Shortly before turning 90, h Nana Moushuriform of light song around the world, announced that he wants to say goodbye to the stage, in an interview with the German magazine Der Spiegel published today.

“I want to do a few more shows, and then that will be it,” he said in the interview published in the online edition of the weekly magazine.

“I think I’ve done enough,” he added.

“I can’t pretend I’m young. I don’t want to make people suffer. I don’t have the right to go on stage and not sing well, even if the audience applauds me for it,” she added.

In 2008, Nana Mouschouri, who has recorded more than 1,500 songsgave a farewell concert in Athens, but from the following year she returned to the stage, believing that she would not be able to stand away from her audience.

On October 13, Nana Mouschouri will celebrate her 90th birthday. On this occasion an album will be released with some of her hits re-recorded by an orchestra. “When I listen to these recordings, I can’t hold back my tears,” she confessed to Spiegel.