Marina Spanou talked about how the road came into her life, she mentioned the Eurovision chapter and revealed why she had never been to the bouzoukis.
Her songs go viral one after the other and as much as she likes them, she remains grounded, hopelessly romantic and anxious about the next step. The exotic and poetic Marina Spanou spoke to MEGA about how he started, the bullying he received with your “good morning” and the Eurovision chapter.
“Everything is a road;“, asked Nikos Syrigos, and Marina Spanou answered categorically: “All“.
Describing how this particular journey began in the field of music, Marina Spanou said that she chose the path, “because it was an impulse on the spot. I was walking in Areopageitou one evening, I saw a musician playing my favorite song and as I saw the Acropolis in front of the lights, the moon, I said I want to be here”.
“When I started singing in the street I was 17 years old. I wasn’t afraid then, now I wouldn’t have the guts to do it. Maybe because I’m a little more aware of what happens on the streets, what can happen to the people who pass by,” she said afterwards.
She also described her first contact with the street, when a street musician, “who had been in the courbetti for years, kicked me out of his place, telling me that was his place, but I was so ignorant to do it and I went a little higher and found the nicest spot I could”.
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Since she didn’t choose a game show to showcase her talent, she said: “It wasn’t telling me at the time. I wanted something more direct, to look people in the eye“.
Did you wait for it to go viral?
“I didn’t expect to go viral at all and that wasn’t the intention either. The fact that my piece (ie the Journey) is being sung so much makes me very happy that it has traveled in the ‘right’ and appropriate way and at the same time there is concern about the next step. […] I recommend to my friends who want to start singing and don’t know how to start from the eyes. Go out and sing”, he said afterwards.
Writing songs about love and flirting at a time when the new generation does not “get out” of the mobile phone and the screen, Marina Spanou explains that “I know that I and my friends, that we fall in love in other ways, with letters and glances and flirtations and everything we think is forgotten, but in the end it is. For me love is power and creation, not only for music but for life itself. Love burns me“.
Finally, Marina Spanou stated that she had never been to a bouzouki, saying that she usually does not like loud music, although she did not rule out the possibility of ever being in such a scene.
As to whether she would ever go Eurovision, said: “I’m too nervous to do this. Marina Satti is an amazing artist. We are very lucky that he is among us and that he has not gone out into the world yet, when he could. Marina Satti has had great training and is a star”.