Tania Tsanaklidou turns 72 today, April 9, and on the occasion of her birthday she took a look back at the past. Through the profile she maintains on Instagram, the singer uploaded a black and white snapshot of herself at a younger age.
In the caption of the post, she gave a short account of her relationship with time and how it has changed in her 40s, borrowing thoughts she had written in the past.
The photo of Tania Tsanaklidou that accompanied her post.
Tania Tsanaklidou remembers
“72 years old… With these words I wrote some years ago… “For years I was unaware why I sing. I only knew that there was no other way. I just let it happen. Years ago, turning forty, my relationship with time changed.
Because the main time did me the favor of revealing itself to me with its spiral circles, with its clear limits, traps, possibilities and prohibitions, but – above all – with its true face: that of the liberator.
Then I understood the deepest meaning, the true purpose of my art: for me, singing is nothing but the nostalgia of freedom. The one that only time allows. At the end of…”