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| Eleni Foureira, in her interview with Nikos Hatzinikolaou and on the show "Enopios Enopio" |
Eleni Foureira, in her interview with Nikos Hatzinikolaou and on the show "Enopios Enopio", talked about her origin, the difficult childhood years in Albania and the bullying she received because of her origin, when she came to Greece, while she mentioned her real name.
The difficult childhood years of Eleni Foureira in Albania, due to the civil war
As the singer emphasized, "I came to Greece when I was 8 years old. I have "deleted" during bad times in my childhood, like the civil war. I remember being with mom at home one day and an alarm siren started going off. We woke up scared. But my mom reassured us. But for the next two months, we were constantly on the floor. My father, who was already in Greece to collect money, sent a taxi to bring us to Greece. My mom was alone with 4 minor children. My mom had a carbine and she used to go out and shoot the guns in the air to show that she has a gun so that we wouldn't be in danger."
Eleni Foureira adds, "Greece is my whole life, it is my homeland. The bread tasted different! And the guys who were bowling to me didn't know why they were doing it. At school, we were two foreign children from Albania. It was hard to understand why I was being fingered. It was hard to understand what racism was. I didn't know why it happens because. Albanians were not accepted by society then. When you are a child and you are not accepted by society because of your origin, you feel weak and you fear that you will not be given the opportunity. When I realized that people love Eleni, I felt the strength to say it".
Eleni Foureira feels that Greece is her homeland