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After much efforts and waiting, the official fanclub, "Fannatics" opens its doors to all of you!!!! Expressing the fans' neverending love for Anna and vice versa, the fan club of the Godess gets a complete make over and becomes official. Always the first in news and rumors about Anna, the fan club manages to rise straight to the top, in the number of members, amongst the Greek and Cypriot fan sites, in only 6 months! Respect!

THE COMEBACK: After 3 years without a full album release, Anna Vissi is here!!!! Its title: "Apagorevmeno" (Forbidden)! Surely a masterpiece, non comparable to other Greek albums, Apagorevmeno is characterised by the plethora of famous composers, lyricists and producers who cooperated for the result, the stunning melodies and orchestrations, the exceptional lyrics by Eleana Vrachali and Myrto Kontova and three other names engaged in the production: the million-selling composer Patrick Leonard, the Grammy awarded producer Greg Ladanyi and the hits-creator Glenn Ballard! A completely big and new step for Greece’s bigger star ever!

21/6/08 James Blunt officially invites Anna Vissi to sing with him (and not just attend) at his big concert in the Spiros Kiprianou stadium (Palais des Sports) of Limassol, Cyprus. They sing his hit ‘1973’, ending the concert.

Anna’s first collaboration for a movie is for a big Greek production! She sings the new pop hit "To parelthon mou", for the OST of the comedy "Bank bang" (Village Roadshow Productions) and she has a new Greek hit! The movie is the most successful for this year, with over 800.000 tickets in the Greek market and the dynamic music video is Anna’s first for this season! New collaborators: Yiannis Kifwnides (composer), George Mitsigas (lyrics), Argiris Papadimitropoulos (movie and clip director).

1/1/2008 New Year's Day concert at Europe's square (Platia Evropis – Finikoudes, Larnaka) in Cyprus, under the auspices of the Municipality of Larnaca. Anna herself announces the opening of her official fan club, fannatics.gr!

1/1/2008 Fannatics.Gr, Anna's Official Fan Club is is finally here, attempting to unite fANNAtics from all over the world under one.. domain! Anna kicks of her new Fan Club by sending us a handwritten message containing her wishes, and by announcing its creation at a concert given that same night in her homeland! Having such a great start as our lucky charm, how could we not succeed?????

31/1/2008 Fannatics.gr's first official contest is here, in which participants are asked to create the new logo and slogan for the club. Both members and Anna take part in the voting to declare the winner!

1/4/2008 Fannatics.gr celebrates the 10-year anniversary of the release of "Antidoto". The microsite "10 years of Antidoto", dedicated to the fan-favourite album, contains rare multimedia content and press clipping from that era. Member contribution is invaluable. After the microsite is released, the most knowledgeable fans take part in a contest to win a copy of the collectible compilation "Anna Vissi", released only in France, signed by Anna herself! The winner of the contest... member altrig2004!

17/5/2008 The first Official Fannatics Party is here! Over 200 fannatics meet at "Apla Prive" at Thisio where they have a fabulous night full of Anna and enjoy a live show by Orestis Trikas. On the same night 10 lucky members will win the rare and collectible "My favourite songs, only for friends" double CD by Anna which contains two unreleased in Greece songs: "Diri Dahta" and "Is it safe"!

21/10/2008 Anna sends a video message of support and devotion to all her beloved Fannatics, via her official fan club, to celebrate 3000 members, and they go crazy!!! the message is shot during the making of her new music video "To parelthon mou", in the cineplex "The Mall" in Athens.

29/10/2008 1st exclusive preview of the "Parelthon" Music Video, with which Anna makes her comeback to the Greek discography. Fannatics.gr is the first to upload the new music video to its YouTube channel, and in less that two months the clip has over 1.000.000 views!

14/12/2008 Once again Fannatics.gr has the exclusive rights to a music video's preview. "Apagorevmeno" is the first official single out of Anna's new album, and this time the music video clip hits the 1.000.000 views mark within a month! The worldwide honors acquired by these two YouTube videos from all over the world help our AVFans YouTube channel to climb to the top 5 music channels worldwide!!

Patricia Field suggests it and Anna Vissi includes a new, R’n’B/rap cover of the famous greek rebetiko song "5 chronia dikasmenos" (composer: Vaggelis Papazoglou), remixed by DJ Matteo Sprague, in her new album!

By being in the market for only 20 days during 2008, "Apagorevmeno" reaches Gold status and becomes the 9th album in sales for 2008 in the Greek albums chart and 10th in the mixed (Greek and foreign) albums chart! (Source: Ifpi Greece)!

4/10/2008 Marriot Grosvenor House, London, (Fundraiser Gala)
27/10/2008 Kensington Palace, London, with Patrick Leonard ("Life Action Trust" charity event)

"We got along well from the very first moment, because we're similar. We're not divas. During our discussion he said he was going to give a concert in Cyprus and I told him that since I did not manage to go see him in Greece, I would go see him in my birthplace. Then he proposed to me: "It would be an honour for me if we would sing together. How would you like learning the words of 1973?". I liked this song because it was symbolic. That was the year I left Cyprus, full of dreams and hope for a career, and now I was going back to sing that song with him. It was an honour for me to sing with him too. The previous night I was sitting with a CD player stuck on my ears trying to learn the words and the music. We only did one rehearsal with a guitar. the only thing he told me before going on stage was "Don't pay any attention to whatever I do while we sing. just face me.". It was a wonderful moment. Magical. That night before going to sleep, he sent me a sweet message, saying "Thanks a lot, I had a great time with you on stage" Down Town mag, 7/08

"Apagorevmeno was not in the list of songs to be included in the album. The album was almost done and Patrick Leonard was still in Athens, when I remembered that we had a song I liked, but it was written in English. I played it to Eleana Vrachali one day and asked her whether it could inspire her to write lyrics in Greek. The next day she had it done. We listened to it at around midnight in the studio, I turned off the lights and sang it only once. I saw Patrick (he doesn’t know any Greek) and he was touched. That's when I understood how powerful this song is. That's why I made it my first single. Because I didn't want to start off the album with something resembling the "old Vissi", something that was expected of me or a typical radio hit.", DownTown mag, 18/12/2008

Anna could sit for hours after her concerts signing autographs! Niki Vissi

"I liked Anna from the moment we said "hello". We understood each other immediately, we laughed a lot, we had chemistry. Then we started singing and I realised that Anna wants in her music the same thing I want: she wants it to be good. She just wants to listen to and sing wonderful music, nothing else. That’s the kind of people I want to work with. (...) (From her career in the past...) I consider Mala to be a masterpiece. I also liked "Paralio", "Eleni" and "Antidoto". Actually I told Anna to sing it at our joint concert in Kensington Palace.", Patrick Leonard, Down Town Cyprus, 9/11/2008

Endless comments! About her professional (and personal?) divorce from Karvelas, about the end of her litigation and mainly about her comeback and new collaborations! Rumors circulate regarding collaborations with pretty much every single person in greek showbiz, but what we know for sure is that lyricists Eleana Vrachali and Mirto Kontova, as well as... Madonna's Pat Leonard (Frozen, Like a prayer) will participate! At least that's what Anna says!