Stamatis Kraounakis spoke on “Evolution Now” with Anastasia Yamalis, this Sunday afternoon, about Marinella who passed away a few hours ago at the age of 87.
The well-known music composer spoke from the heart about his long personal relationship with the late singer and focused on an element that won him over completely in her.
More specifically, Stamatis Kraounakis first confided that “at ERT’s ‘Bees’ I met Marinella, a very warm summer writing to her… very touching, a very giving person. A very rich at heart, satiated, person. It’s important in our conversation today to say a little thing that shows her character.”
“I had written her the song by Marika Suez where the lyric said, what she says about herself, ‘I am a goddess’. She says “darling, I can’t say that, let others say it”. She didn’t want to say it about herself. We did it as a dialogue with the other actors, an excellent cast, and the company would reply “you are a goddess”. In that dialogue, let’s say, she kept one last snarky one.”
“That shows something. It shows a deeply religious person and that’s what Marinella was, apart from huge artifice. Whatever I did, whatever innovation she brought – because she changed the night – at the back of her throat was her property. There she knew how to concentrate and be extremely precise, alarmingly so at times,” Stamatis Kraounakis also added about Marinella on the Grand Canal’s “Developments Now”.
