Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou (song)

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"Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou"
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Single by Anna Vissi
from the album Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou original soundtrack
Released2001 (2001)
Format CD single
Recorded2001
Label Sony Music Greece/Columbia Records
Songwriter(s) Nikos Karvelas
Producer(s) Nikos Karvelas
Anna Vissi singles chronology
""Still in Love with You"""Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou"""Call Me""

"Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (Greek : Μάλα: Η Μουσική του Ανέμου; English: Mala: the music of the wind) is a single by Anna Vissi from the original soundtrack of the same name, released in 2002 by Sony Music in Greece and Cyprus.

Greek language language spoken in Greece, Cyprus and Southern Albania

Greek is an independent branch of the Indo-European family of languages, native to Greece, Cyprus and other parts of the Eastern Mediterranean and the Black Sea. It has the longest documented history of any living Indo-European language, spanning more than 3000 years of written records. Its writing system has been the Greek alphabet for the major part of its history; other systems, such as Linear B and the Cypriot syllabary, were used previously. The alphabet arose from the Phoenician script and was in turn the basis of the Latin, Cyrillic, Armenian, Coptic, Gothic, and many other writing systems.

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<i>Mala: I Mousiki Tou Anemou</i> 2002 soundtrack album by Anna Vissi

Mala – I Mousiki Tou Anemou is the name of a Greek soundtrack album by singer Anna Vissi. Initially, a CD single of Mala was released in Greece and Cyprus, containing four tracks which went gold, and later the complete album of the soundtrack was released containing 27 tracks, all written and produced by Nikos Karvelas himself and the orchestration/instrumentation was done by Giorgos Niarhos. It reached Gold status in Greece, and Platinum status in Cyprus.

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Release

The single was released as promotion for the full-length soundtrack of the theatrical opera about a love story during the Holocaust where Vissi played the lead of Mala Zimetbaum.

Mala Zimetbaum Belgian Jew Resistance member

Malka Zimetbaum, also known as "Mala" Zimetbaum or "Mala the Belgian", was a Belgian woman of Polish Jewish descent, known for her escape from the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp and the resistance she displayed at her execution following the escape's failure.

Track listing

  1. "I Mousiki Tou Anemou" (The music of the wind)
  2. "Gia Ena Oneiro Zoume" (We live for a dream)
  3. "O, Erota" (Oh love!)
  4. "I Mousiki Tou Anemou (Instrumental)" (The music of the wind (Instrumental))

Chart performance

ChartPeak positionCertification
Greek Singles Chart1Gold
Cypriot Singles Chart1Platinum

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