Very fair answer from Ian, and I think your penultimate para a little unnecessary, Nerd, "casting nasturtiums" as it does.

I am guessing here, but I think that my compatriot pitches herself at the pop world anyway, rather than folk or even World Music. I get no feeling of her wanting to carry much of her Greek musical background over (certainly no traditional elements that I can perceive), just enough to make it interesting and different to western ears. Nana Mouskouri's story must be there at the back of Athena's head somewhere - and who would blame her? (Nana too covered several Hadjidakis songs by the way, though I cannot think of any where she had the first recording). Or perhaps she is thinking of Anna Vissi's more recent success in the pop arena (another one who began her career in Greek folk only to be dazzled by the possibility of international stardom, though Anna's hubby and manager is as much to blame as anyone, having also written many of her songs).

Not quite World Music in my view, then - Savina Yiannatou and George Dalaras went well further down that path than Athena seems willing to go. And not folk either, even by my own wide definition of the term: I get no sense of the importance of lyrics (or of the song overall) over the performer, or of any nod to a debt to any kind of tradition (Hadjidakis was mid- to late 20th century).

As I said before, I wish her well; I just wasn't sure of the context in which she was included alongside Eliza and Seth in the C5 series, and because of the timing I am therefore suspicious that it is as a result of marketing efforts on her behalf, just like various celebs turning up on our screens only when they have something to sell.