This year, I was lucky enough to be asked to join the San Marino delegation at the Eurovision Song Contest in Lisbon, Portugal. My student Jessika was performing the song “Who we are” accompanied by Jenifer Brening and a few robots on stage. It was a great opportunity for me to experience the energy pumping through the Altice Arena, to meet such talented singers from all over the world and the people behind the scenes, the teams who work hard to put up the best performance possible.

Bumping into the great Russian celebrity Filipp Kirkorov backstage: