Ioulia Kallimani was on “Studio 4” this Wednesday afternoon (3/6) and talked about the beginning of her singing career, her shy nature and the fears she overcame to follow her dream.
“I was working in a shop at night, serving, and Nikos Gritsis came in, without telling me anything, and said: “Listen you are a singer, go away”. He had heard me in a nightclub, because they had given me the microphone. It was very karmic,” Ioulia Kallimani confessed.
It was very karmic.
She then revealed: “I was a very shy child. I was borderline not saying my poem in school, I would cry. Singing was the biggest confidence exercise I could give myself. Singing helped me to be who I am today. Very gritty and outgoing.”
“I felt that: ‘don’t you like this? Do it! You have to get over your fears, go to your fears.” “How are you going to be a singer if your legs are shaking all the time?” I was saying,” he added.
“Nobody told me to give up singing. My mum at first asked me if I was sure about my choice. The only thing that slowed me down was the crushes. The classic thing we women say, should I stop having a family. I didn’t know how it could be combined,” the singer concluded.
