25 Rreshtat e Mirës

Can we save Parashqevië?

Can we save Parashqevië?

I can't count how many messages I've read in 4 years inviting Parashqevi Simaku.

If there was one person I would have made any sacrifice to interview, it was Parashqevia.

I grew up in the '80s, right at the moment of Parashqevia's brilliance, which was the dream of men, the model of women, the muse of a society. Because Parashqevia had both beauty and talent, and to this day we can't find a singer who has that kind of beauty from the moment she opens her mouth.

Parashqevia fled to America immediately. Ambitious to capture Hollywood. In her first interview she appeared even more sophisticated and ready to touch her dream.

I tried to look for him. The answer I got was that he had become a vagrant. I refused to believe it.

What happened to the Albanian star who ended up wandering is a multimillion-dollar question.

Disappointment with the American dream or something else?

What happened to the Parashqevië that endured communism, survived the lust of men, and that Parashqevië that appeared in fur coats and in a cottage by the fireplace in America?

What could have happened to the man Albanians would always pay to hear sing?

These are rhetorical questions.

But today I would like us to do a lot and save Parashqevië, always if we still have time, so that it accepts to be saved.

The Albanian embassy in the US can request information and the Albanian state should do something for an artist. The moral obligation we have to people of art not to be humiliated. The obligation we have to every human being to have an old age with dignity, in fact.

If her family members have abandoned her, we must save Parashqevië, as a state and as a society, because yes, destinies are individual and Parashqevië belongs to America, as she has been a citizen there for over 30 years, but this does not make her a foreigner nor does it diminish the moral responsibility for an Albanian who in her time gave her people music, beauty, and dreams.