A wider audience will recognize the singer with the winning songs “Euphoria” and “Tattoo”, which are international hits, but her repertoire covers all kinds of circles. Eurovision gives the first glimpse of the artist’s work, but in the end it is only a fragment, the experienced concert will give the best overview.
Lorina’s musical activity is important tribal aesthetics and ethnomusic, electronic dance music and, of course, the melodiousness and concreteness of the message of pop music, which allows to reach the widest possible range of listeners. Her latest single “Is it love” tells about the depth of love, where there is also a place for pain. Being aware of the duality of life, we create a better connection with ourselves, says the singer. At the concert, the song was played several times, in different versions. The Riga public were attentive listeners and accompanied by singers, this time less dancers, although ecstatic dances fit well in Lorīna’s music. Before the concert, Lorina gave an interview in which she gave an insight into her life path and insights.
Aiga Leitholde: You have been the forge of your own happiness – you have grown from poor living conditions to a successful career on the big stage. How do you look back on this life journey?
Lorraine: When I look back, I can appreciate how important the instability of my childhood family was to the success of my life path. In the family, we – six children – were raised by a single mother. There was always something to do in our house. We helped each other. There was no possibility of going crazy – we had to do everything to succeed. This experience was the key to my own development. I learned how to stand up for myself and my beliefs even when people say it won’t happen. I learned to talk in my childhood, I learned so many different things! Some might say it has been painful, but I look at it as a really important experience. These are the very things that made me, allowed me to follow my own path.
When everything around you is safe, you are afraid to dare. When things around you are heavier, then you are not so afraid.
When I look back on my life, I can talk about my ability to make a decision, to dare again and again. I was afraid of what people might say to me, but on the other hand, it didn’t matter to me. I didn’t let other people’s opinion take over my body. The most difficult situations in my past: the absence of a father, being the eldest daughter, I take care of my brothers and sisters as well as my mother – I wouldn’t want to change that, because I like myself the way I am now, it is the key to my development. I have had both ups and downs in life. I know what pain is. I have seen them in my mother’s family line. I know what poverty is. But looking at it from the right point of view, appreciating this experience, it is possible to transform it into your power.
When did you realize things were starting to get better?
I knew what I was like since childhood. I didn’t think I would become an artist – no, but I knew since childhood that music, voice is my language. I didn’t care if I was going to be on stage. I sang my pain, my joy and my thoughts. Therefore, there is not a single moment in which something has changed significantly.
Knowing who I am, I would have continued singing even if my career had not worked out, but I would sing until the hour of my death.
It’s not about being an artist. You are still an artist even if you haven’t sold any of your paintings. Sales do not define you as an artist. You define yourself. Thank God and the universe that I have the financial means to do this, but I would still be who I am without them.
You know your heritage, you are aware of your individual voice and you use it to represent not only yourself, but also the interests and rights of other people. Often, however, people outside of their “bubble” or comfort zone do not want to be interested in standing up for others. How do you use your voice beyond just singing?
Yes, what is heritage is something beautiful, like beautiful cloths. Cultural heritage contains knowledge that we can use for our own benefit. At a time when cultural heritage, religion begins to separate us, is it more interesting?
The most important thing is the connection between us. The connection we have with ourselves is self-confidence and self-love. Our surroundings, which reinforce this, do us good.
That being said, I wouldn’t let legacy come between me and another person’s life. There is something more important than tradition and culture. If its purpose is to teach us, give us joy, let us get to know ourselves better, then it is good. That’s how I perceived it and that’s why I get involved in the activities of human rights organizations. When you know what pain is, when you see how others feel it, you naturally empathize. There is nothing more important than life. It is all-encompassing love. If you cry, I will feel it. We think we are separate from other living things around us, but we are not. The whole world is feeling what is happening in Gaza now. We don’t know what to do with ourselves. We are not separated from each other.
Yes, we live in difficult, painful times. We, in Latvia, sympathize with the struggle of the Ukrainians. Sometimes you get the feeling that it is not correct to attend a concert and experience joy at such a time. How do you see this point of view?
This is a beautiful question that I have thought about a lot. There is a lot of destructiveness in the world right now, but at the same time there is also a lot of awareness. It’s almost like two opposites meeting. It is interesting to observe how people’s awareness of things grows, how people feel freedom and the right to express their opinion, make life choices. We are all collectively connected, what better way to overcome destructive, generational wounds than to be consciously happy.
Wounds will not heal if they are approached with pain. At concerts, a person can experience the whole gamut of emotions – cry, laugh – and this helps to maintain constructivism, which is very much needed at the moment.
Change begins with one person making a choice, primarily for their own pleasure, to see things more truly this way. It will bring knowledge to situations that currently have no answers and that panic or sadness will certainly not help.
2023-12-04 12:31:55
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