Vicky Leandros

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Vicky Leandros, the Greek harbour town of Piraeus, was elected town councillor on the Pasok list on October 15th. Piraeus' Cultural and International development was her assignment. She was also the Deputy Mayor of Piraeus. Leandros resigned from Greek politics in June 2008, citing that she underestimated the workload and time she needed to do her political duties, and that juggling those roles with her singing career was impossible.

Personal life

Leandros married Greek entrepreneur Ivan Zissiadis, the father of her son Leandros Zissiadis (born 6 June 1980). Enno von Ruffin, the uncle of Freiherr Franz von Ruffin, was married in May 1986. Enno von Ruffin has owned and operated Gut Basthorst, his country estate, since 1982. After 19 years of marriage, Leandros and Enno divorced in 2005. Maximiliane von Ruffin ("Milana") and Alessandra von Ruffin ("Sandra"), the couple's two children (born 2 December 1986).

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Early career

In Palaiokastritsa, Corfu, Leandros was born as Vasiliki Papathanasiou. Although she grew up at her grandmother's house until the age of eight, her father wanted to advance his career and went to West Germany. Since her parents' divorce, her parents took her to West Germany, where she stayed with her father permanently after their parents' divorce. When taking guitar, music, dance, ballet, and voice lessons, she discovered her passion at an early age.

"Messer, Gabel, Schere, Licht," she released her first album in 1965. This was the start of her father's astute, producer, and producer. With the song "L'amour est bleu," she was accepted to perform for Luxembourg at the Eurovision Song Contest in 1967. She came in fourth place, but the album became one of the year's biggest international hits, and was also covered by other artists. With her albums, singles, and EPs being sold all around the world, she was soon singing in eight languages.

Ich Bin, the 1970s' first television show, was broadcast in 13 European nations. Several awards for its originality and thought-provoking contemporary graphics, including the world-famous Bronze Rose of Montreux in 1971. It was also the first time Vicky used the same stage surname as her father (actually his real name) and became known as Vicky Leandros since the 1960s, having been identified simply as Vicky. Julien Clerc and Deep Purple were among the guests on display. The show has been repeated over the years and has been seen as a classic piece of the period, but it was not well received in all quarters due to its surprising and unexpected photographs in an age when songs were not normally associated with graphics for marketing purposes. Other film portraits by well-known film makers in the 1970s were to follow, drew worldwide attention. Music My Way is a television show hosted in the United Kingdom by the BBC.

For the second time in 1972, she represented Luxembourg at Eurovision for the second time and won the competition with the song "Après Toi." It was also a hit in the United Kingdom, with the UK Top 10 Singles Chart ranked at #2. In Australia, the song reached the number 23nd position. It has sold over six million copies around the world, as well as a gold disc. In seven languages, Leandros performed the song. Later this year, she unveiled her Theodorakis composition "O Kaymos (Sorrow, in Greek) "The Love in Your Eyes) "which became a hit in several languages around the world. In the UK Singles Chart, it reached the top 40. "When Bouzoukis Played" in 1973 became a big selling country in many languages, reaching #44 in the UK chart. The country has a population of 45, with 45 in Australia. "Theo, wir fahr'n nach Lodz," she recorded in 1974, a hit in Germany. During the 1970s, she had a lot of success in South Africa.

She reached her peak in Japan in the late 1960s and early 1970s and has appeared in Japan many times. Her second Japanese single "Watashi no Sukina Chocolate" (The Chocolate That I Like) became a big hit. "Mamy Blue," "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me," and "My Sweet Lord" were among other songs that were also recorded.

Across the Water, a 1975 collection of songs by Across the Water in Nashville, Tennessee, and Miami, Florida. A departure from her previous work by mixing country, rock, and soul On its debut in the United States, critics were enthusiastic. In 1976, she signed a multimillion-dollar contract with CBS Records for albums to be released in the United States market and began working with Kim Fowley in Hollywood, California, but soon returned to Europe after CBS' assistance fell.

After returning to Europe, Leandros released albums of various genres, including German folk music and Christmas songs. Her career seemed to be fading, with the song Kali Nichta becoming her last top 20 hit in Germany. She released an album in Spanish-language that attracted her interest in Latin America. "Oh Mi Mama," the first single, was a minor success, but the second single, "Tu Me Has Sentir," was not released by Leandros or CBS due to differences between the two bands and a reported health scare in 1979, was a big hit in Spanish-speaking countries. It appears on compilation albums and is unquestionably Vicky Leandros' most popular and remembered song. Wie am Allerersten Tag was the first album to be released, but Leandros became pregnant and paused for the next 18 months.

Love is Alive was released on 1981 as a result of Demis Roussos, Johnny Hallyday, and American singer David Soul for a United Nations Benefit. Ich gehe neue Wege and its Greek translation, Irtha Yia Sena, were released in 1981. Since being displaced in 1982 by the success of Leandros' album "Verlorene Paradies," the group was firmly embedded in the top tens of singles charts in several countries after a few years absence. It was also recorded in Dutch.

