Μαρίκα Νίνου has been played on NTS in shows including Supporter Radio - Summer of Love, featured first on 14 December 2019. Songs played include Zaira and I Ached In My Heart.

Marika Ninou (Greek: Μαρίκα Νίνου) (1922 – 23 February 1957), was an Armenian-Greek rebetiko singer, born Evangelia Atamian (Greek: Ευαγγελία Αταμιάν).

When she was seven years old, Ninou started going to the Armenian school "Zavarian". There she learned the mandolin and joined the school orchestra. Meanwhile, because of her voice qualities, she chanted at the Armenian Church of St. Hagop in Kokkinia.

In 1939, she married her first husband, and in 1940 gave birth to…