio producer and journalist. Germanou has written lyrics for many popular singers such as Anna Vissi, Despina Vandi, Mihalis ...

(tracks 4, 5, 10).

Track listing

# "Travma" (Trauma) # "Eki" (There) # "Ntrepome" (I'm ashamed) # "Siga!" (Slowly!) # "Na 'Se Kala" (Be well) # "To Katalaves?" (Got it?) # "Me Niazi" (I do care) # "Mavra Gialia" (Sunglasses) # "Eprepe" (I should have) # "Apolito Keno" (Absolute emptiness) # "To Megalitero Soukse" (The biggest hit) # "Thanatos Ine I Agapi" (Love is death) # "Me Halai" (It makes me feel bad) # "Se Thelo, Me Thelis" (Duet with

) (I want you, you want me) # "Se Thimame" (I remember you)

Singles

# "Travma" # "Mavra Gialia" # "Na' Se Kala"

Australian release

Disc 1 # "Travma" # "Eki" # "Ntrepome" # "Siga" # "Na' Se Kala" # "To Katalaves?" # "Me Niazi" # "Mavra Gialia" # "Eprepe" # "Apolito Keno" # "To Megalitero Soukse" # "Thanatos Ine I Agapi" # "Me Halai" # "Se Thelo, Me Thelis" (Duet with

) # "Se Thimame" Disc 2

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'' # "Sentonia" (from the album ''

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 suc ...

'') # "Trelenome" (from the album ''

'') # "Amin" (from the album ''

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'') # "Dodeka" (from the album ''

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'') # "Lambo" (from the album '' Lambo'')

Music videos

"Travma", "Na 'Se Kala", and "Mavra Gialia" were released on promotional videos during 1997, all directed by Vangelis Kalaitzis and aired in local

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. In 2001, "Mavra Gialia" was selected for digital release on Vissi's '' The Video Collection''.

Credits and personnel

;Personnel *Christina Anagnostopoulou - backing vocals *Joey Balin - guitar, keyboards on tracks 8, 12 *Nikos Chatzopoulos - violin *Achileas Diamantis - guitar on track 12 *Vassilis Eleftheropoulos - backing vocals *

- lyrics, backing vocals *Spyros Glenis - percussions *

- music, lyrics, acoustic guitar, backing *Charalambos Kemanetzidis - keyboards *Dimitris Koliakoudakis - classic guitar *Konstantinos - backing vocals *Takis Kouvatseas - drums *Yiannis Lionakis - guitars, bouzouki, lute, tzouras, baglamas, üti *Kostas Miliotakis - keyboards *Andreas Mouzakis - percussion on track 12 *Vassilis Nikolopoulos - keyboard, programming on track 12 *Christos Olympios - tzouras *Alexandros Paraskevopoulos - bass on tracks 8, 12 *

- vocals *Panagiotis Stergiou - tzouras, baglamas, üti on tracks 10, 15 *Giorgos Tsolakos - keyboards *Nikos Vardis - bass *Thanasis Vasilopoulos - clarinet *

- vocals, backing vocals ;Production *

- production management, arrangements, instrumentation, instrument playing *Joey Balin - production management, arrangements, instrumentation, programming on tracks 8, 12 *Charalambos Kemanetzidis - arrangements, instrumentation on tracks 7, 9, 10 *Tasos Bakasietas - recording engineering on tracks 8, 12 *Ronald Prent - recording engineering on tracks 8, 12 *Giorgos Ragkos - recording engineering, mixing at Kiriazis Studios *Yiannis Ioannidis - digital mastering at Digital Press Hellas *Petros Siakavelas - digital mastering at D.P.H. ;Design *Tasos Vrettos - photos *Yiannis Angelakis - make up *Stephanos Vasilakis - hair styling *

- styling *Antonis Glykos - artwork *Apostolos Michalis - photoshop *Efi Karampesini - photoshop *Michalis Orfanos - cover printing Credits adapted from the album's liner notes.

Charts

References

{{Authority control Anna Vissi albums 1997 albums Greek-language albums Sony Music Greece albums