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Noima

album by Peggy Zina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 4, 2024
Entity authorityQ7047612
Source-derived summary

Noima (Greek: Νόημα; English: Meaning) is the seventh studio album by Greek singer Peggy Zina. It was released on 12 September 2005 by Minos EMI and was certified gold, selling over 30,000 units. It was entirely written and produced by Giorgos Theofanous. The album was unique in that was released with four different covers featuring Zina with her eyes open, wearing Aviator style sunglasses, wearing a tiara, and with her eyes closed and hair flowing across her face.

Track listing

Singles

Six songs were officially released as singles at radio stations with music videos:

"Noima" (Νόημα)

"Mi rotate" (Μη ρωτάτε)

"Sou t' orkizomai" (Σου τ' ορκίζομαι)

"Ena simadi" (Ένα σημάδι)

"Anipomono" (Ανυπομονώ)

"Metaniono" (Μετανιώνω)

Credits

Credits adapted from liner notes.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Noima” as album by Peggy Zina. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Noima, album and Peggy.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2005—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2005. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Noima, album and Peggy providing the first useful test.
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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 4, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7047612. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from Noima” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.