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With the initiative and responsibility of the most fannatic of Anna's fans, fannatics.gr became the favorite habit of all the fans' daily routine, who flooded into their new online home, which now counts over 16,000 members!
For the past 17 years, fannatics.gr offers Anna' fans the most up-to-date info and the best place for - un-ending - conversations regarding their icon. Last but not least? The multimedia content that's given exclusively and directly to fannatics by Anna herself!
Do you think you know everything there is to know about Anna Vissi?
Should Anna take part at the Old Town Festival of Xanthi?
Should Anna talk so openly for sexual issues as she did in a famous tv show?
We are not going to discuss such issues here. All we are going to say is that, in 2009, after 36 consecutive years in the music industry, everybody still has something to say about Vissi, in order to share a part of the publicity that comes along with her name. Wherever she goes, whatever she does. And that’s phenomenal!
We saw Anna visit her ill father, Mr Nestora, and mother and spend some quality time with her family in Cyprus. This provoked widespread topic for “discussion” among the lunchtime tv gossip shows following the series of clips that were shown during the first episode.
Since we are unable to express the truth and her own feelings on the matter, here is a text which, while it notably answers to third party rumours, is directed to her one and only Fannatics. She thanks them for the love they show her, both during the good and bad times:
“I am truly touched how you have all welcomed this new “project” of mine with open arms. Because I strongly felt that I gave it my all and nothing I included was “fake” and I had no other ulterior motive than to tell my story. It was there for those who were interested to listen and follow my life in a bit of a different way from what we have been used to…I was expecting these “predictable” negative reactions ( where would we be without them) and from the same “predictable” presenters or “social commentators” as they like to be labelled. It would not be in any way a reason for me not to do something that I wanted to do and was sure of with my hand on my hand. However, the truth is that I was really upset when I heard some people chip in with “nasty” and “poisonous” remarks regarding what they saw in the scenes with my father….It is as if being ill is a taboo subject, something heinous and bad that we must hide away and not talk about and certainly not show in on TV for Christ’s sake! Like everyone, I have a family with a father, a mother, brothers and sisters, relatives and a daughter. I believe it would be wrong of me not to show my father in my story who might not be in a position to be dulled up and parading and talking on TV but who exists, laughs and is happy that people are by his side to help and to love him. Not only did I not “sell out” on my father, as it was wrongly claimed, but I showed how proud of him I am.
Sorry guys but I felt I had to defend THIS as you can understand. I will continue to read what you write on twitter and on facebook. I feel am learning from you and gain more energy as many of you say that you do from me. There are so many of you, you out-number thev“bad” ones, you silence them! After all, I did this for you with great love, in great spirits, in humour and with many talented and serious colleagues by my side. You know it! So, I thank you and love it so much that we enjoyed it with such a passion, together!
Thanks for all the love guys!!
Anna”
Anna’s answer: “I was introduced to Antoni by Manolis Mitsias. He had just returned from his studies at Harvard University and was a really clever and sweet person. I am not sure if he still has this about him today because, as you know, politicians have a “sell by date”. If he has not “gone off” yet, he will make a good Prime Minister. Either way, today’s politics have already turned rotten. There is so much played behind the scenes that I do not know if this allows him the space to be his true self. I for one, met Antonis in another time in his life so, I am not able to comment on the Antonis we see today.”
Must Cyprus, April
On the same day, Anna, through a press conference, cleared up the situation regarding the tax scandal as an individual through her different companies which separately deal with her record deal and her live appearances.
A good question would be to see if, one year after this article, there was a check on all the mentioned famous singers on the list or if their famous names were used by the Media outlets to generate a bit of frenzy and sell a few papers?
“There is always a cause, a reason for this but I do not know if I would chose this way. I cannot, however, condemn someone’s rage and what made him reach this point. I would like to understand why he has reached this point to throw a tub of yoghurt. As for Giorgo Ntalara,, I cannot answer your questions you know? I do not hold any good feelings towards him, on a personal rather than an artistic level. I respect him as an artist but I have a personal dislike for him and I am not scared to say it. There, I am telling you for the first time here. Sorry”.
Psychologies, 26th April
They started with her personal life when various TV outlets started questioning whether she was seeing her co-star, Nicholas Karagiaouris.
They continued with the – premature – rumours surrounding her return to the Pallas Theatre for the new season starring in new musical by Reppas-Papathanasiou.
They concluded with her rumoured role as a judge on Ant1's new talent show, The Voice!!!
As always, none of these rumours came into fruition although, this time, we have to admit that two of the rumours had some truth behind them. The writing duo confirmed that they had discussed the possibility of a new musical with Anna while, at the same time, she was in negotiations to appear on The Voice, something she later turned down as it was not something that interested her.
The year started off with gossip surrounding Despina Vandi’s “secret” visit to the Panthion music hall to watch the “Ena i kanena” show. As soon as she posted a photo of herself in the audience, twitter went into overdrive with people presuming that a “historic visit” was made until the following day that is, when we learnt that the two singers never bumped into each other as Despina only popped by Antoni Remo’s dressing room.
Anna was pretty clear with her comments so, there is no need for us to add anything:
“Whatever the beloved Michalis Violaris said, whom I met when I was 12 and not seen since, I like him, I respect him and acknowledge that all that he has done in his work has, so far, been good. Many people came out of the woodwork and said a lot about me. They have the right to. Now, what their aims are for doing so are never clear. I am not sure if I should say that I am still “current” so they get airtime of the back of me or that they are just “not relevant” anymore themselves. This is not in direct reference to Michalis of course, oh God no! I have learnt to not care because, if I start taking too much notice of all the things that are written about me, I will waste precious time which I prefer to dedicate to things that are worth it my time”.