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This Is My Live | ||||
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Released | 12 December 2007 | |||
Recorded | 9 September 2007 - October 2007 | |||
Genre | Live, rock, pop-rock, pop, dance | |||
Length | 1:12:55 | |||
Label | Minos EMI | |||
Sakis Rouvas chronology | ||||
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Singles from This Is My Live | ||||
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MusicCorner | (favorable) [1] |
This Is My Live is the name of the second live album by Greek singer Sakis Rouvas, released on 12 December 2007 in Greece and Cyprus by Minos EMI. The album was recorded on 9 September 2007 at Rouvas' sold-out show at Lycabetus Theatre with an audience of 7,000. The concert was the final stop on the musician's Benefit Tour for the Greek fire victims of 2007. The combined effort of the tour and other appearances by Rouvas raised over €1.000.000 in fundraiser, becoming one of the greatest sources of aid and relief. The majority of the proceeds of this concert went to fire victims in Greece, particularly those of the 2007 Greek forest fires, however, another intention was to promote blood donation which was running short in Athens. As a result, thousands of pints of blood were collected.
The Greeks or Hellenes are an ethnic group native to Greece, Cyprus, southern Albania, Italy, Turkey, Egypt and, to a lesser extent, other countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. They also form a significant diaspora, with Greek communities established around the world.
Anastasios "Sakis" Rouvas, known mononymously as Sakis, is a Greek recording artist; model; film and television actor; businessman and former pole vaulter. Born in Corfu, he won medals on the national athletics team during the 1980s. Rouvas began a musical career in 1991 as one of Greece's first dance-pop performers. His tenor vocals, complex choreography, costumes, and technological advancements have been credited with transforming music videos and live performances. Rouvas is noted for avoiding domestic music, attaining success for a non-laïko or -éntekhno artist, and for breaking cultural, social, artistic, and generational barriers in Greece and Cyprus.
Greece, officially the Hellenic Republic, self-identified and historically known as Hellas, is a country located in Southern and Southeast Europe, with a population of approximately 11 million as of 2016. Athens is the nation's capital and largest city, followed by Thessaloniki.
The album ranked at number 34 on the IFPI Greece 2007 Annual Top 50 Greek Albums. [2]
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"Stous 31 Dromous"
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