In her personal career in music and on the paths that followed to overcome personal difficulties, the musician, composer and singer, was mentioned, Satinawithin the framework of The Upfront Initiative, held for the 4th year at the Athens Conservatory.

More specifically, Marina Satti, talking to Lifo’s print director, Tassos Brekoulakis, made a special mention of the periods of searching, doubt and introversion. As she said, the creation was the means to find her voice, not only musically but also existential. “Music is for me the language that helped me to communicate with myself and the world“, He said.

“It is my language and vocabulary to express a personal path I needed to do so that not all of this be left in me as repulsive. This is my main criterion“, He stressed.

On the occasion of her participation in Eurovision 2024, she referred to the way the report and recognition served as accelerators of change. “Eurovision was the vehicle to do things I have been imagining for a long time – both at the level of partnerships and in production level, video clips etc“, He pointed out.

As he revealed, the creative wave then triggered, led to the birth of “pop” and “pop too”, through which it explored extroversion, humor and joy, without guilt. Referring to her personal journey, she talked about the internal struggle between the need to be “serious” to take her seriously, and her spontaneous side, who wanted to express her freely and disregarded.

“I started making music since 2006, with ‘I’ll break mugs’ – alone, with friends, without knowing what I want to do. A year later, I began to see that there were other elements, more “street” inside me, and so the “fortune teller” was born. But even then I didn’t feel that I had completely found myself. After five years I made the Yenna album – an album around the creative process. Every time a circle was completed, I felt that I was conquering my space a little more, every area became more familiar, “he noted.

“But inside I knew I wasn’t just that. I had humor, I had dynamism, but I was afraid to show them publicly. I was afraid that they wouldn’t take me seriously – people, my teachers, the partners. But I wanted to make a project that talks about joy, humor, extroversion – all that made it difficult for me to show. This is how “Tucutum” came in 2023: something unhappy, free, without worrying what they will say, “he said, stressing that” today I feel freer than ever, “he said.

At the same time, referring to her first steps and challenges she faced, she noted that “at first it was difficult to ask for things that are now considered self -evident – I was afraid that I would look difficult or” shopping “,” he said. Asked about the age prejudice that women are facing, Marina Satti referred to Project Chóres, a 15 to 63 -year -old women’s choir in which she maintains artistic direction.

“They were telling me women with whom we had meetings that now that my kids were raised, I can do something for me“, He said. “I realized that my life was spending without really happy what was happening in the present. I lived with his logic now endured to achieve something later. So, until the enjoyment went downstairs, to new goals. I thought I had to start dealing with now. And that’s what I do anymore“He noted.

She also did not hide that in earlier phases of her life she was more frightened and hidden aspects of the self fearing public expression. In this context, she made a special mention in her latest release “Lola”. “Lola is my new song, released about three weeks ago. It started completely spontaneously – we wrote a beat in the studio, and from a coincidence the name “Lola” came out. For me, Lola is a dynamic and free woman who does not concern her what others will say. It is the one that breaks the boundaries and the boxes. “

In closing, he reiterated how important it is to give space to joy and honest creation, beyond signs. “Why is it bad to do something just for his joy?” He wondered.

The The Upfront Initiative conference is organized by Lifo and Tsomokos, with the aim of constantly promoting equality, diversity and integration into the public sphere.