Anonymous: The best days of our lives!

by Stella Floras 46 views

We started our interview with N!ki Francesca, the Anonymous lead singer, with him stating that he misses Eurovision and before we could even start asking questions he summed it all up for us: �Eurovision has helped us a lot as a band and we've met loads of new friends, it's been the best days in our life. We did our best and we are happy with the reactions!�

So, N!ki, how was your experience with your first Eurovision Song Contest?

It's been an incredible experience, I've learnt loads and loads of stuff and had a wonderful time! Basically all I've learnt has helped towards my career as a musician. Before Eurovision noone barely knew about Anonymous and we were just a simple garage band teaching ourselves. During the contest we worked with many professionals like Helen Rowson, our vocal teacher and Rechi, our choreographer of ATV from whom we have learnt techniques which have helped us develop.

How did you feel when you finally got on stage?

It was an incredible feeling, basically I felt like my idols when I was on the Eurovision stage, I felt like my band was the center of attention for 3 minutes so we had to try and do our best to get people interested in our music. The feelings I had, I suppose, are very hard to explain. I didn't really believe in adrenaline until I got onto the stage. When the song ended those words I said basically flew out of my mouth with excitement.

Stella Floras

Thanks to Johnny Logan and Hold me now I fell in love with the Eurovision Song Contest, a love that's been going strong ever since with undiminished passion. My first memories date back to 1977 and the lyrics of Rock bottom, Dschinghis Khan and A ba ni bi are still engraved in my brain.

I joined esctoday.com in 2006 as a junior editor after being invited by Barry Viniker, I soon became Senior Editor and during the 2007 contest in Helsinki I was appointed Head of Communications. Today I hold the post of Head of Human Resources and I am proud to be working with the best editorial team in the world.