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Vissi Anna
12+ albums
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Childhood & Origins Anna Vissi was born in the town of Larnaca, Cyprus. She started studying music at the age of 6 at a local conservatory, while she was singing from 5 years old, every Sunday in a place for children, where she used to go with her family. She participated with her older sister, Lia, (and won the first prize) in a competition for new talents, saying she was 14 although she was 12. Two years later, she was the main singer at Y. Kotsonis opus Ayia Tilliria, which was also her first TV appearance. In 1973, her family moved to Athens, where she would have greater opportunities to further her career while managing to continue her studies at the National Conservatory and also appear with many well-known Greek singers, such as George Dalaras, Haris Alexiou, and Vasilis Papakonstantinou, in the famous nightclubs of Plaka, in Athens. At the same time she was simultaneously studying law at the University of Athens. Her first important collaboration, alongside with Georgios Dalaras, is with the composer Stavros Koujioumtzis who composed her two first songs, S' Agapo and Sta Chronia tis Ypomonis. In the meantime, she collaborated with many important Greek composers such as Mikis Theodorakis (1974/1975), Georgios Hadjinassios (1974), Doros Giorgiadis (1974), Nikos Karvelas (who later became her husband; 1975) and Mihalis Terzis (1976). Anna Vissi and George Dalaras with composer Stavros Koujioumtzis. Late 1970s In 1977 she went on tour with Georgios Dalaras and Hari