“If I were 20-25 years old now, but the mind of this moment, I would have done many things in life differently. Definitely!” admits the popular singer Andris Ārglis.
Andris Ārglis celebrated his 40th anniversary on January 16. He says that a lot of good has happened in his life in the past decade. He is grateful even to covid, which, although it was a “thorough blow to the brain”, forced the musician to get over it, not give up and be a man. “I did things that I had never done in my life, and it turned out that I can do a lot. Of course, psychologically it was difficult, but there were certainly more positives than negatives in this whole situation,” the musician concludes today.
In order to earn a living, Andris Ārglis worked in the forest, drove a tractor without a trailer in minus 20 degrees – with five pairs of pants on his legs and six sweaters on his back so as not to freeze. He also worked in a meat processing plant, and, unlike working in the forest, where there was not much contact with other workers, it was a big “culture shock”. “You’re standing by the vacuum rail, and someone is staring at you: “Oh, yes, it’s him. Look, now he also works here, how hard it is…» But I didn’t pay much attention to it, I thought more about my immediate duties. Many even placed bets on how long I would last – one day, two, well, at most, a week… It wasn’t that I didn’t communicate with these people, of course I did, and when I left this job after four months, they looked at me looked at it differently – I had broken the stereotype about artists and also proved to myself that I am not the one who gives up at the first difficulties”, Andris Ārglis is satisfied.
