Her recent, shocking presence Maria Farantouri, in the excellent ERT show, «Music Box» (together with Alkino Ioannidis), brought back into the news her connection with the island of Aphrodite, the «holy island», as she called it, recalling her mother's Tsirigotian origin, Eleni Viaropoulou.
The woman-symbol of the struggles of the Greek people for democracy and self-determination, the voice-position of Mikis Theodorakis« political statement set to music, the priestess of Hadjidakis in »The Era of Melissanthi« and of Loizos in »Negrika«, the dramatic expression of the works of Seferis, Elytis and Lorca set to music, this »new Hera, strong, pure and vigilant", according to François Mitterrand, will forever adorn the trophy case of Greek discography as a priceless jewel. Like the treasures that flow in the Tsirigothic blood that runs through her veins.
