Vicky Mosxoliou was born in 23 May 1943 in Metaxourgeio, a poor neighborhood of Athens. She grew up in poverty, as everyone around her in those ages, something that forced her to work since she was thirteen as a workwoman in a factory.
As she grows up, Vicky realizes her passion for music and the potential of her voice. However, her parents are old-fashioned and strict and do not let her work at night as a singer. Fortunately, after the interference of a cousin, already a singer, they are convinced to give their permission and Vicky sings for the first time next to Gregoris Mpithikotsis and Doukissa in 1962.
While singing there, two years after her debut, Stavros Ksarhakos listens to her and asks her to sing for the movie ‘Lola’. This is the beginning of a brilliant career of 40 years, with cooperations with some of the greatest Greek composers and lyricists, Hantzidakis, Spanos, Zampetas, Kaldaras, Panou, Moutsis, Theodorakis, Tsitsanis, Markopoulos, Kougioumtzis, Vamvakaris, Kraounakis, Katsaros, Papadimitriou and many others.
During the ’60 she gives concerts all over Greece next to Ksarhakos and Mpithikotsis and in 1968 she gives the first big concert of a Greek singer in Cyprus on her own expense. In 1972 she is the first Greek folk singer who leaves the big music halls and goes down to small places under Acropolis, ‘Zoom’ and Zygos’, where she works for six years and creates a new, altenative way of entertainment. At the same time she makes great success in discography and many of her songs become a great success.
Very few people know that she has sang at Royal Albert Hall in London, Olympia Theatre in Paris and Carnegie Hall in New York. She has been so simple and proud that she almost never spoke about her success, as well as her personal life.
Vicky Mosxoliou died in 12 August 2005.
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