Hélène Petsilas: Who is Nana Mouskouri’s daughter?

Hélène Petsilas is a singer and the daughter of Nana Mouskouri. Hélène Petsilas’s mother is one of the biggest-selling singers of all time. The Greek singer and politician over the span of her career, she has released over 200 albums in at least twelve languages, including Greek, French, English, German, Dutch, and many more. She has sold a reputed 250 million records and received more than 300 gold or platinum albums worldwide according to the Age.

Hélène Petsilas: Bio Summary

How old is Nana Mouskouri’s daughter?

Hélène Petsilas was born on July 6, 1970, in  Geneva, Switzerland. As of 2023, she is 53 years old. Hélène is the daughter of Nana Mouskouri and hex-husband Yorgos Petsilas. She is the second child of the couple. She has an elder brother, Nicolas Petsilas who is 2 years old than her. The siblings were raised in Switzerland by a Swiss nanny. Their father Yorgos Petsilas, was a guitarist in their mother’s backing band (the trio “The Athenians”) and the first man she had kissed.

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Following in the footsteps of her mother and father, Hélène Petsilas is s singer who goes by the stage name Lénou. According to Temple-grec, Nana Mouskouri’s daughter released her first album, which was called ” Any Given Day ” in 2004. In 2006, she was featured in a duet with French singer-songwriter Laurent Voulzy in the song ” Yesterday Once More “. The song has garnered over 300 thousand views on youtube.

Hélène Petsilas aka Lénou undeniably inherited the mother’s vocal talent who developed the passion and started singing lessons at age 12. As a child, she listened to radio broadcasts of singers including Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, and Édith Piaf. In 1950, the celebrated singer was accepted at the Conservatoire where she studied classical music with an emphasis on singing opera.

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A Few years later, her professor discovered that Mouskouri had been singing with a jazz group by night, and she was summarily kicked out of the Conservatory. That didn’t stop her from pursuing music and eventually attaining worldwide recognition. The mother and daughter have worked on a few projects. She performed ” All the trees are in bloom ” in the album Nana and Friends: Rendezvous , recorded in 2011.

Hélène Petsilas’ parents ended their marriage in 1975 when he was just 5 years old. According to Puretrend the growing success of Nana Mouskouri arouses jealousy in her husband. ” My husband wanted me to stop the profession. He was in competition with the music. With everything else .”

Through these, the singer is visibly proud of the fact that despite her humble beginnings and divorce, she has made emotional and financial success in her life. Not long after her parents’ marriage came to an end, Nana started a relationship with her record producer André Chapelle, but they did not exchange their vows then because she “didn’t want to bring another father into the family” and divorce was against her conservative upbringing. 

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Andre and Nana went through almost 30 years of courtship before eventually saying “Yes I do” on January 13, 2003, in a private event attended by only 15 people including Hélène and her elder brother Nicolas. Her mother and her new husband lived primarily in Switzerland. It is unclear if Hélène Petsilas is also married and has her own children. She has been very private about certain aspects of her life.