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Dalina Buzi: Parashqevia requested this video herself

2024-12-14 17:08:47Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA REDAKSIA VOX
Dalina Buzi: Parashqevia requested this video herself
Dalina Buzi and Parashqevi Simaku

Since the topic of Parashqevi Simaku's situation was raised, I am truly sorry, but Parashqevi once chose to make a total break from Albania. In 2003, I went to the USA as a journalist for Top Channel, to follow the then president, Alfred Moisiu, to a UN session in New York and I used the time to interview Albanian singers who lived there (Anita Bitri, Aurela Gace, Merita Halili, Gëzim Nika and Parashqevi Simaku).

Parashqevia had a live performance in a small bar. She was accompanied by her ex-husband. A few years ago she had released an album under the name 'Vivian Simaku' with something of the 'new age-ethno' type which I had bought with pleasure. (Forgive me if I don't remember if it was an album, or if she was part of an album with different artists.)

I approach Parashqevija to speak and she speaks English to me. She refuses to speak Albanian, even though she is polite and sweet, as is her communication style. She talks to her husband and tells me that "for now I will sing". I tell her that "I have come all the way from Albania", etc., but she doesn't care.

I called her again, because normally she would be doing news in Albania, and she literally told me: "My manager doesn't want me to talk." The manager was her husband. When I returned to Albania, I told the bosses at 'Top', who even added it as text to the documentary even though I was against it.

However, Parashqevia could be called delusional by many, but she, perhaps alone in a large country and under the hypnosis of her husband (I think they had both hypnotized each other), projected herself only for the American market and wanted to enter and present herself there as an American. Two years after she left, she returned to Albania with Robert and spoke Albanian with an American dialect. 2 years!!! (Arbëreshët speak Albanian better.)

Her desire to assimilate completely was almost extremist. Being an idol and 'sex symbol' in Albania and clashing with an insensitivity of American showbiz towards foreign artists; perhaps excessive trust in her husband without any management background and much less qualified and not as successful as his wife, were perhaps the first blows for her. Someone even told me that when she came to Albania, she claimed that her wedding would be broadcast on CNN.

Of course, in the 90s, Albanian artists didn't have that much information about America. Parashqevia, who was initially welcomed by the American community like GOD, and even had a lot of $$ poured into helping her career, had all the rights in the world TO DREAM AND TO FOLLOW THE DREAM.

But at 29 years old, with a dialect and a biography not very attractive to the American market and perhaps AT THE WRONG TIME, she could not become 'the POP Star', a place reserved for Americans, Canadians and English people.

The point is that Parashqevia, in my opinion, flew higher than it should and refused to touch the ground and, moreover, refused to even feel mother earth.

She exploited her connection to Albania a little in her 'ethno' album in the late '90s (I bought that album in the USA), but perhaps she was still looking for that stardom she had in her homeland.

It's unfortunate to say, but considering my personal experience, Parashqevia with three names (Vivian and now Simaku) is a victim of its downfall from the long flight above the clouds and perhaps from excessive trust in people who sought to shape it into something that was difficult to do after 29 years in an isolated communist country.

She erased Albania because she thought it would hinder her, but she sought the sky of America like an Albanian star.

This is my observation, but obviously I know nothing about her other personal stories and challenges in family and with mental health.

However, her deliberate disappearance for her plans in America turned the artist into an icon in Albania. She "died" for us magnificently, as Vaçe Zela died, who walked away from the microphone long before she left this life. So this video that came out now was shocking, because we had already disappeared from life among living artists with concerts and Instagram and had placed her in a mausoleum with the great dead.

Parashqevia is alive, under a different name, and collecting donations.

Our idol, our 'pop star', the first 'sex symbol' in Albania, the 'Malena' of the '80s, appeared weak, defenseless, abandoned.

This was the meeting that Parashqevia would never wish upon herself in a thousand years.

It would have been better if we hadn't seen that video, but we did, and it probably wasn't unintentional.

Vivi deliberately left Albania for so many years, but today, if she is able to understand, she can see that Albania is what she loved the most and that she would never let her wander the streets like an "old woman enjoying a blanket."/ Anabel.al


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