![]() ![]() Following several successful guest appearances on British TV after her Eurovision performance, the BBC then invited Mouskouri and her backing group, the Athenians, to start hosting a TV series called Presenting… Nana Mouskouri from 1968 onwards. These successes across Europe and elsewhere impressed Yvonne Littlewood, the BBC producer who had first met Mouskouri at the 1963 Eurovision Song Contest in London. Mouskouri subsequently left the Conservatoire and began performing at the Zaki club in Athens. ![]() During an episode of 'Joanna Lumley's Greek Odyssey', shown on the UK ITV channel in the autumn of 2011, Mouskouri told the actress Joanna Lumley how she had been scheduled to sing at the amphitheatre at Epidauros with other students of the Conservatoire, when upon arrival at the amphitheatre word came through from the Conservatoire in Athens that she had just been barred from participating in the performance there due to her involvement in light music. However, when Mouskouri's Conservatory professor found out about Mouskouri's involvement with a genre of music that was not in keeping with her classical studies, he prevented her from sitting for her end-of-year exams. She began singing with her friends' jazz group at night. After eight years at the Conservatoire, Mouskouri was encouraged by her friends to experiment with jazz music. She studied classical music with an emphasis on singing opera. In 1950, she was accepted at the Conservatoire. ![]()
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