FLASH
Shkruar nga Mira Kazhani
What happened to the Paraskevi who endured communism, survived the pressure and lust of the men of those years and that Paraskevi who appeared in furs and in a cottage by the fireplace in America?
I can't count how many messages I've read in 4 years for me to invite Parashqevi Simaku. If there was one person I would have made any sacrifice to interview, it was Parashqevia.
I grew up in the 80s, fixated on the moment of brilliance of Parashqevi, which was the dream of men, the model of women, the muse of a society. Because Parashkevia had both beauty and talent and to this day we cannot find a singer who has that kind of beauty when she opens her mouth.
Paraskhevia fled to America immediately after the fall of communism. Ambitious to capture Hollywood. In her first interview, she appeared even more sophisticated and ready to touch her dream.
I tried to look it up. The answer I got was that he had become a stray. I refused to believe it.
What happened to the Albanian star who ended up abandoned is a multi-million dollar question.
Disillusionment with the American Dream or something else?
What happened to the Paraskevi who endured communism, survived the pressure and lust of the men of those years and that Paraskevi who appeared in furs and in a cottage by the fireplace in America?
What could have happened to the man that Albanians would always pay to hear him sing?
They are rhetorical questions.
But today I would like to do a lot and save Parashqevi, always if we are still in time, so that she agrees to be saved.
The Albanian embassy in the USA can request information and the Albanian state should do something for an artist, just as it has established a special pension for many artists. The moral obligation we have to the people of art not to be humiliated. The obligation we have to every human being to have a dignified old age, in fact.
If the family members abandoned her, we, as a state and as a society, must save Parashqevia, because yes, fates are individual and Parashqevia belongs to America, because she has been a citizen there for over 30 years, but she remains Albania and that does not make her foreign and does not reduce the moral responsibility for an Albanian who in her time gave her people music, beauty and dreams.
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