How I Went to a Concert that Never Existed and Met Vlado Kreslin

Last summer someone posted a YouTube video on the Facebook page of a mutual friend. The video was called “Rulet” with two guys I’d never heard of—Šajeta and Vlado Kreslin. I usually don’t watch videos but I figured, what the heck? My work was giving me fits and I might as well do something besides stare at the screen.

This young man started singing in a foreign language. I couldn’t understand him but it was still nice… and then the camera switched to this bald headed guy singing, seated at a piano. I thought, what is this… and then he stood up and started, “Še zmeraj me skrbi…”

I swear I don’t know what happened to me. I still don’t. All I know is I felt something like an arrow pierce me right through my heart. Never have I been struck by such a voice and such words as those sung by this bald headed man. I must have listened to that video fifteen or twenty times right then, one after the other, trying to figure out why this was making such an impact.

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