Eurovision is an event without equal, there is no other festival like this. Currently we are very excited with Amaia and Alfred (although we would also have loved that the chosen one had been the bad), but we had already a time in which Eurovision had become a mockery with artists like Chikilicuatre or moments like cock that Manel Navarro gave us in the last edition.
But before this kind of "degeneration" we all took the European competition very seriously and we were angry with Eastern Europe for voting among them, while we depended on Portugal and, from 2004 to 2009, on Andorra.
The truth is that if we try to make a memory, it is hard to remember any epic song since, almost always, the most embarrassing moments come to mind, not the songs, except for Lordi (the Scandinavian group that played rock disguised as demons). They combined freak and talent.
But in 2003, some young people managed to carve a niche in our collective imagination and not precisely through their song, although a little yes.
t.A.T.u was a group formed by two Russian girls named Lena Katina and Julia Vólkova. Before arriving to the festival they were already known all over Europe because they presented a very hot video clip in which they had lesbian relationships, something quite taboo and controversial in Russia, even today.
In fact, it was speculated that the two starred in some risqué scene in the same show and that made, that year, the Eurovision festival recorded a truly remarkable audience in all countries.
But, when the moment of truth arrived, there was no live fillet and, although they did not manage to win, they were in a deserved third position, since, as we have said, the song All the things she said was quite good. In fact, once Eurovision was finished, the group did not take long to become one of the most successful of all time in their country and an icon of the LGBT collective. But, from one day to the next, they announced their separation due to a fight and disappeared from the public eye. So the question that we all have is the following: What happened to them?
Later, the girls explained that they did not get angry with each other, but with the industry and, more specifically, their manager, who forced them to generate one "scandal" after another even though, as they themselves revealed, they were heterosexual and all the paraphernalia was nothing more than a (successful) attempt to give them an international relevance that went beyond music (at present both have a husband and children). That is to say, controversy and homosexuality were used as a method of promotion, defrauding many people.
But what happened to their musical careers? Well after trying to ride a folk group they ended up separating their paths. Lena released a solo CD called Never Forget, with which she was quite successful. Then he was able to continue with his career, but only at the national level, where he continues to release new albums and give interviews.
ulia also tried his luck, but he did not do as well as his ex-partner and also later had thyroid cancer that caused damage to a vocal nerve. But he did not give up and ended up doing business and opened a shoe line called C & C Shoes.
As we see, although not with the same success, both have been able to continue with their lives without being stigmatized by what happened, but this case is quite representative of what the record industry is capable of doing in order to sell records.
SORRY FOR MY ENGLISH... :)