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Lose Control (Waldo's People Song)
Finland participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 with the song "Lose Control" written by Waldo, Karima, Ari Lehtonen and Annie Kratz-Gutå. The song was performed by the band Waldo's People. The Finnish broadcaster Yleisradio (Yle) organised the national final ''Euroviisut 2009'' in order to select the Finnish entry for the 2009 contest in Moscow, Russia. 12 entries were selected to compete in the national final, which consisted of three semi-finals, a Second Chance round and a final, taking place in January 2009. Eight entries ultimately competed in the final on 30 January where votes from the public selected "Lose Control" performed by Waldo's People as the winner. Finland was drawn to compete in the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest which took place on 12 May 2009. Performing during the show in position 15, "Lose Control" was announced among the ten qualifying entries of the first semi-final and therefore qualified to compete in the final on 16 May. It was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Waldo's People
Waldo's People is a Finland, Finnish Eurodance band. The lead singer of the band is Waldo (musician), Waldo, whose real name is Marko Reijonen. They represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, with the song "Lose Control (Waldo's People song), Lose Control". It won a place for the Eurovision final on May 16 as the jury's chosen act. They finished in last place out of 25 entries with 22 points. Waldo already had some success in a solo-career in mid-1990s. His band influenced Finnish electronic dance music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Waldo's People's first video was ''U Drive Me Crazy (Waldo's People song), U Drive Me Crazy''. It was the first Finnish video included in MTV Nordic's daily video-rotation. Discography Albums Compilations Singles Notes External links * Finnish Eurodance groups Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Finland Eurovision Song Contest entrants of 2009 {{Finland-band-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jari Sillanpää
Jari Veikko Sillanpää (; born 16 August 1965) is a Finnish-Swedish singer. With over 820,000 records sold, he is the fifth-best-selling music artist and second-best-selling solo artist in Finland. Life and career Born into a Sweden-Finnish family, Sillanpää spent his childhood in Sweden. His mother was one of the tens of thousands Finnish children who were evacuated to Sweden during World War II. Sillanpää's maternal great-grandfather, Potif Afanasief, and great-grandmother were Russians. Sillanpää moved to Finland in the mid-1990s. He gained fame after winning the Seinäjoki Tangomarkkinat tango contest in 1995. Sillanpää's 1996 debut album ''Jari Sillanpää'' is the best-selling album of all time in Finland, with over 270,000 copies sold. In 1998, Sillanpää was awarded the Male Soloist of the Year Emma award. Sillanpää represented Finland in Eurovision Song Contest 2004 and his song "Takes 2 to Tango Finland participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Four (Eurovision)
The Eurovision Song Contest (), sometimes abbreviated to ESC and often known simply as Eurovision, is an international songwriting competition organised annually by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), featuring participants representing primarily European countries. Each participating country submits an original song to be performed on live television and Live radio, radio, transmitted to national broadcasters via the EBU's Eurovision (network), Eurovision and Euroradio networks, with competing countries then casting votes for the other countries' songs to determine a winner. Based on the Sanremo Music Festival held in Italy since 1951, Eurovision has been held annually since 1956 (apart from ), making it the longest-running annual international televised music competition and one of the world's longest-running television programmes. Active members of the EBU, as well as invited associate members, are eligible to compete, and List of countries in the Eurovision Song Contest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Northern Kings
Northern Kings is a Finnish symphonic metal cover band, cover supergroup, made up of four well known musicians: Jarkko Ahola from Teräsbetoni, ex-Dreamtale, Marko Hietala from Tarot (band), Tarot, ex-Nightwish, Tony Kakko from Sonata Arctica and Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto from Charon (band), Charon and Harmaja (band), Harmaja. Their first single, "We Don't Need Another Hero" (originally performed by Tina Turner), was released in 2007, followed by their debut album ''Reborn (Northern Kings album), Reborn''. In late 2008, their second album ''Rethroned'' was released, headlined by the single "Kiss from a Rose" (originally performed by Seal (musician), Seal). They last released a single "Lapponia (song), Lapponia" in 2010. On 18 June 2022, Northern Kings made a comeback after being on hiatus for 12 years. The band performed at the 'Tuhdimmat Tahdit festival' in Nokia, Finland. Discography Albums *''Reborn (Northern Kings album), Reborn'' (2007) *''Rethroned'' (2008) Singles * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yle Fem
Yle Fem (''Yle Five'') was Yle's Finland-Swedish national television channel, providing television programmes in the Swedish language in Finland. It was a public-service channel principally intended for Finland's Swedish-speaking minority. Creating understanding over the language and culture border was also one of the channel's recognized objectives. History Yle Fem was launched in 1988 as a late-evening programming block called FST (Finlands Svenska Television, literally ''"Finland's Swedish Television"'') which was broadcast on Monday nights on Yle TV2 and on Tuesday nights on Yle TV1, after the conclusion of MTV3's Kymmenen Uutiset (10pm evening news) on either channel. It was relaunched as its own dedicated channel called YLE FST on 27 August 2001, and was called YLE FST5 from 2006 to 2012 but the name was changed because the viewers thought the name was only a combination of letters (Fem is Swedish for five.). Initially, Finlands Svenska Television's output was formerly inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population of 341,696; and the metropolitan area, also known as the Tampere sub-region, has a population of 393,941 in an area of . Tampere is the second-largest urban area and third most-populous individual municipality in Finland, after the cities of Helsinki and Espoo, and the most populous Finnish city outside the Greater Helsinki area. Today, Tampere is one of the major urban, economic, and cultural hubs in the whole inland region. Tampere and its environs belong to the historical province of Satakunta. The area belonged to the Häme Province from 1831 to 1997, and over time it has often been considered to belong to Tavastia as a province. For example, in '' Uusi tietosanakirja'' published in the 1960s, the Tampere sub-region is presented as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tapani Kansa
