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"I work hard, it's hard! I keep my family", the rare interview of Parashqevi Simaku, talking about life and dreams in the USA: I came with a different opinion, but...
2024-12-14 13:14:35 / AKTUALITET
A video published on the network of a lady who receives social assistance in America, has aroused strong reactions under the suspicion that she could be the iconic singer, Parashqevi Simaku.
The life of Parashqevi Simaku has been far from the eyes of the media and the public for years, after leaving Albania immediately after the fall of communism.
But before arriving at this point…. she was a star in the 80s in Albania, who stood out for her brilliant voice, iconic beauty and sensual photos that she made breaking the taboos of that time.
After performing several songs in her repertoire and winning awards at the Song Festival, her dreams turned to America, the land of opportunities as she described it.
In an interview she gave a year after immigrating to the USA, she told the journalist Alfred Kanini about the difficulties she faced, but also her ambition to enter the music market there.
"I was very connected to television, I have very good memories", she said.
Asked why she left Albania, she said: It's a very difficult question for me, but I can say that the conditions were created, not that I wanted to, but still I try, it's not that I'm changing. I ran away as an Albanian and here I am again an Albanian. I am very calm that now I am in a free world, I am free... first of all I am free as an Albanian, but this place here is very opportune where you can prove if you can do something. But whatever I can do in the future, I want to do it only as an artist, as an Albanian.
Simaku also talked about the difficulties she faced in New York, she had to work hard, study and help her family financially. During the interview, she often expressed that she was alone and life was very difficult and she was forced to sing in Albanian restaurants to collect money, even though she did not like that environment at all. She said that she had gone to America with other goals for her career.
"It's very difficult because my relatives know, I live alone and I don't have close people here. I work, I have been singing in Albanian restaurants for so long, popular music and light music... I had never entered this business, because I don't like to sing in restaurants, but I am forced because many things here have to start from "A "... Artists should try Hollywood, it's one thing to dream of going and another to do it. It is very difficult for a girl only from the city of Kavaja, to live in the middle of New York where you sit down and get up in a second, which I am not prepared for, because the place where we grew up in isolation, many practical aspects of life we don't know them and I face a lot of difficulties.
I came here with another idea, I thought to make a show for Albanians, to present values, because from the situation the country was in, including Kosovo, art has been forgotten and has been put far behind politics... I try, it's difficult, I sing patriotic songs because they love them here.
With this job that I've taken these days, that I've been singing, I've done a bit of economics, I can say very little because I also support the family, because I'm very connected to the family, my parents... I also go to school to learn the language. I have to work a lot," she said.
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