Anna Vissi, the Greek star who has been reigning the local music scene for thirty years now, returns with a new album by Sony BMG. Apagorevmeno (Forbidden) was produced by Grammy Award winner Greg Ladanyi. Songs for the album have contributed international stars such as Christina Aguilera and Dan Wilson (Breathless).

Apagorevmeno is Anna Vissi's new album released in Greece on 9 December by Sony BMG. The album contains 13 songs plus two bonus tracks. The first single from the album, bearing the same title, was composed by Patrick Leonard and Kara Dioguardi. Kara has written and co-written over 500 songs in her career so far, among them some world wide hits such as Spinning around for Kylie Minogue, and songs for Celine Dion, Gwen Stefani, Santana and others. Patrick is known for his extensive collaboration with Madonna (Like a prayer, L' isla bonita, Live to tell, Cherish, Frozen etc), Bon Jovi, Lara Fabian, Pink Floyd and Elton John among others.

Stin Pyra, is composed by Alex Papaconstantinou and penned by Marcus Englof who also wrote Yassou Maria, the 2007 Greek Eurovision Song Contest entry for Sarbel. An s'erotefto was co-written by Christina Aguilera and Kontra was composed by Dan Wilson (Breathless).

You can listen to snippets of the songs here.

Anna Vissi – Apagorevmeno, In The Studio, Part A
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6_CBTe2btE

Anna Vissi – To Parelthon Mou, Making Of
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FgsjMbdqkzg

Anna Vissi has taken part in the Eurovision Song Contest three times in total, two for Greece in 1980 and 2006 and once for her native country, Cyprus, in 1982.