Yovanna
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Ioanna Fassou Kalpaxi (Greek: Ιωάννα Φάσσου Καλπαξή; born 14 November 1938), known professionally as Yovanna, is a Greek singer, novelist and poet known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland.
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Yovanna (born Ιωάννα Φάσσου Καλπαξή - Ioanna Fassou Kalpaxi, 1940, Amaliada) is a Greek singer and writer, known for her participation on behalf of Switzerland in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest. Having trained as an opera singer at the Athens Music Academy, Yovanna decided to move into the field of popular music. She began participating in festivals in Greece in the late 1950s, and also performed in other countries, becoming very popular in the Soviet Union and particularly the Republic of Ge
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- Singer, novelist, poet
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- human
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- female
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- Greece
- Place of birth
- Amaliada
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Athens Conservatoire
- Languages spoken
- Greek
- Participant in
- Eurovision Song Contest 1965
- Genre
- pop music
- Instrument
- voice
- Official website
- yovannakalpaxi.wixsite.com/official
- Image
- Yovanna in Moscow 2015.jpg
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Ioanna Fassou Kalpaxi (Greek: Ιωάννα Φάσσου Καλπαξή; born 14 November 1938), known professionally as Yovanna, is a Greek singer, novelist and poet known for her participation in the 1965 Eurovision Song Contest representing Switzerland.
==Early life and education== At the age of 14, she started her vocal studies at the Athens Conservatoire and trained as an opera singer, namely a lyric soprano. Concurrently, using the stage name "Yovanna", she was broadcasting on the National Radio with the Greek Radio Light Music Orchestra, thereby putting in jeopardy the scholarship that the Athens Conservatoire had awarded her, as this sort of activity was strictly forbidden. In a graduate contest with fifty contestants, and just one year before obtaining her diploma, she won the leading role of Margit in the operetta "Where the Lark Sings" by Franz Lehár. The following year, she took her degree with honours and was awarded a state scholarship to continue her studies in Rome at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia. However, this never materialized as the scholarship was finally given to another applicant for some unspecified reason. It was then that Yovanna decided to move into popular music.
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