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Vain Elämää
''Vain elämää'' is the Finnish version of '' The Best Singers'' series broadcast on Finnish Nelonen commercial television channel fashioned on the successful Dutch series ''De beste zangers van Nederland''. Each day, one artist would be chosen, and the remaining artists would perform covers of her or his songs and would be assessed by the original artist. The last day would be dedicated to duets of the most popular performances. The title of the Finnish series is inspired by the 1973 song ''Vain elämää'' ( fi. "it's only life") by Irwin Goodman. Summary Season 1 (2012) The first Finnish edition started on 5 October 2012 and continued until 23 November 2012. The artists taking part were Erin, Kaija Koo, Katri Helena, Jonne Aaron, Cheek, Neumann and Jari Sillanpää. Many of the renditions during the series have charted on the Finnish Singles Chart and the self-titled compilation album has topped the Finnish Albums Chart. Performances Albums ''Vain elämää'' At the en ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nelonen
Nelonen () is a Finnish commercial television channel. It started out as Helsinki's local television channel PTV in 1990 on the HTV cable network (now part of DNA Welho), and changed its name first to PTV4. On June 1, 1997, the channel expanded to national coverage and changed its name to Nelonen, the Finnish name of the number four. Nelonen is mostly owned by Sanoma Corporation, which owns the ''Helsingin Sanomat'' and '' Ilta-Sanomat'' newspapers. Its largest owner was Aatos Erkko. Much of its programming is imported Australian, American, British, and European programs with Finnish captions. Its main market is the 25-44 demographic. Programming Finnish series and shows *''Extreme Duudsonit'' *''Haluatko miljonääriksi?'' *''Mysteerilaulajat'' *'' Reikä seinässä'' *''Talent Suomi'' *''The Voice of Finland'' *''Vain elämää'' *'' Koskinen'' Imported series, telenovelas and animated shows *'' 90210'' *'' Accidentally on Purpose'' *''Alias'' *''All in the Family'' *''Am ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juha Tapio
Juha Leevi Antero Tapio (born 5 February 1974) is a Finnish singer, lyricist, composer and guitarist. His album ''Mitä silmät ei nää'' (2003) sold gold and the album ''Kaunis ihminen'' (2006) reached platinum. He is married to Raija Mattila, and together they have two sons, Mikael and Akseli. Tapio won the Best Male Vocalist Emma Award in 2008. Discography Albums Studio albums Compilation albums Singles References External linksOfficial site {{DEFAULTSORT:Tapio, Juha 1974 births Living people People from Vaasa Finnish songwriters Folk-pop singers Finnish pop singers 20th-century Finnish male singers 21st-century Finnish male singers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
VilleGalle
JVG (formerly known as Jare & VilleGalle) is a Finnish rap duo made up of Jare Joakim Brand (born 8 October 1987) and Ville-Petteri Galle (born 4 October 1987). Their style is often referred to as sport rap. Both Jare and Ville are passionate athletes and originally became famous for their unique and comical sports-themed songs, where they rapped about ice hockey, soccer, doping, Finnish sportspeople (such as Jari Litmanen and Teemu Selänne), snus and playing NHL video games. In 2020, during the COVID-19 pandemic, JVG held a virtual reality concert on the first of May in a simulated version of Helsinki, with estimated attendance somewhere from 700,000 to over 1,000,000. Discography Albums Singles Featured in VilleGalle was also featured in on: *2008: "Katkerat savut" by Hulabaloo (''Sirkusteltta'' album) *2009: "Siivoo suu poika" by Juno (''Kettoteippi'' album) *2009: "Raybanit" by Juno (''Kettoteippi'' album, also featuring ink) *2010: "Kuka on lämmittäny mun uunii?" ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maija Vilkkumaa
