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Greek version of the well known song by Renato Carosone. Mando is a Greek singer with many hit songs, mainly during the 1990s. She was born 13.04.1966 in Piraeus, Greece and was considered since childhood as a child-wonder for her phonetic possibilities. Mando was grown up surrounded by music as the daughter of jazz pianist Nikos Stamatopoulos and soprano Mairi Aperghi. As a child she had many activities as, beside musical studies and school, she did competitive swimming. At the age of 13 she appears for the first time at the Kalouta theatre taking part in the musical Jesus Christ Superstar under the supervision of Mimis Plessas and Dimitris Malavetas, while in 1981 she enters the Greek discography participating with the name Mandy in Granny Motorcycle with music and lyrics by Jimmy Panousis, With this penname she issues her first maxi single Fill me up / Love me baby, and the following year Set Yourself in motion / Where do I begin, in a production of Costas Charitodiplomenos. After the success of these two maxi singles she goes to America where she takes phonetic lessons with Hal Shaefer, under whom Barbra Streisand and Liza Minelli have also studied, and kinesiology lessons. In 1987 she makes another appearance in the Greek discography with her participation in the collection The 10 tens together with Paulina, Kaiti Gharbi, Sophia Vossou, Andreas Mikroutsikos, Lavrentis Machairitsas, Sakis Boulas and Stelios Stavrakis, and performs the amazing Sta zesta feggaria …