The favored singer who represented our nation at Eurovision this 12 months “shaking” Europe and the world with “Zari”, talked about for the primary time, amongst different issues, the lack of her father, simply 40 days earlier than she set foot on the stage. in Malmö.
“My father died and we went to Komotini, as a result of there is no such thing as a Muslim cemetery in Athens – when the journalists have been searching for me and saying that I had not spoken to them, I used to be going to the funeral, in a cemetery that by far.
My father is buried there, he isn’t in Athens and I can not go to him tomorrow if I wish to,” says Marina Satti on lifo.gr
“And though I feel that he’s there, distant, alone – I’m haunted by this concept and this picture -, immediately I’m close to him and I see many graves with the identical date of dying: “26 /5, Syria”.
They have been individuals who drowned in a shipwreck and have been all taken there, in a number of half-meter graves. I’m on the opposite facet, “9/1 Afghanistan”, individuals drowned in one other wreck”, described the singer and is shocked.
“I do not know if I’m extra plagued by the picture of my father, who seems each time I shut my eyes, or what was occurring subsequent to him.
He’s my father over there, distant, for no matter motive, with a bunch of different individuals who additionally “grouped” them over there, distant. By some means my tune “Ah Thalassa” is that this picture for me”, admits Marina Satti.