I was supposed to stay in Estonia for three weeks, I stayed there for five months

“The first time I came to Estonia, I was supposed to stay three weeks, but I stayed almost five months,” admits 35-year-old Norwegian singer Sarah Murray, who will perform the duet “Still Love” with Uudo Sepa at the Estonian song final this year year. But not only was the longer trip to Estonia fortuitous, but also the opportunities that led to participation in the singing competition.

Since last summer, Sarah Murray, from Norway, has been planning to spend about five months of the year in Estonia. Only in the summer months, she because she can’t stand the cold and she moved to the other side of the world, to Chile, to South America. “But here there is the same concern, because the houses are not insulated, so it is very cold inside the houses”, complains Sarah, laughing. She admits that she is so afraid of the cold that she does not return to her homeland during the winter months, even though she misses her family dearly.

Fear of the cold wasn’t the only reason Sarah gave up her medical job at a clinic almost ten years ago and went to Asia for a year. Then she was also driven by her passion for travel and curiosity for other cultures and languages. It was this trip to Asia, which brought Sarah, among other places, to Thailand, to bring back into the life of the Norwegian woman something that she had given up after a tragic event at the age of 17: her singing voice of she.

2023-12-10 10:14:26
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