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Melina Kana started singing professionaly since she was a college student.
She started her career at "Plateau" club of Thessaloniki, cooperating and performing
for four years there. She has cooperated with many famous Greek singers, such as
Eleftheria Arvanitaki,
Nikos Papazoglou,
Haris Alexiou
and Eleni Tsaligopoulou.
She has a wide range of song styles, from Rembetika, to Jazz, to Traditional sounding,
to Entehno- a very well known serious form of Greek singing that combines poetic lyrics and focuses on melody.
She has released 7 Cds, "Mystika Tragoudia" in 1991, "Tis Meras Kai Tis Nyhtas" in 1992,
"Aromata Anti Gia Nafthalini" in 1995, "Tis Agapis Yerakaris" in 1996. The most crytically aclaimed album of her career,
is her 1998 "Loot" release( or "Lafira" as it is called in Greek), in a cooperation with Ashkhabad from Turkmenistan, and Thanasi Papakonstantinou. Some of her CDs can be found online at Greek Music and Greek City.
In 1998, she performed at the prestigious World Music festival of Sfinks in Belgium.
Her 1999 Greek-wide tour with Eleni Tsaligopoulou was a big success all over the country, earning her very good reviews, and putting her latest album in the orbit of the most important albums of the year.
Listen some Song Samples here