Yesterday Saturday afternoon Marinella breathed her last at her home and the sad news of her death spread grief across the nation.
Sissy Christidou, particularly moved, spoke this morning about Marinella at the launch of the show Smile and Again.
“Good morning everyone. This Sunday, a heavier Sunday than the others, because we are talking about a mourning that concerns all Greeks. We are talking about a great lady. Not a great lady, the great lady of Greek song really. I don’t know, I was very touched yesterday and Stamatis Fassoulis said “I feel mixed emotions and a strange relief”, because I understand for the people who were close, when a person suffered so much like this…
How mixed emotions can be, and yet you still can’t help but grieve for this loss. For a woman who has left such a legacy behind, and I won’t just say about the singing guys. I’ll say about the fact that she was one of the women who, at a time when she couldn’t take much of this, stood up, pants on fire, and claimed so many things beyond the top spot in Greek singing. She claimed a lot of things for women, for ethics, she set other standards in singing, other dignity, other aesthetics. She earned that and we owe her that,” Sissy Christidou said.
