Singer-songwriter Ofelija has been singing and playing the piano since she was five years old. When she was very young, Ofelija won a place at a prestigious music school in Lithuania, and was quickly put on the piano track. Everything started at an early age for me, because I was learning music at a special music school.
It started from five years old, and I was in the piano speciality. I spent my young days playing piano every day — four hours per day. At first, it was only piano lessons and classical music, but in eighth grade I became really interested in jazz music and started working on that individually.
Then I started singing as well, and I thought about piano and voice together — I wanted to join these two specialities and create my own music. I thought that that would be my goal — what I want to do in life. So I am basically a professional pianist in classical and jazz music.
Heavily influenced by jazz, her music tastes lean more alternative. Ofelija even had the chance to sing with Bobby on stage at one of his concerts in Lithuania. I really wanted to sing with him. He was like my first idol. I was more into this than traditional jazz music, like swing.
I was always interested in more alternative music, and my own feelings and emotions; what I put into this piano — what I can do with the piano by just improvising, playing classical music, and creating my own style. In , the main focus for me, actually, was not music, because I spent a lot of time doing shows — TV reality shows and acting. My music was a bit separate, and maybe that was not good for Eurovizija.
