Amélia Anisovych moved the world when she sang the Disney hit in an underground bunker in Kiev. As a refugee in Poland, she hopes to one day be able to return to Ukraine.
She had moved the whole world. Last March, the young Ukrainian Amélia Anisovych, then 7 years old, sang “Liberated, Delivered”, the world hit from the cartoon “The Snow Queen”, from an underground bunker in Kiev. His video had gone viral, so much so that the song’s co-composer even responded to him. A year after the beginning of the war, BFMTV found the young girl refugee in Poland
Alongside her mother, young Amélia says she is “very well” but misses her father, brother and cat who stayed in Ukraine. Ten days after the girl sang her song, the girl left her country: volunteers contacted her family after the video was released and offered them social housing in Warsaw. Left with her grandmother, Amélia was accompanied by her mother.
“I go to school and of course I have a lot of friends. I’m also doing the Ukrainian school online,” she says, before returning to the video that made her famous.
“I chose this song because it’s the only one I knew,” she says. Her mother explains that Amélia was actually “a bit lost” at the time and had forgotten all the other songs she had learned.
“Of course it’s Ukraine who will win!”
The young Ukrainian can also look back on a stage experience: Laska, the Polish interpreter of the song from “The Snow Queen”, was actually able to locate her. “I just went on stage. I was a bit worried, there were an awful lot of people,” says the young woman, who also sang the ukrainian anthem at a benefit concert in Lodz, Poland.
“Of course”, Amélia “wants” now “to go back” to Kiev, but “the war has to end for that”. “But it’s not enough to say: Of course Ukraine will win!” she assures. Because she is certain that “love and friendship always win”.