Sami Saari will go through the events of 2004 on TV1 today.
Sami Saari still misses his good friend Aki Sirkesalo. Inka Soveri
Sami Saari is talking on TV about his late friend today Aki from Sirkesalo. The singer does it with conflicting feelings in Flinkkilä & In Kellomäki on TV1.
Sirkesalo and his family died in 2004 in the tsunami of Southeast Asia in Khao Lak, Thailand. The island fears that when the issue is raised again, people will get the wrong impression – as if he is riding his friend to death. That is not the case: the island rather respects the memory of Sirkesalo.
Hilku had to remember the Island itself in addition to Sirkesalo. He was supposed to spend Christmas with his then-wife in Hikkaduwa, Sri Lanka. The trip was already booked, but the doctor was absent from the game before leaving. The island’s spouse was finally pregnant at the time, and the doctor thought it would be safer to fly somewhere closer.
The disappointment was great, but the advice was followed. Instead of the Indian Ocean, the beak of the plane turned to the Atlantic.
– We went to the Canary Islands and were disappointed that we did not get to the tropics, Saari recalls Anne Flinkkilän in an interview.
Sami Saari also tells Anne Flinkkilä about her diagnosis of ADD, ie attention deficit disorder. Yle
Soon events of the same tropics were reported around the world.
– Hikkaduwa had been completely wiped out. We would now have one less soul singer in this country, Saari says in the program.
It didn’t happen, but the death of a friend was such a hard place that the Island sank into gloom for several years. The great loss combined with unemployment, penniless, and a kind of middle-aged crisis plunged the Island into severe depression. Memories of those years are foggy.
– It felt like my life was falling apart. I stayed at the bottom of the couch.
Eventually, the island still stood up again. That’s what thanksgiving music is all about.
Flinkkilä & Kellomäki today on TV1 at 5:10 p.m. See all TV programs and broadcast times in Telku’s TV guide.