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From the Song Festival to the cover of Vogue/ Bleona Qereti recounts details from her career: How I became famous
2025-12-25 22:59:43 / SHOWBIZ
Singer, Bleona Qerreti, has recounted details from her musical career, while focusing on several specific moments.
She recounted the moment she first performed at the Song Festival when she was only 15 years old and the 'clash' she had with Vera Grabocka over her slightly revealing outfit, which caused a stir at the time.
She has revealed some of the names of the artists she has worked with, while distinguishing the art of today from that of the early years. According to her, what has made her famous is precisely her style and rebelliousness.
"I would like to highlight, today it occurred to me, I was 15 years old when I sang at the Festival and I saw the dress at Miss Europe 1995. Without anyone knowing, I was accepted to the Festival. At that time, there were only five names that were accepted to the Festival. Selim Ishmaku, Alfred Kaçinari, Vera Gabrocka, Zhani Ciko, Alqi Boshnjaku.
The dress was talked about in terms of size and size is part of the marathon. I want to stretch. The artist who resists the times is truly an artist. What I've been really aware of is that I know how to resist time.
I wouldn't focus on the physical element, but on the resistance over time, to come out in the same suit after 30 years. Back then there was only television. Today it's very easy to become famous.
If these names told you that you were not accepted into the Festival, you would not have a second chance. With my rebelliousness, I went to the wardrobe and the person in charge said to me: 'If Vera Grabocka sees you here, she will strangle us both'. I go, take the dress and while I was zipping it up, Vera Grabocka comes in and says to me: 'Where are you going half-naked?'. I stayed, while Vera closed the door.
"I realized that if I went out in this outfit at the Festival where Vera Grabocka was the director, the answer would be no. In the middle of the performance, I took off my cape and Vera Grabocka held the camera to me and the next day when I woke up, I was Bleona Qereti ," Bleona said.
She also shared how she managed to land on the cover of the prestigious fashion magazine, "Vogue Latina", which she does not call a personal success or a matter of luck, but rather proof that 'dreams must be grabbed by the hair'.
"I am used to being judged and always being looked at with a magnifying glass for the decisions and actions I have made. People here judge from a different angle without ever knowing what idea was behind the decisions. I have also been judged for the limits of the brains of the people who spoke about me. Their limits are not my perception. I would not classify getting on the cover of Vogue as a personal success, but a proof that dreams should be grabbed by the hair, it is not a matter of luck. Success is like an iceberg. This is the fruit of many years of my work and a self-sacrifice, things that Albanians do not know. I started a brand back in 2013 and I did a photoshoot with a Vogue photographer, because for the brand that I wanted to present to America, he was the one who had photographed Monica Bellucci more than anyone else.
"America doesn't want an ugly copy of the names they have. I did an analysis of what I would offer America and what it might love me for. With my calculation, it turned out that America doesn't have a Pop Singer, a Monica Bellucci in a pop-singer form with a Gaga and Madonna personality. There has never been a classic person with a crazy personality. I combined the look and the personality. For America, I will never be an American artist but a foreigner who is famous in America because she is famous somewhere else. It's easy to say I went and know, but the good thing about successful people is that they understand that they don't know. I let professionals make the right decisions about things that I didn't know," Bleona said on the Top Story show.
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