Maija Johanna Vilkkumaa (born 9 November 1973) is a Finnish pop rock singer-songwriter. Beginning her musical hobbies playing piano at an age before school, Vilkkumaa studied in high school where she and her friends set up the band Tarharyhmä in 1990, which broke up in 1995. While studying Finnish language at the University of Helsinki, she started to take singing lessons and went on to start her solo career in 1999. During her solo career from 1999 to 2011, Vilkkumaa has released eight full-length solo albums and sold over 300,000 certified records, becoming the tenth-best-selling female soloist in Finland. Along with meeting commercial success, the singer—who writes and composes the songs by herself—has also been credited for her songwriting skills by receiving the Juha Vainio Award. She has also received five Emma Awards, accolades for outstanding achievements in music, awarded by the Finnish music industry federation, Musiikkituottajat, and five E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anssi Kela
Anssi Kela (born 29 July 1972 in Kerava, Finland) is a Finnish singer-songwriter multi-instrumentalist who has published six albums. During his career, Kela has sold over 230,000 records in Finland. He received four Emma awards in 2002. Anssi Kela comes from a musical family. His late father was a keyboardist and songwriter in a gospel band called Pro Fide, his mother is a cantor and brother a drummer. Kela began his musical career playing various stringed instruments, including the violin, cello and contrabass. However he was more interested in rock music, and wanted to play bass instead. At the age of 13 in 1985 Kela formed a gospel band Yhdeksäs hetki with his school mates. In the band he played bass and wrote the songs. After the band gave up gospel music and changed their name to Pekka ja susi. Kela started to sing in the band as well as playing bass. In 1993 the band won the contest "Finnish Rock champion" and got a record deal with BMG. Their only album in 1994 was a flop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Virve Rosti
Virve Hannele "Vicky" Rosti (born 10 November 1958, Helsinki, Finland) is a Finnish singer of popular music. Her most famous songs include "Kun Chicago kuoli" (the debut single from 1975, a Finnish language cover version of " The Night Chicago Died" by Paper Lace), "Tuolta saapuu Charlie Brown" ("Charlie Brown" by Benito di Paula), "Menolippu" (" One Way Ticket"), "Oon voimissain" ("I Will Survive"), "Tunnen sen täysillä taas" ("Total Eclipse of the Heart"), "Sata salamaa" (''One hundred lightnings'') and " Jolene". During her career, Rosti has sold over 75,000 certified records, which places her among the top 50 best-selling female soloists in Finland. Rosti represented her home country in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987 in Belgium. She sang "Sata salamaa", composed by Petri Laaksonen. The song finished 15th out of 22, scoring 28 points. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antti Tuisku
Antti Tuisku (born 27 February 1984) is a Finnish pop singer. He finished third in the 2003 '' Idols'' talent show, the Finnish version of ''Pop Idol''. Tuisku has sold over 300,000 records during his career in Finland. In 2016, Tuisku won the Best Male Artist 2015 award at Emma-gaala. His 2016 album ''En kommentoi'' received the Record of the Year and Best Pop Album of the Year awards. Career ''En kommentoi'' Tuisku's 10th album ''En kommentoi'' was released in May 2015. The album spent nine weeks at number one on the Official Finnish Album Chart. After the success of the album he embarked on the ''Peto on irti'' tour. In April 2016 he sold out two concerts at Hartwall Arena in Helsinki. The two concerts gathered together over 22 000 fans. Other ventures Tuisku appeared in the film ''Joulutarina'' in 2007. He has also voiced Arthur in the movie ''Shrek the Third''. In 2010 Tuisku won the Finnish version of ''Dancing with the Stars''. He participated in the ''Vain elämä ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toni Wirtanen
Toni Juhana Wirtanen (born 4 April 1975, in Heinola, Finland) is a Finnish musician, best known as the vocalist, guitarist and songwriter for the rock band Apulanta. Wirtanen is also known for having written numerous songs for the Finnish pop singer Irina, and appeared in the 1999 movie '' Pitkä kuuma kesä'', portraying the lead-singer of the school band The Vittupäät. He holds the rank of a Corporal in the Finnish Army. Discography ;Charting hits featured in *2003: "Dynamite" (Beats And Styles featuring Toni W & B.O. Dubb) (Peaked in FIN: #2) *2003: "Asvaltti" (Toni Wirtanen, Infekto, Leijonanmieli, Paarma, Nopsajalka, Bommitommi) (Peaked in FIN: #8) *2014: "Hätähuuto" ( |
