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Nana Mouskouri (02/14/1997)

October 11, 2024, 11:00 pm

Nana Mouskouri, c. 1971

Globally acclaimed with a career spanning seven decades, singer Nana Mouskouri has sold over 300 million records. She was born on October 13, 1934, in Chania, Crete, and her experience as a child of war who found haven in music led her to become a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador. In 1997, while in Chicago to accept an award from UNICEF, she spoke with Studs Terkel on WFMT. With this broadcast, we wish her a very happy 90^th birthday.

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Studs Terkel (1912-2008) radically redefined the concept of radio interviews. For 45 years starting in 1952, WFMT was his homebase. His daily radio show was a pillar of WFMT’s programming, with its eclectic and astute mix of music and conversation. Studs juxtaposed interviews with the many of the 20th century’s most significant figures with the voices of uncelebrated, working people from Chicago. As a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Studs helped established oral history as a popular and socially ambitious literary genre. Some of his titles include: Division Street, Hard Times, Working, Race and And They All Sang (Adventures of an Eclectic Disc Jockey). Studs was also a recipient of the National Book Award.

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Nana Mouskouri (02/14/1997)