Aarne Tapani Kansa (born 9 March 1949 in Hamina, Finland) is a Finnish singer. Career Tapani Kansa made his first record deal in 1967 and had a breakthrough the next year, with his version of the hit song ''Delilah'', translated into Finnish. Tapani Kansa had established a career in singing at a very young age. He had started studying singing in the Kotka music academy in the middle 1960s. His colourful performance style brought him much work on television. His early hit songs include ''Kuljen taas kotiinpäin'' ("I am walking home again"), ''Eloise'' and ''Käymme yhdessä ain'' ("We will always go together"). In 1976, Tapani Kansa achieved great success with his songs ''R-A-K-A-S'' ("D-E-A-R"), ''Hafanana'' and ''Melina''. The next year he released the album ''Mistä rakkaus alkoi'' ("Where did the love start"), which presented a more pop music style Tapani Kansa: The album contains a Finnish version of Elton John's song ''Sorry Seems To Be The Hardest Word'' - in Finnish ''Ant ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Signmark
Marko Vilhelm Vuoriheimo (born 26 June 1978 in Helsinki), professionally known as Signmark, is a deaf Finnish rap artist. He describes his music as being party hip hop that takes a stand. Born into a signing family, Vuoriheimo feels that society should not treat the deaf as disabled people but as a linguistic minority with their own culture and history. Biography Although it was only in 2004 that Vuoriheimo started creating his own music, he has signed poetry and music since he was a child. Christmas carols were some of the first music he learned to sigWhen performing, he rhymes signs by ensuring that they have the same types of hand forms and signs. The bass line is important for him, as it helps him follow the music and time his rhymes. His facial expressions reinforce the signs, while improvisation is an essential part of the overall package. His debut album, '' Signmark (album), Signmark'' was released on 29 November 2006. The album included the soundtrack on CD and signed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Risto Asikainen
Risto Asikainen (born 20 August 1958, Nurmijärvi) is a Finnish record producer, songwriter and musician. He became known to the general public from the Finnish version of the reality television show "Popstars". In the show he appeared as a judge and also wrote and produced music for the Popstars bands. In Finland, Asikainen has worked behind numerous successful pop-artists and bands, such as Nylon Beat, S.E.S., Kaija Koo, Dingo, Arja Koriseva, Kari Tapio, Gimmel and Robin. Asikainen is signed as a writer to Elements Music Elements Music is an independent music publishing and producer management company based in Helsinki, Finland. Elements Music has had a multitude of number one albums and singles domestically as well as internationally and has been awarded the "Mus .... References 1958 births Living people Finnish songwriters {{Finland-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Remu Aaltonen
Henry Olavi "Remu" Aaltonen (born 10 January 1948) is a Finnish drummer and singer. He is the lead musician of the band Hurriganes, but has also pursued a solo singing career. Aaltonen was born in Helsinki. He was the oldest child in a family of seven siblings and one foster child. He is of Romani descent. For a while the family lived in an abandoned train car near the construction of the Helsinki Airport. The family's father was not always around, and the mother sold moonshine Moonshine is high-proof liquor that is usually produced illegally. The name was derived from a tradition of creating the alcohol during the nighttime, thereby avoiding detection. In the first decades of the 21st century, commercial dist ... to support them. Aaltonen was 16 years old and already playing in various bands when he received his first prison sentence for burglaries and other property crimes in 1964. He has also received convictions for drug possession. In 1974, Hurriganes had to pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mari Pajalahti
Mari Liisa Pajalahti (born 15 March 1979), also known by her stage name MC Mariko, is one of two lead singers of hip-hop music group Kwan. She has also acted in a Finnish TV soap opera called ''Salatut elämät'' in the role of Virpi Hurme from 1999 to 2000. In addition, she has played the lead role in the musical ''Dakota''. In 2007, Mariko was chosen to dance in season two of the Finnish version of ''Dancing with the Stars ''Dancing with the Stars'' is the name of various international television series based on the format of the British TV series '' Strictly Come Dancing'', which is distributed by BBC Studios, the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the forma ...'' ('' Tanssii tähtien kanssa''). Together with her partner , she went on to win the entire competition on 22 April 2007. References External links * 1979 births Living people Finnish actresses 21st-century Finnish women singers Dancing with the Stars winners {{Finland-singer-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jaani Peuhu
Jaani Peuhu (born 17 August 1978) is a Finnish musician, producer and songwriter. He is the founder and lead vocalist of the Finnish band Iconcrash and currently working with his debut solo album. He currently resides in Helsinki. Background Peuhu was born in Anjalankoski to a jazz musician father, Kari Peuhu, and a photographer mother, Heli Ahoniitty. At the age of seven, he began his musical career when he started playing the piano; one year later he learned to play the drums. At the age of 13 he formed his first band Chaoslord. He played his first show in Ruovesi one year later at the age of 14. Peuhu has played drums in several bands including Scarlet Youth, Varjo, Deadbabes, Myyt, Mary-Ann, Billy-Goats, Jalankulkuämpäri, Kinetic and Vuk. Jaani started his solo career in 2004, when he created his first record as a singer/songwriter under the name Iconcrash. Jaani has also worked in the studio as a producer or guest musician with artists like Before the Dawn (band), Swal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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