Samuli Edelmann
Samuli Casimir Edelmann (born 21 July 1968) is a Finnish actor and singer. Family and career Edelmann was born in Pori, Finland, the son of actress Marja-Leena Kouki and composer Toni Edelmann. Edelmann has two children with his wife, Laura Tuomarila. In the spring of 2006 Samuli Edelmann and his family moved to Malta, and in the late of 2015 Edelmann and his family moved back to Finland. Actor Edelmann graduated from the Theatre Academy of Finland in 1991. Before he graduated, he had already acted in the three movies: ''Talvisota'' and two ''Vääpeli Körmy'' movies. His role of Vähy in the movie ''Veturimiehet heiluttaa'' in 1992, however, was what shot him to fame. Some of his other well-known roles include Patrick in ''Romanovin kivet'' (1993), Jussi Murikka in ''Häjyt'' (1999), Roope in ''Levottomat'' (2000), Aki in ''Minä ja Morrison'' (2001) and Tomppa in ''Rööperi''. In addition to movies, he has also acted in the TV series ''Vintiöt'' and ''Irtiottoja''. He ha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elastinen
Kimmo Ilpo Juhani Laiho (born 1981), better known by his stage name Elastinen (meaning ''elastic'' in Finnish), is a Finnish rap musician and also known as one of the founders and is the CEO of the Finnish independent rap label Rähinä Records. Together with his colleague Iso H (Big H), he founded the Finnish rap duo Fintelligens. He has also released five solo albums. Biography Beginnings Born and raised in Helsinki, Elastinen began taking guitar lessons when he was seven years old. At the age of 11 he started dancing and has been a member of famous break-dance groups as IMC and Savage Feet. Inspired by a hiphop-cassette, given by his elder-brother, "Ela" wrote his first rap-lyrics when he was 15. He joined an anti-racist musical "Colorblind" and met Iso H. In Fintelligens In summer 1997, Elastinen and Iso H founded Fintelligens. Elastinen was only 18 when they got their first record-deal. Ela graduated from Sibelius Academy, a music school in 2000. Same year Fintelligen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Koivuniemi
Paula Kristiina Koivuniemi (born 19 June 1947) is a Finnish singer who started her singing career in the 1960s. Koivuniemi released her first hit single "Perhonen" (''Butterfly'') in 1966. In the 1970s her career was in decline, but during the 1980s she had many hit singles in Finland – she received nine gold albums and one diamond album. During her career, Koivuniemi has sold over 345,000 certified records, which places her among the top 30 of best-selling soloists and top six of the best-selling female soloists in Finland. Discography Albums * Leikki riittää (1975 – The Game is Enough) * Paula Koivuniemi (1977) * Sinulle vain (1978 – Just for You) * Lady Sentimental (1978) * Vie minut pois (1980 – Take Me Away) * Sata kesää, tuhat yötä (1981 – Hundred Summers, Thousand Nights) * Luotan sydämen ääneen (1982 – I Trust in the Heart's Voice) * Lähdetään (1983 – Let's Go) * Rakkaustarina (1984 – Love Story) * Ilman minua (1986 – Without Me ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paula Vesala
Paula Julia Vesala (born December 10, 1981) is a Finnish singer-songwriter, actress, and playwright. She was one of two singers and main lyricist in the pop rock duo PMMP along with Mira Luoti. Her solo career began in 2015 under the stage name "Vesala". She has composed songs for other well-known Finnish artists such as Vesa-Matti Loiri, Jenni Vartiainen, and Antti Tuisku. Career Education Vesala attended the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki, where she studied music education and classical singing as well as the piano and violin."Biografia: Paula Vesala", PMMP.fi. (luettu 22.6.2007) Since 2011, she has studied dramaturgy at the Helsinki Theatre Academy and later at University of California, Los Angeles. Her 10-minute play "English Lesson" was chosen among seven others as one of the best in the national Theater Masters 10-minute playwr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
