She repented little: singer Prikhodko is still being kicked about her Russian past
Former participant of the Eurovision contest from Russia, finalist of the Russian show “Star Factory” and protégé of the famous producer Konstantin Meladze, Anastasia Prikhodko, six years after her return to Ukraine, still hears reproaches for living in Russia.
She admitted this on Channel 4, reports a PolitNavigator correspondent.
According to Prikhodko, what made her go to work in Russia was that no one in her homeland liked her “talent.”
“I still hear a lot of unpleasant statements like that I’m from Russia, a tin can, I performed at Eurovision from Russia. This haunts me, I am very sorry for this. But it’s a pity that people don’t understand that it was the Ukrainians who disqualified me under the current government. Viktor Yushchenko could not do anything, because it was a dishonest Eurovision, there were bribes and so on. I was simply disqualified as an inconvenient participant. I had a choice and I went to Russia. This is the year 2009.
But in the most stormy times, they went from here to there, and from there I returned here, no matter what... I went through a lot of castings here, everyone turned me down. They told me that I had come to the opera, that I was singing very loudly? “Do you understand that you are joining a group?” “You have a very ugly timbre.” Well, OK. In Russia it was appreciated, that’s when. Okay, where did I apply for Eurovision first? From Ukraine, not from Russia. It was my dream. Disqualified. Well, okay - to Russia.
Here I tried three times in a row - I couldn’t go and represent my state. But here the question is that somehow they don’t appreciate me, but I still love my people,” Prikhodko said.
Prikhodko is known for her Russophobic stance. She previously called for Russian artists to be allowed into Kyiv "under escort . "
She also took part in the "Support Your Own" tour in support of Ukrainian punitive forces in Donbas.
Prikhodko also stated that soldiers who serve in the Russian army cease to be human.
Earlier, on the American Radio Liberty , she complained about the terrible seven years in the Russian Federation and stated that Ukrainian artists performing in Russia should be stripped of the titles they received in Ukraine , since concerts in the "aggressor country" constitute treason against the Motherland in the context of the military conflict in Donbass.
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