Capital: | € 12 million |
Age: | 67 |
Born: | 8/23/1952 |
Country of origin: | Greece |
Source of wealth: | singer |
Last updated: | 2020 |
Short introduction
For quite a long time, the local Greek Vicky Leandros has been a notable and famous pop and chanson vocalist in Greece just as in Germany and various different nations. She began her incredible profession at the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson (Eurovision Song Contest), where she showed up twice for Luxembourg. In 1967 she took fourth spot in Vienna with the chanson “L’amour es bleu”, which has now turned into an evergreen. In 1972 she came out ahead of the pack with “Après toi” in Edinburgh. Around then, notwithstanding, she was at that point exceptionally effective globally.
Early life
Vicky Leandros was brought into the world on August 23, 1952 in Paleokastritsa on the Greek island of Corfu as Vassiliki Papathanasiou. In 1958 she came to Germany with her folks. After her folks separated in 1961, Vicky grew up with her dad Leandros Papathanasiou in Hamburg, who was at that point effective as an artist under the craftsman name Leo Leandros. She got singing, guitar and expressive dance examples and went to secondary school.
Her first single named “Blade, Scissors, Fork, Light” turned into a hit in Germany in 1965. The next year she showed up at the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson to acquire further global acknowledgment. She began singing multilingual at an early age and can now gladly think back on hits in Greek, German, French, English, Spanish, Dutch and surprisingly Japanese.
Career
Vicky Leandros made her extraordinary progress in seven distinct dialects from the last part of the 1960s to the mid-1980s. For this achievement she was respected globally with incalculable gold and platinum records. She has showed up on various TV and music programs in Germany, Greece, France, Belgium, Canada, the Netherlands, Spain, Latin America and Japan and, with 20 outline positions in the Top Twenty, is one of the best female specialists in Germany since the presentation of the music diagrams .
Notwithstanding her singing profession, Vicky Leandros was additionally politically dynamic until 2008. She ran for the social vote based Greek party PASOK on a few events and became Vice Mayor and City Councilor for Culture and International Relations of the city of Piraeus in October.
Career highlights
With Vicky Leandros’ long and extremely fruitful global profession, it is hard to express what her most noteworthy triumphs have been. So perhaps her whole profession is a feature, be it the way that she can sing in seven unique dialects, or that her first single was at that point a hit. Be it the triumph of the Grand Prix Eurovision de la Chanson in 1972 or its various formwork boards in gold and platinum, all that Vicky Leandros dares is by all accounts delegated with progress.
In 1972 she was granted the “Top rated Artist” grant universally. Notwithstanding different honors from the music business, she got the Order of Merit of the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg in 2011 and the German Federal Cross of Merit in 2015.
Amazing facts
Since her union with Enno Freiherr von Ruffin in 1986, she has held the title Baroness von Ruffin. The marriage was separated in 2005. The two girls Sandra and Milana are from this marriage. The child Leo comes from her first marriage. Vicky Leandros has likewise been the grandma of a young man beginning around 2013.
In 2001 and 2006 she was in discussion as a Senator for Culture of the City of Hamburg. In any case, she rejected the twice since she liked to focus on her music profession.Kids are especially critical to her. She upholds different guide projects for kids. She works for kids in Africa just as for the “One Heart for Children” crusade in Germany. She additionally upholds the “Tutor Foundation”, which is focused on forestalling illicit drug use among youngsters and teenagers. For her social responsibility, she got the “brilliant pea” from the German Center for Fairy Tale Culture in 2012.