Ένα μήνα μετά τον αποκλεισμό από τον τελικό της eurovision στο Ελσίνκι, ο εκπρόσωπος της Ελβετίας DJ Bobo, μιλάει για την eurovision αλλά και για τις προσπάθειες που κάνει ενάντια στην πείνα. Έχει ήδη πουλήσει πάνω από 13 εκατομμύρια δίσκους ενώ είναι και Πρέσβης κατά της πείνας του United Nations World Food Programme (WFP)
Πρόσφατα ταξίδεψε στην Αιθιοπία για να βοηθήσει στο πρόβλημα με τις ελλείψεις τροφίμων στο βόρειο τμήμα της χώρας. Ο 39χρονος star της Ελβετίας έδωσε συνέντευξη στο swissinfo και μίλησε για όλα αυτά:
Στην συνέντευξη διαβάζουμε:
swissinfo: Your elimination from the Eurovision Song contest was a surprise to many observers. How do you feel one month later?
DJ Bobo: I'm ok (laughing). We were really shocked at the time. But it's a TV show – nothing more and nothing less - involving lots of emotions from people from your own country. We tried our best and that's it. It was a very nice experience even if we were eliminated. We were in Helsinki for ten days and for nine of those we were the favourites – together with Sweden. In the end both countries came last. But [those] nine days were gorgeous.
swissinfo: Your song, "Vampires Are Alive", currently 17th in the Swiss Top 20, has attracted a fair deal of controversy, with Christian groups claiming it is satanic and calling for it to be banned. What was your reaction to this?
D.B.:
It was a bigger shock than the Eurovision. When we prepare a tour or show we
always have a theme. Two years ago it was pirates and for 2008 it's vampires.
When we were in Ethiopia
a guy from Spiegel magazine told us that people were trying to stop our song. If
you are in Africa and you see people dying and
then someone talks about a line of your song that some people are arguing
about, it feels so weird as it's got nothing to do with the real world. We're
entertainers – nothing more and nothing less; it's show business.
It was hard for me to understand and it surprised me that Switzerland has
extreme people like that.
swissinfo: What made you decide to become an ambassador for the World Food Programme?
D.B.: For years, we had been looking for a long-term project that we could support. The WFP [school feeding] programme was exactly the right thing as I have two kids.
One of its biggest programmes is called "Food for education". With only €30 (SFr49) a year you can send a child to school in Ethiopia, for example, and feed the child at school, which is the key to its success. Parents in Africa generally don't want to send their kids to school, as the kids have to work at home and help put food on the table. But by providing them with food at school the parents send their kids as they don't have to feed them. It's a very simple decision. The programme started in 1994 and its success is amazing
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