That's why Parashiev Simaku left Albania

In an interview for “Opion”, it shows that it first traveled towards Italy, with a passport purchased.

My mother told me, I'm going to see my brother in Italy, who was one of these refugees. She always cried, but she said you were very popular. I went to the embassy with my friend. That Italian ambassador had always seen me on Christmas Eve and remembered me. I told him please, but you're Paracevia, he said! Don't worry, he said I'm gonna get David Dervis on the phone. You're gonna get your room ready because I was poor.

I had no money! My present, I got that diplomatic car. There's a man and woman from New York, and they wanted to have fun, play music in New York. They were from Debra, Macedonia, husband and wife. They came and bought me a passport. It's been bought by a passport, a castle. Victoria Marine! I was speaking Italian, looking like Italian”, confessed to Simaku.

On March 9, 1992, he arrived in New York, United States.

I was shocked when I arrived. The first thing I said was why the sky is so high, in Albania those clouds are like hats. I felt as if I had gone to another world. Albanians here loved me very much. ”

You're the one who said it was a big success in music.

For us it was a fairy tale! ”