The singer lost her trusted friend, but she doesn’t want to dwell on bitterness.
The tango queen of 1995, Marita Taavitsainen, 54, has been one of Finland’s brightest pop stars since the 1990s, and she toured around Finland very hard and successfully.
When she returned from maternity leave to the concert stages after the birth of her first child, she discovered the harsh truth. Taavitsainen’s deeply trusted gig seller and the child’s godfather had quietly left the singer without paying gig fees of around 150,000 euros.
Taavitsainen has opened up about the embezzlement of his gig salesman over the years and recounts the events also in Wednesday’s Help-in leaf. The singer never took legal action against her former credit friend.
– I trust that Karma is a bitch. I think I hardly have that money anymore. It would have been used for something. Sometimes I think about what happened and feel a prick of bitterness. Then I state that it is pointless to spend time on it. It leads nowhere, Taavitsainen says in Avu.
– Bitterness and anger do not bring me down. I live my own life and try to hold on to the strings that I can. Maybe I’m too blue-eyed, but I want to trust people.
Marita Taavitsainen has been one of Finland’s brightest pop stars for 27 years. Jenni Gastgivar/IL
In 2015, Taavitsainen told Iltalehti that breaking an important friendship felt even worse than financial loss.
– Sometimes I still wake up at night, and the thing thumps in my mind. It’s very sad. Also because Stella lost her godfather. I was too confident, Taavitsainen told IL in an interview seven years ago.
Work as a bingo hostess
Taavitsainen’s singing career experienced a bad crash in 2020 after the start of the corona pandemic. He survived the sudden end of gigs with the money from the sale of his house and old savings.
Taavitsainen currently works as a bingo hostess on cruise ships, but she has no intention of leaving singing. The work on bingo will continue at least until next summer.
– For me, this is an additional card up my sleeve, I can do this in addition to singing. During the Corona era, when there was a ban on singing and dancing, this was a clear job, Taavitsainen says in Avu.
Last summer, Taavitsainen also had two summer theater roles; Stray dogs– in the musical play and in the story of singer Reijo Taipalee The king of fairy tales in the play.
Recently, Taavitsainen has also actively dabbled in interior design.
– You can immediately see your own handprint on it. Singing is shouting into the wind, there’s nothing left but applause, the singer said in the summer.