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Nama is a Greek pop/jazz/new age music group which started its career 1992 with the debut album NAMA. It was formed by singer Iphigenia and composer Aris Pavlis, who has previously been a member of the electropop group "Cinema".
After seven albums and two times awarded for best pop group in Greece by the Arion music awardsIFPI Greece 2002 and 2006, they recorded their last album in winter 2008.
In the two that followed, there was pressures from the music industry for every band to relinquish any sense of artistic integrity that they might possess, and collaborate with artists of completely different genres, so as to combine the artist 'selling power and create a monstrous yet more profitable project for the record labels. NAMA found a way to avoid this restriction whilst still complying with the terms of their contract - to produce a third record. In 1995 they released "ANAMNISIS" again with LYRA. In this album NAMA reinvented ten old songs-Including their first hit,"Odysseus". At first it appeared, as though it would be difficult to obtain permission from composers such as Mimis Plessas, Manos Hatzidakis, Dionysis Savvopoulos, Manolis Chiotis, amongst others. Nevertheless, every composers and lyricist approached readily agreed, testament to the respect that NAMA has. Moreover, songs like "MIA AGAPI GIA TO KALOKAIRI " quickly became classics.
'ENA MAKRY TAXIDI','NAMA's sixth album, was released by MBI in 2005. It produced yet another summer hit song in 'ZESTO KALOKAIRI'.
Dimis Papachristou (guitars), Kostas Kostaroglou (piano), Vasilis Moustos (piano), Thimios Papadopoulos (woodwinds), Takis Marinakis (drums\percussion), Antonis Apergis (folk flutes), Valentino Beikoff (violin), Nikos Sakelarakis (trumpet), Maximos Drakos (piano)
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