Interview to Bulgarian Media

Report and interview translated:

Last night Elena Paparizou started the promotion of her latest album. You can see her on the stage of the club and later on hear what she said in an interview she gave for our channel.

One of the biggest Greek stars Elena Paparizou chose Bulgaria as a first step of her European tour. The beautiful Greek woman performed the songs of her album Giro Apo T’Oneiro in a remarkable show. Her professionalism was as respectful and influential for the hundreds of guests there as her wide smile, remarkable voice and stage charisma. Before Paparizou went on stage other star performed not any less spectacular show. Elena Parisheva performed a mix of her greatest hits together with ballet “Magic” and their creative choreography.(….about the Bulgarian star, nothing important). The culmination of the evening was as spectacular as it had been expected. Elena Paparizou greeted the guests and called them her brothers and sisters and stated her happiness to be in Bulgaria and perform for all of her friends. The most special among them, Slavi Trifonov, was not available and couldn’t welcome Elena. Among the biggest fans of Paparizou ended up to be Zlatka Dimitrova. She didn’t stop singing along with her favorite artist and was passionately cheering for the rest of the audience to follow. Most excited of all was a fan who succeed getting on stage and sang together with her beloved artist. Now we offer you exclusive interview with Elena Paparizou.

Reporter: Nice to meet you! You took a very long pause and finally tonight you are going to present your show. Tell us a bit more about this long pause of 2 years before you presented your new album at the end of the last year. Why so long?

Elena: Why I took such long pause? Unfortunately sometimes in people’s lives very bad things happen. In 2008 my father passed away in the Christmas day. It was a very difficult time for me and I needed long time to get over it and recover from the loss. The most important thing was that all the people I worked with supported me and gave me courage to move on. It’s normal to be depressed when you lose somebody very beloved. But what matters is that I’m back and I’m back for good.

Reporter: Tell us more about the songs in your new album. You are going to present it here tonight and also around whole Europe.

Elena: First of all, I still have my show in Greece with Antonis Remos, very famous Greek singer, and we still work together every Friday to Sunday in a night club in Athens. And we try to combine that with European tour, which is not going to be the usual tour with concerts but more like performances at club sections first of all. Bulgaria is actually the first step of that tour which is good because I remember that Bulgaria was the first country Antique performed outside Sweden. I love Bulgarian people, I know that part of them love the Greek music, I know they love me, and I know how much they miss Antique. And tonight I’m going to perform a couple of songs of Antique, I know they will love them and I’m very happy to be here tonight.

Reporter: Do you have friends here in Bulgaria?

Elena: You know, with all these years I made a lot of friends here, even from the record label which released the Antique albums and with people we don’t work any more. And I truly believe that you realize who your real friends are when you stop working with them. And they are here tonight. I’m going to see them and have a little chat for 5 min because after that I must go on stage. I believe I have a lot of good friends here in Bulgaria and I will make more friends.
Reporter: Are you happy in your personal life?

Elena: I’m very happy, I think you can see it in my eyes, I’m very happy as a person. I always believed that all the problems can be solved like in the Math. The Mathematics has a problem and you can solve it. So if I have a problem I have to solve it. It’s very easy.

Reporter: Which is the next step you are going to make?

Elena: You mean with discography or concerts or what?

Reporter: With concerts and in your private life.

Elena: In my private life I don’t know what will happen. Sometimes is not good to plan anything, especially in relationships. You must work on them so they can be good. When it comes to discography, I’m going to make a compilation of my best hits after Antique with a few new songs. We start from here, then we will go back to Greece and then we will continue, we’ve got Germany, Romania. They are discussing different things so I’m just excited. I’m here.

Reporter: You have a duet with Slavi Trifonov. Would you make another with other artist?

Elena: I was actually discussing this today with my PR manager because I love Bulgaria very much. We would like to. I would love to make another duet with Bulgarian artist, a new one or why not with Slavi again because everybody knows how much I love Slavi.

Reporter: Thank you so much!

Elena: Thank you!


note: I tried to use mainly Elena's own words but generally it was very difficult to hear her under the Bulgarian dubbing so I mixed her words with what was dubbed.

Thanks a lot Anna! Highly appreciated!!!

thanks Anna

thank you very much for your effort translating

You are welcome guys! It wasn't any pain at all, on the contrary, it was my pleasure. I just tried to make it as authentic as possible.

thank you a lot !!!

Thanks!

Anna thank you so much for the translation!

small clubs --- i guess for REX club in Düsseldorf, Germany, then.

many thanks anna!!!

thanks Anna!

Thanks alot - interesting stuff!