Netta Barzilai Quotes

Netta Barzilai

Profession : Singer

Birth : January 22, 1993

I wanted to do pop music, and I wanted to dance. I wanted all this because that was me. This is my inner performer, that is what it wants, this is what my heart wants.

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I like to mix things up and I take inspiration from many different art forms.

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I started with soul music and icons like Aretha Franklin and Etta James and then moved to R&B and artists such as Erykah Badu and Lauryn Hill. Electronic music came later on, when I was in high school and I was really influenced by artists like Skrillex and Major Lazer.

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I worked as a barista and a kindergarten teacher. I really love kids and enjoyed every minute of being in a kindergarten.

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Fashion is a great love of mine. I'm used to looking really hard for clothes that I like and I am really fortunate to have an amazing team of talented artists who work day and night with me to create our visions and make them come alive.

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I've been doing a lot of internet performances... it's really weird for me to not feel the crowd, to not feel the people in front of me.

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I am a very poppy little girl. I wasn't allowed to be poppy at first because y'know in my mind, pop stars are thin and beautiful and light, and I've never felt beautiful, skinny and light.

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I don't sing beautifully or grandly or in a very 'moving' way. I am me - which is not very beautiful at times, and not very organised or regular.

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I see my music as a visual thing. When I'm on stage I am very expressive with my face and through my performance - kind of like an actress but not really, it just rises up from inside with the music.

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I work with an amazing team - I have a stylist and a hairdresser and make-up artist who are always wondering what I am going to do next!

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Israel is incredible, it throws the best party ever and people should come.

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I want to empower and love, to be empowered and empower others. Because when we send out good energy, it comes back at us and makes the world a better place.

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I knew nothing about Eurovision.

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I tried to get a job in music but was too unique to stand behind someone as a backing vocal or to sing in weddings.

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Tell me where to sing to solve the world's problems and I'll go.

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For years I would sit on the side when my friends swam in the water. There is no feeling worse than that, to be afraid of what people will say about you, or to be embarrassed by who you are and what you are.

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I didn't plan to go to Eurovision and I didn't plan on winning. I was a struggling musician, hoping for a couple of gigs.

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I was told all my life to sing like Aretha Franklin, or Adele, cover myself with black clothing and show more soul, sing bigger.

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I made 'Ricki Lake' as a big love show for the American culture: big jars of mayo and ketchup and industrial stuff and capitalism, which I celebrate, because I believe that the criticism comes with love.

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When I was about 10 years old, the 'Ricki Lake show' aired in Israel, and it was the first time I was exposed to American reality culture.

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