Marika Ninou - Revision history

Irlandos: /* Famous songs */

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Famous songs

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Lazarus at 17:22, November 29, 2005

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Irlandos: /* Famous songs */

2005-11-25T15:35:02Z

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Irlandos at 15:34, November 25, 2005

2005-11-25T15:34:14Z

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'''Marika Ninou''' was a [[Rebetiko]] songstress.

She was born Evangelia Atamian-Nikolaidou in the Caucasus area (date uncertain, between 1918 - 1923) and came to Greece as a child.

Marika Ninou sang with her husband and child as a family act. Later, she sang with well-known rebetiko singer [[Stellakis Perpiniadis]] at different Athens night clubs.
In [[1949]] she was discovered by composer [[Vasilis Tsitsanis]] who took her under his wing and wrote most of the songs that were to make her famous. Their partnership would last her entire lifetime except for her tour of the United States in the mid-[[1950s]].

She died on [[February 23]], [[1956]] of cancer.

==Famous songs==
*[[Τα καβουράκια]]
*[[Γεννήθηκα για να πονώ]]

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 *Τα καβουράκια - (originally sung by [[Sotiria Bellou]])
 *Γεννήθηκα για να πονώ
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 In [[1949]] she was discovered by composer [[Vasilis Tsitsanis]] who took her under his wing and wrote most of the songs that were to make her famous. Their partnership would last her entire lifetime except for her tour of the United States in the mid-[[1950s]].
-She died on [[February 23]], [[1956]] of cancer.
+She died on [[February 23]], [[1957]] of cancer.
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 '''Marika Ninou''' was a [[Rebetiko]] songstress.
-She was born Evangelia Atamian-Nikolaidou in the Caucasus area (date uncertain, between 1918 - 1923) and came to Greece as a child.
+Ninou was born Evangelia Atamian. The date and place of her birth are uncertain. She was likely born between [[1918]] and [[1923]]. Some sources list [[Constantinople]] as her place of birth, others the Caucasus area, others [[Smyrna]] and yet others claim she was born on a ship that transported her family from [[Smyrna]] to [[Piraeus]].
-Marika Ninou sang with her husband and child as a family act. Later, she sang with well-known rebetiko singer [[Stellakis Perpiniadis]] at different Athens night clubs.
+Ninou grew up in [[Kokkinia]], [[Piraeus]]. She first married a fellow Armenian named Mesropian and had a son named Ovanes. Later, she married an acrobat named Ninos Nikolaidis whose mother gave her the nickname Marika after the famous actress [[Marika Kotopouli]].
 In [[1949]] she was discovered by composer [[Vasilis Tsitsanis]] who took her under his wing and wrote most of the songs that were to make her famous. Their partnership would last her entire lifetime except for her tour of the United States in the mid-[[1950s]].