There’s no shortage of anecdotes in this first episode of Dear Singers. From Roxeanne who ‘nicked’ a song by Nielson and achieved success with it, to the music of her father who was ‘pushed down her throat’ at home ad nauseam: it is an evening with a smile and a proverbial tear. Roxeanne also briefly talks about the period after her father’s death.
Roxeanne has suffered a ‘nasty form of homesickness’ due to trauma. That stems from her childhood. She was placed with strange families when André had to perform – for example, she once sat naked on a father’s couch because they turned out to be nude runners – and there was no room to miss her parents. The death of her father was very hard for Rox.
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“The biggest blow came when my father died, my mother decided to write a book and I didn’t have my mother with me for nine months,” Roxeanne says openly. “Just when you need her so much to mourn. Every night I had a picture of my mother and father with me, every night cried to them: ‘Please come back.'”
She says she has had a ‘huge blow’ from the event. “You damage someone for the rest of their life with that. I’m a grown woman, but it’s very difficult for me to sleep alone. Then I get a stomachache and I don’t sleep. I vowed never to feel this way again. “
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Dear Singers can be seen on NPO 1 on Thursday at 8.35 pm.
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