Meiju Enho, born in 1981 in

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

, is the former

keyboard player A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instr ...

of the

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Viking Vikings ; non, víkingr is the modern name given to seafaring people originally from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway and Sweden), who from the late 8th to the late 11th centuries raided, pirated, traded and se ...

folk metal Folk metal is a fusion genre of heavy metal music and traditional folk music that developed in Europe during the 1990s. It is characterised by the widespread use of folk instruments and, to a lesser extent, traditional singing styles (for exampl ...

band

Ensiferum Ensiferum (Latin: , n adj., meaning "sword bearing") is a Finnish folk metal band from Helsinki. The members of the band label themselves as "melodic folk metal." History Formation, demos and ''Ensiferum'' (1995−2002) ''Ensiferum'' was founde ...

. Meiju joined the band in 2001 following the release of their debut album ''

'' and played on all subsequent releases until her departure in 2007. Meiju has also performed as a touring musician for

Finntroll Finntroll is a Finnish metal band from Helsinki that combines elements of black metal and folk metal. Finntroll's lyrics are mostly in Swedish, the only exception being the song "Madon Laulu" on ''Visor om slutet''. Finntroll's original singer, ...

, another Finnish folk metal band, when their regular keyboard player Trollhorn was unavailable. It was announced that Meiju had left the

on 10 September 2007, in a statement on the band's website. The official announcement read: Since 2012, Enho has been the composer, keyboardist, kantele player and lead singer for the Finnish alt/folk metal band Mamyth. In October 2020 joined with Norwegian singer

Liv Kristine Liv Kristine Espenæs (born 14 February 1976) is a Norwegian singer who has performed and composed songs mostly for various subgenres of heavy metal music. She started her career in the music industry as a vocalist for the gothic metal band Thea ...

to Finnish

Symphonic Death Metal Symphonic metal is a cross-generic style designation for the symphonic subsets of heavy metal music subgenres. It is used to denote any metal band that makes use of symphonic or orchestral elements. The style features the heavy drums and guitar ...

band Coldbound.Femme Metal Webzine
COLDBOUND – one man band turns into a real one with Liv Kristine, Markus Riihimäki and Meiju Enho
from 22. October 2020

References

External links

Official Ensiferum website
* https://archive.today/20140706175956/http://www.mamythmusik.com/mamythians * https://plus.google.com/116707950945669677981/posts 1981 births Living people Finnish heavy metal musicians Finnish keyboardists Heavy metal keyboardists Ensiferum members Women keyboardists Women in metal {{finland-musician-stub