
The great singer, Parashqevi Simaku, has confessed for the first time the reason why she left Albania. In an interview for "Opinion", she says that she initially traveled to Italy, with a purchased passport.
"My mother told me, I'm going to see my brother in Italy, who was one of these refugees. She was always crying, but she said that you are very famous. I went to the embassy with my friend. That Italian ambassador had always seen me at these Christmas party evenings and remembered me. I told him please... You are Parashqevia, he said! Don't worry, he said, that I will call Dash Dervish. You will prepare a guest room, because I was also poor.
"I didn't have any money! I had a gift, they brought me that diplomatic car. A man and woman came from New York, and they wanted to have fun, to play music in New York. They were from Dibra, Macedonia, a man and a woman. They came and bought me a passport. It was a purchased passport, Calabrian. Victoria Marini! I spoke Italian, I looked Italian ," Simaku confessed.
On March 9, 1992, he arrived in New York, United States.
"I was shocked when I arrived. The first thing I said was why is the sky so high, in Albania we have those clouds like hats. It felt like I had gone to another world. The Albanians here loved me very much ," he said.
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