Finnish music

Matti Nykänen and Pia Nykänen at Linna’s social gathering in 2015. Ossi Ahola

Hill jumper Matti Nykänen loss of life in February 2019 was big information and a shock to many. Matti Nykänen, identified to the entire nation, was 55 years previous when he died. Right this moment 17.7. Nykänen would have celebrated his 61st birthday.

Widow Pia Nykänen recalled the well-known hill jumper in his Instagram replace.

– I might hug you if you happen to have been nearer. An extended technique to heaven. Within the evenings you shine like a star within the sky, that is the way you take away my age. Good luck in heaven for 61 years right this moment, Pia Nykänen writes in her replace.

Pia Nykänen has remembered Matti Nykä in her social media updates a number of occasions earlier than. Earlier in July, he shared, amongst different issues, a photograph of Matti Nykä with a gaggle of celebrities from the Suomi Pop festivals in Jyväskylä ten years in the past.

Every week in the past, