Re: Vdes Anita Bitri ne nje aksident tragjik!
Memorial service eshte sot ne STaten Island.
Ndersa te shtunen do organizohet nje benefit concert ku do mblidhen fonde per transportimin e trupave. vendi:
Recalling Anita in song - Musicians, others to gather to honor Albanian pop singer who died from carbon monoxide poisoning
October 21, 2004
Albanian folk musicians and hundreds of others will gather in Brooklyn Saturday for a memorial benefit concert in honor of Anita Bitri-Prapaniku.
Bitri-Prapaniku, who along with her mother and daughter died Tuesday from carbon monoxide poisoning in their Staten Island home, had often performed at charity events when she wasn't singing her Western fusion songs at Albanian weddings and parties.
But this time, the benefit will be for her.
"We will try to sing some of her songs," said Vait Hajdaraj, a guitar player and one of her former bandmates. "It's not especially for playing music. It's for remembering Anita, for paying our respects."
In April 2003, Bitri-Prapaniku was in Astoria, helping raise $10,000 for orphans of Velika Krusa, a tiny Kosovo village whose men were killed in the ethnic cleansing war.
In May, she sang at a Mother's Day event at a catering hall in Brooklyn. With her mother, Hazabije Bitri, 60, and daughter, Sibora, 7, at her side, the beloved Albanian singer presided over a dance contest and raised several thousand dollars for a local Albanian group.
The 4 p.m. event at the First Evangelical Free Church, at Sixth Avenue and 65th street in Sunset Park, is also billed as a farewell performance and will raise money for the return of Bitri-Prapaniku's body for burial to her native Albania, where she was a respected singer and violinist.
"Now we are doing a benefit for her. It's unfortunate," said Shqipe Malushi, executive director of the Albanian American Woman's Organization, who said the performer often gave of her time since arriving in the United States in 1996.
In addition to her former band members, performers at the event will include Albanian accordionist Raif Hyseni, singer Marita Halili and singers Frederick and Aida Ndoci.
Several family friends said the deceased singer's brother was en route from Italy to New York yesterday to identify the bodies.
Malushi recalled that shortly after arriving in New York for the first time eight years ago, Bitri-Prapaniku attended her first fund-raiser, a national flag day celebration.
"She came right after she gave birth and somebody held her baby while she was singing," Malushi recalled. "This is how she never spared herself."
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