My favorite books = my favorite places. #books #songwriter #singer #reconnect #literature #bookshelf #artist #artistlife This week is getting off to a good start. New connections, new songs, more music and stories of Georgia... it's funny, when we realize we don't need to find the path, we're already on it. And it's coming up to meet us. #music #songwriting #singer #artist #vocearomaniei #thevoice #romania #sweden #malmo #bucuresti #recordingartist #artistlife #teamsmiley
This photo shoot was magical (partly because of the coming rain, partly my sparkly shorts, but mainly because of #creating ❤) ## When you love your work because of every part of it - from planning, to dreaming, to making the big thing to the small things - then you're home. #singer #songwriter #vocearomaniei #vocea #photoshoot #behindthescenes #behindthephoto #romania #malmo #sweden #music #artist Two of the hottest men on the planet (not just when it comes to looks, damn you need to hear their music 😉) ## God it was a hard choice and man that was a big moment - foarte greu dar un moment foarte frumos 😁 Mersi frumos again to both @smiley_omul și @tudorchirila ## This is where it all starts. ❤ #vocearomaniei #vocea #thevoice #teamsmiley #singer #songwriter #romania #guide #artistlife #protv Great books were born out of a desire to create. Not to please or be liked. ## I have to pull myself out, because I can forget some essentials: I sing because I enjoy it. Because it comes to me and it always has. I love and bask in delicious experiences (Vocea is one). It's the experience in itself that is the rush and the thrill and the magic. ## I remind myself that Every person that has clicked, liked, looked me up or written a comment Is a living, breathing, Real Person. A soul. ## And you matter. ## We're not here to validate each other. We are here to connect With each other. ## We are here to create, to love, to have fun, to enjoy art and music and food and books and ideas and to expand as people. That's why we share our creations. Because we connect through them. ## That's why your comments mean more than you think because through them, through conversation, we build connection. Which is the ultimate gift #vocearomaniei #vocea #thevoice #teamsmiley #singer #songwriter #artist #creating #manifesting #romania #sweden #artistlife Such a goosebumps larger than life impressive gorgeous fun terrifying beautiful just heavenly moment in life. I can not put to words just how many emotions rushed through my body when I stepped out on to the #vocearomaniei stage. Foarte multe... am fost fericit, am avut emoții... totul 😍 ## THANK YOU - MULȚUMESC FRUMOS to every beautiful cheer of love and appreciation - you mean so much people! ❤️❤️❤️ Let's do. this! #vocearomaniei #teamsmiley #vocea #singer #songwriter #romania #sweden #music #thevoice #emotions The heat is on #vocearomaniei #singer #songwriter #recordingartist #artist #romania #sweden #hungary #guide #tourguide Today is the birthday of one of my dearest, most amazing, wonderful, best friends - gorgeous Adela! Adela is a local guide in Sibiu and we met when I came with my first groups about five years ago. From the beginning I was inspired by her way of bringing history to life AND thought "she's ways to cool to be friends with me..." 😉😁 ## Adela has been my champion when it comes to music and if not for her I wouldn't be in #vocearomaniei 💙💛❤ You inspire me to go bigger and better Adela, la mulți ani!! ❤ #friends #singer #songwriter #vocea #dreams #romania #sibiu #localguide #transylvania Václav Havel, maybe one of the wisest politicians we've had in Europe in modern times, said this in conversation with Adam Michnik in 1991 (!) ## It it still relevant. Nationality is easy to identify with. Our nations and their history, culture and traditions are important. Yet better when we let new influences work in tandem with them. #vaclavhavel #quote #singer #songwriter #val2018 #wisewords Its Election Day in Sweden today. Last night I had an electric experience in Romania. ## And it's funny how they connect ## After last nights performance the stream of love & congratulations from both strangers and loved ones was beautiful. And I'm really grateful for each.one. You mean a lot. ## And then. I got my first hate mail. Don't be upset, because I'm not. I'm fascinated. ## In short I was told, among other things, to "go home". As in back to Sweden. ## And I thought, prejudice and xenophobia is truly the same no matter the country. ## In Sweden we have a populist party who makes a difference between us and them. Who's quite open that some belong waving the Swedish flag and some apparently don't. Go home they say. Even to those who don't know another home. ## This was my first time experiencing even a smudge of that attitude. And it made me think of all of you who meet this often, even daily. Being told to go home, that you don't belong. ## Home is where your heart is they say. Sometimes we refer to the people around us but truly Home, like Love, is something we carry with us because it is in us, in our hearts and soul. It doesn't matter where we are in terms of geography, if we are connected to ourselves that's home. ## Romania is home to me. So is Hungary. And of course, my native Sweden. And actually, when I work in Prague or Kraków or Belgrade - I feel at home too. Because I know the streets, I know the scents and most of all I know myself. ## My Swedes, those of you who are going to vote today, I hope you remember that any party who can't see this truth is not aligned to themselves, to joy, to God, to Love. ## We can't Go Home. We Are Home #val2018 #singer #songwriter #vocearomaniei #artist #recordingartist #guide #romania #sweden I have only one city 💙💛❤ București tu ești in inima mea. You are in my heart. #bucuresti #singer #vocearomaniei #songwriter #bucharest #romania #bukarest #cityview #europe