Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Hungarian hipster popstar Alex Márta aka ByeAlex is the next one being interviewed by the Bicycling reporter Robert in Malmö 2013. Alex might be a man of few words but certainly he is a very interesting personality. Tattoos. Philosophy. Music. Metal band. Book. Gym. Is he too pop? What about humanity? And guess what? He's Eurovision virgin! Thank you Alex for this interview. Why ByeAlex? There's really no answer to that.  I used to say "pa" all the time which some find very annoying, so somehow it became ByeAlex... So you like to be annoying at times? Yes! Ha ha How long have you been using this name? 1,5 years... So that's also how long you have been in the music business.....? I always liked music. At 16 I started making music but not very seriously. I started taking it seriously only in the past five years or so. I started making electronic music, metal... and the ByeAlex project is about 1,5 years old. My real job is journalist, used to ...

He certainly was in Hungary. Totally unknown artist came out of nowhere and won the people's hearts and despite the media support for the talent show related artists (and there were many of them in A Dal this year!) majority of the Hungarian televoters went for this simple song that has something hypnotic about it, Kedvesem . Apparently a chief editor of a tattoo magazine (anyone knows if this is true? ), a few songs and videos to his credit ( Nekemte , Láttamoztam , Csókolom , Kedvesem and more here ). He didn't quite want to enter A Dal at first place, isn't into the circus around it and even fans (as meaning of fanatics) as he thinks he's just a guy and nothing to be fanatic about, and therefor wants to distance himself from all that. Talking about it as ByeAlex Project may come useful then, a bit like Finland's Axel Ehnström did as Paradise Oskar a couple of years ago. And after a concert or a night out the best way to relax and rest your ears is to listen s...