Tzeni Vanou, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Tzeni Vanou

Greek singer

Date of Birth: 10-Feb-1939

Place of Birth: Athens, Attica Region, Greece

Date of Death: 05-Feb-2014

Profession: singer

Nationality: Greece

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Tzeni Vanou (Greek: ????? ?????, born Eugenia Vrachnou; 10 February 1939 – 5 February 2014) was a Greek singer, born in Athens.
She had planned on studying physics, but she met her mentor, Greek composer Mimis Plessas, who persuaded her to become a singer.
She began her career in 1959 performing with the ERT orchestra.
In 1964, she won first prize in the Thessaloniki Song Festival.
At age 74, she died at a Piraeus hospital in 2014 from cancer.
During her last few months, she had undergone surgery to remove a tumor in her larynx.
She died five days before her 75th birthday.