Roxen "Amnesia" | Romania Eurovision 2021 INTERVIEW

Roxen — Romania's Eurovision 2021 singer — tells us that her song "Amnesia" encourages openness around mental health issues. "The message is to speak your truth and to ask for help if you need it — even if people judge you," she says. "At the end of the day the most important thing is for you to be safe. I just wanted to give a voice to people who struggle, because I know very well what it means." She says she was sad following the cancellation of ESC 2020 and started working on songs almost immediately. "I didn't have something else to do — I was just in the house thinking about it." Hearing "Amnesia" was like a light switch coming on. "I started imagining the staging and everything as it is. I told everyone it's a must to have dancers because it was in my head and it came true." The Cluj-born star also discusses her live-on-tape performance, her stage costume for Rotterdam, her seven cats, why she doesn't eat meat and her high school music teacher Mihai Băcilă — the father of Romania’s Eurovision 2017 star Ilinca.