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First thing you have to do is question yourself who owns all the major record labels in the UK and USA (and actually who owns the BIG music business literally everywhere). Then (if you are not totally brainwashed) you will think twice is it worth to sell your soul just to be (literally) a devil puppet. Not even a rich puppet! Just a puppet who's working for a meal. A contract with so called "major record label" means everything you create and everything you are belongs THEM. They literally own you. You own nothing. Signs and symbols rule the world... i mean all the music videos look the same for a reason. Look at estonian artists music videos who made a deal with major record company lately. All waving hand signs like Metallica or Tupac. All the videos are suddenly full of pyramids, triangles, so called "OK" signs, touching glasses, V-signs... ("victory"? who won what??) "heavy metal fingers"... C'mon... Star? What does star stand for? Just a puppet deceiving people. Some people value artistic freedom. That's the truth.

Vaiko isn't egoistical, if he had been then he would have jumped at that chance to be internationally famous. But he's more interested in making the music he wants to, in the way he wants to, without anyone telling him what to do. His material is so varied in its nature that record company idiots who want to make a nice predictable package out of a band would have had a fit when he suddenly decided to do an album of Brazilian style bossanova acoustic songs. Fortunately he owns his own record company so he could do it, and it was hit in Estonia. He's in complete control and his output is varied in nature but entirely superb in terms of songwriting quality. Not all musicians are desperate for fame. I respect him as an uncompromising artist, who sells plenty of records in his own country. If he'd happened to be British or American he'd be world famous for sure. But he is Estonian, and if he's happy with that then who is anyone to grumble at him? Good luck to him, he's hardly written a bad song in his life and I look forward to him experimenting and developing in whatever way pleases him.

@@RJPaul-px6vt estonias populaation is only ca million, if our little million population starts creating in english, its not much good for the english, but its a major loss for estonia. at least thats the conclusion eplik reached ca 2005 i think. so he mainly writes in estonian now. which is a shame in a way, for the international music community, because so many people will miss out on this little miracle called vaiko eplik, and all his merry co-creators in estonia, but a blessing for local estonians who get to hear great native language songs.

@@mjfan653 Thanks for your informative reply. I guess it is a dilemma for musicians whether to go international or not. I respect him for deciding to sing in Estonian. I listen to bands from all sorts of countries but at the end of the day if the music is great it doesn't matter if I can't understand the words! Your country fascinates me and I really look forward to visiting one day. Best wishes from Tokyo!

That manager was later busted for drugs and that contract was really beneficial for the manager as there was clauses that the band had to pay all of his airtravel for life.

Thanks i like that too and i am big Liverpool fan too!

I absolutely agree! Greetings from Germany.