Vicky's album featuring the hit song and single "Grüße an Sarah" in 1983, which is often performed in concert due to a cappella between the other performers and vocalists making the beats and instruments collectively to mesh with Leandros' main vocal. "Ver van het leven" was a song written in the Dutch language back in 1983; "Ver van het leven" was a Dutch-speaking market. In 1984, the French version of "A l'Est d'Eden" became a hit in France, ranking # 1 on the singles chart. Leandros made a historic comeback in Canada, and she toured the country after a long absence in 1985. Two other singles from the album have also become Canadian hits, "Tu as sept Ponts a traverser" and "Salut bien Sarah," the French translation of "Gruesse an Sarah."

Following her 1985 album entitled Eine Nacht in Griechenland Leandros, Leandros took time off to focus on her personal life. In the Benelux and German speaking countries, the album received Gold status. It was 1988 before the first album, "Ich bin ich," would be released. The album was more rock-oriented than previous works, and it was produced in conjunction with Klaus "Nick" Munro. During this time, Leandros did not tour and made only limited appearances, mainly focusing on her family life and her three young children. Nonetheless, two singles from the album "Du hast schon laengst" and "Oh My Oh" were rereleased, as well as "Goodbye proclaimed" and "Oh Oh My" in a remixed version. With her comeback album Piretos tou Erota, she returned to Greece and charted for her music career in 1989.

Leandros' album "Starkes Sensation" (Strong Feeling) was released in 1990, which included a new version of "Apres Toi" her Eurovision song contest champion of 1972. The album also contained the German translation of "Piretos tou erota," now "Süchtig nach Geborgenheit," which was the first single cut. With "Prosexe" (1991), "Andres" (1993), and "Du Bist Mein Gedanke" (1994), her first solo appearance (1995), she had a fruitful career in Greece, as well as in Germany with "Du Bist Mein Gedanke" (1995).

The revival of Greek popular music coincided with the introduction of Leandros' early albums on vinyl (with different sleeves) and then a CD version of them all with bonus tracks. She collaborated with German hit-maker Jack White from 1995 to 1998, as well as the German version of the Titanic song "My Heart Will Go On" by Samantha Price. Leandros' highest-charging track since Verlorenes Paradies was this song "Weil mein Herz dich nie mehr vergisst."

Leandros began recording her own music in 2000. The album Jetzt / Now was a huge success, and her own compositions received critical esteem. Chris De Burgh's duet was one of the album's highlights. Following this, she appeared on several international charts, including Canada, China, Japan, Belgium, and South Africa, as a result of many companies' finest hits collections that several firms have released, including Canada, China, Japan, Belgium, and South Africa.

Mikis Theodorakis' album Tragoudi Alliotiko debuted in 2003, with songs by Mikis Theodorakis, as the Kamerata Orchestra under Theodorakis' guidance. The album became a hit in Germany, central Europe, and Greece. Television stations and tabloid newspaper reviewers lauded her return to television, while others and commentators doubted Leandros' recitation of songs from a political composer like Theodorakis. She appeared in numerous television programs on German and Greek television, including galas with José Carreras at this time. The album debuted on the top selling albums of 2003, and Theodorakis wrote that he ranked her "among the two or three most influential interpreters of [my] work."

She received two prestigious awards from Greece's government for her promotion of Greek culture and music abroad, as well as another from the Greek Orthodox Church for her work in Africa for poor children. The latter award was given to her at a classical concert held at the Herod Atticus amphitheatre in October 2003, and is the highest accolade that the Greek Orthodox Church can bestow. Leandros is the only woman to be honoured with such a prestigious award. Ich Bin Wie Ich Bin Bin, a double album containing new recordings of her songs, was released in 2005. In Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, the album was charted. In February 2006, her Jubilee Tour of Europe began. A month later, she was in the German pre-selection for the Eurovision Song Contest, the 34th anniversary of "Avant Toi" had been broadcast. Her album "Don't Break My Heart," which had already appeared on the charts, failed to gain the most popular votes among the televoting public.

Möge der Himmel, Leandros' album, was released in March 2009. This album featured soul elements, R&B sensibilities, hip hop, and hip rap. The change in direction was headline news, and the album received mixed feedback.

In 2010, Zeitlos, the French word that was born in 2008, was revived to the idea of releasing a set of French songs and World hits in the German language. "C'est Bleu" for Scooter's album The Big Mash Up was she recorded her hit "L'amour est bleu" in 2011. The rare collaboration was dubbed a highlight of the year and was unveiled as a single on December 2nd. On the Ariola (Sony) label in 2015, a new studio album named "Ich weiss, dass ich nichts weiss" was released. The bulk of the songs were co-composed (music and lyrics) by Leandros. The songs are based to a large extent on the singer's personal life experiences.

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