Complex sentence: In 1999, some DJ friends of her brother's asked Elena Paparizou to make a demo of the Notis Sfakianakis hit "Opa Opa", but as the lyrics are for a man, she wished to sing with her childhood friend Nikos Panagiotidis, MAD TV.
Split into simpler sentences: In 1999, some DJ friends of her brother's asked her to make a demo of the Notis Sfakianakis hit "Opa Opa". Paparizou told them that the lyrics are for a man, so she asked to sing it with childhood friend Nikos Panagiotidis, MAD TV.