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My name is Dušan Deme, I come from Lučenec.

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I´ve been involved in music since childhood.

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I come from a musical family.

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They were all musicians, both on my mother's side and on my father's side.

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It was my grandfather on my mother's side who led me to music the most.

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I have been practicing the piano since I was six years old.

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I also studied the piano at the elementary art school.

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And then, from the age of 14, I started to play in cafes, wine bars,

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at the social events and at all kinds of performances.

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I play the piano.

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I also finished elementary art school in playing the piano.

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But then, around the age of 14, I tried singing.

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I also signed up for singing, also as an obligation.

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And then singing came into it.

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So then, from the age of 18, I devoted myself intensively to music.

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HI also played on all kinds of ocean liners,

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on the piano, and as a singer until now.

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Gypsy music, folk songs are closest to my heart.

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And then it's a jazz.

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That´s all.

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Then, of course, some old Slovak dance music.

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Like Gabriela Hermélyová and other singers from that era.

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I'm still very interested in those.

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At the moment, what is current in Romani music

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is not so close to my heart.

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I tend towards those old songs that were sometime in the past.

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In the folk band, I only sing when we play some dance music.

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When I'm in a jazz band, I play the piano.

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But I already knew these guys.

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For example, I have known the clarinetist for many years, more than ten.

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And they use to call me, when there are events, and I'm so happy to come.

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And with the other boys too.

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Two of them are from Hungary.

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So I like to work with them.

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More people are interested in modern music

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than the classical Roma music.

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It also involves a financial aspect.

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Because when five or six of us with a cimbalom band come, it is more expensive for them

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than two people with a synthesizer.

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That's how many people look at it, that's the truth.

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Sometimes in the past there were a lot of gypsy musicians in Lučenec.

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From violinists to cimbalom players, there were an awful lot of violists.

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There is no one at the moment, no one.

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They all died out and young people don't want to learn such instruments anymore.

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I feel like it's ending.

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I feel like it's ending and it's dying out, this music.

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And that's probably how it will be, as I think.

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We were talking with lads just today, that there is no one behind us.

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Some young guys, no.

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Roly is a clarinet player and we don't know anyone younger than him who is learning to play the clarinet.

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Therefore, if we need a violist, we have to call one from Hungary, because there is no one here.

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There is one guy in Rimavská Sobota who is very good, but he is in high demand.

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They call him everywhere.

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That's how it is now.

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There are songs from around Lučenec.

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But there are, for example, our old family songs that my grandfather taught me.

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My grandmother taught me the words because she used to sing with him.

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So this is how I remember my grandparents

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and I want to bring it back a little bit, if possible.

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Let these young people hear the music of the past.

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Our region is so mixed, where Hungarian, Slovak, and Romani are also spoken.

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In our family, everyone used to speak Romani.

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So I also learned and I also speak Romani.

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So, in our home, only Romani was spoken.

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Roma culture will always exist.

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In my opinion, it will never die, as long as the Roma are on this Earth.

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It will always be here.

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Whether in this form or in another form, but in some form it will always be.