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A music means everything for me.

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I've been immersed in the music since I was born.

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I grew up in the musical family.

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I would like to present myself by music in the future, because

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I like it the most and the music is my heart.

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My great-grandfather played, then my grandfather too.

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Then whole my family began to play.

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And my father had taught me

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since I was four or five years.

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As to my beginning, my father taught me to play the guitar and taught me to sing.

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On the secondary school I started to learn saxophone playing.

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My grandpa taught me it.

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I was a self-taught player.

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My grandpa and grandma used to take me as a child to the celebrations,

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when there was some feast at my brother, like christening, for example.

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And people were playing there, but without any sound apparatus.

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Just accordion, violin, saxophone and contrabass were plying there.

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And what else was playing there?

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The drums, however, they weren't sounded as they are now.

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Everything is played there like this.

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People didn't sing into the microphone, they were just singing and others

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were listening it in given moment.

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Now people listen the music just from the radio

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and sing accordingly.

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My education started in Lomnica.

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First it was a kindergarten, then a primary school and secondary school in Košice.

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Then college, first degree in Košice.

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Social work, health care with the Romani national minority.

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And then the second degree of college.

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Social work, health care with the Romani national minority as well,

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at the St. Elizabeth University in Košice.

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I come from Veľká Lomnica.

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There is just one college student, and that's me,

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but several secondary school graduates.

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Before my role model was my father,

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who studied air defense in Liptovský Mikuláš.

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So, I was the second graduate and others followed.

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When I attended the primary school, everyone was still talking about him.

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That he was the only secondary school graduate

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from 1500 residents and he had good reviews.

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The people who knew him then also talked about school.

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Various lectures and discussions took place, he went there and talked.

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There was a happy time even sad time, as it is said.

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It is constantly changing.

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But i think I grew up in the good family.

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They motivated me in terms of music and education as well.

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This is the basis for me.

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And what else can I say?

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There was both good and bad time.

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I went through everything.

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And when my parents began to work, it was completely different.

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Because if my parents didn't work and they didn't have the finances,

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I probably wouldn't have an education either.

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Maybe I would be trained as a mason, or a carpenter, or a joiner.

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At first, you couldn't move anywhere without education

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and education is also an inspiration for you in the future.

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My first job was an assistant of a teacher

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At a specialized primary school.

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Then I continued as a field social worker in the village of Stráne pod Tatrami.

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Later I worked as a material management operator at Whirpool.

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I ended up there and found a job

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as a specialist in the community center.

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I still enjoy it, I don't have burnout syndrome yet.

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I'm still young, so my nerves are still pretty good.

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I am glad I can help those people.

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There are musically talented children, as well as sports talented children,

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also there are children who can paint nicely.

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They just don't have the resources.

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They are very bad financially.

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It is difficult.

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We try to help to apply for Roma scholarships those,

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who still go to secondary school.

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But those, who don't go to school, so they find it harder,

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they start work immediately,

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So they work hard.

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Yes, we even make various meetings in the community centers,

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where we present our music,

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and besides, we tell who we are,

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how we got to the music, where we have already performed.

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So those people perceive us a bit differently.

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When we meet somewhere in the city in Kežmarok or in Poprad, they'll say:

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´Aha, Lomnicko Čhávo´.

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And they already ask me whether we play or don't play.

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Sometimes I'm happy for it, that people perceive us.

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When I performed in Lomnica, we had the village days,

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I stuck a poster up that we would play there.

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All the children asked their parents for money, that they are coming to see us.

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I was happy and motivated...

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I say, good, they've seen us on TV.

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Some have seen us on TV, for example in ´Czechoslovakia's got talent´.

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People say how they've seen us singing and how people there reacted on us.

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They reacted good.

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I had excellent classmates.

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I had no problem with them.

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As to the education problems or some race attacks,

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I haven't experienced it yet.

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I tried to be friend with everyone and get along well with everyone.

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But, sometimes I'm afraid when I go to Bratislava,

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I try not to walk around the city in the evening.

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I'd rather go during the day and try to get back as fast as possible.

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Either to a hostel or a hotel and I know I'm safe then.

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My goal, at first, was to graduate in the college,

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then to find a good job, what I've already found I think.

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And concerning the music, my goal is to make us visible

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and mainly to make people to be in a good mood,

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to make them satisfied

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with our band and everything.

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I would like we success well and perform on the big stages

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like at the festival Pohoda and others where we've already performed.

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Not only in Slovakia, in the Czech Republic, but also in other countries, I don't know where yet.

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My goal is to be always on the stage,

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to make a good music and make people happy.

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Time will tell.