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At one time not so long ago (haven't checked lately), Nana Mouskouri was the overall highest selling female recording artist in history. She was much better known in Europe than here. Her early work is wonderful, but in her long career she lost that something as her voice aged. Sad how that happens, right? Streisand's last album indicates some few can defy those odds that other exquisite voices like Biaz and Joni Mitchell succumbed to long ago.
She went unnoticed to me---but I will try to remedy that now! I have at times done myself and artists a disservice by listening to concerts when their voice has passed its peak. One of the most unfortunate was a Peter Paul and Mary concert only a year or two before Mary passed. She had bloomed up on steroids (I believe) and her voice had lost all the clarity she once had, I went away sad. Joan Biaz recently had a 75th birthday concert on PBS---I wish she had not :shrug: