Finland: 12 artist names revealed for 2009
Jari Sillanpää was born in Ludvika in Sweden in 1965. He won the annual tango contest in Seinäjoki in 1995, after which he moved to Finland and had remarkable success. His first album from 1996 is the biggest selling Finnish recording in Finland ever. He was the runner-up in the Finnish national final in 1998 with Valkeaa unelmaa. The second time Jari took part in the Finnish selection was in 2004, when he won the final with Takes two to tango with 35,3 % of the votes. Jari was the first artist to ever perform in the new format two-day Eurovision in Istanbul in 2004. He scored 51 votes and got 14th place in the semi-final. Since his Eurovision performance he has had a successful tour with Katri Helena (Finland 1979 and 1993), released a greatest hits album and very publicly come out as gay. He released a new studio album in April 2008. He won the prestigious Iskelmä-Finlandia award in 2005.
Kwan is a hiphop/pop band fronted by lead vocalist Mariko. The band has so far recorded in English and their first album Padam was released in 2000. First two albums sold platimum and even the third one gold. Kwan’s fourth album, Little Notes was released in 2006 and has since been also released in Greece. It was produced by Pauli Rantasalmi, the guitarist for The Rasmus. The band has won two Emma Awards.
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Remu Aaltonen (born 1948 in Helsinki) is a real rock’n roll legend. He was the drummer in the 1970s band Hurriganes. He has been an active musician since the 1960s. Remu has recently collaborated with Popstars-favourite Tea Hiilloste.
C’mon c’mon video, (Tea feat. Remu)
Hurriganes performance in 1974
Sani (born in Hämeenlinna 1971) is best known as the lead singer of Aikakone, a very success dance music band who have been performing on and off since 1995. Aikakone took part in the Finnish national finals for Eurovision twice, and were the runner-up in 2002 (name shortened to Aika). Sani has released two solo albums, where she has been helped with ex-band members of Aikakone and songwriter and producer Maki Kolehmainen, who was also responsible for the Finnish entry in 2002, Addicted to you.
Official website
Aika at Euroviisut 2002 (YouTube)
Tapani Kansa (born 1949 in Hamina) is one of the longest running and most popular Finnish male solo artists. He started recording in 1967 and his first hit was a cover version of Delilah. He has had several records reaching gold and platinum sales. Ha has recorded over 500 songs and has recently completed a concert tour celebrating his 40 years as an artist. He has previously also taken part in the Finnish national finals for Eurovision with 12 songs and holds the record of most attempts without actually winning Euroviisut. His last attempt was in 1985.
Official website
Wikipedia page in English
Janita (born 1978 in Helsinki is a soul and r’n b artist. She already tried her luch with the Finnish selection in 1994. She has since continued her music career in New York.
Waldo’s People is a popular 90’s dance music act who are currently making their comeback
Passionworks makes melodic pop rock and have had some success even abroad
Riikka was previously with folk group Värttinä and tried as a solo artist in the Finnish national final in 2004 with Toarie. She also sang backing vocals to Jari Sillanpää in Istanbul in 2004.
Vink is a new pop rock band from Lohja
Signmark is a rapper doing hiphop in sign language
Tiara is a singer-songwriter from Rovaniemi and has had a couple of radio hits.
The hosts for the Finnish shows will be Jaana Pelkonen and Mikko “Peltsi” Peltonen as last year. The three semi-finals will be broadcast on three consecutive Fridays from the 9th January. The final will be held in Tampere on Saturday 31 January. Two artists will qualify from each semi directly by telephone and SMS votes, and the other six will get a second chance on the night of the final. Two more tickets will be given to those, who get the most televotes in the Second Chance round.
(esctoday.com)
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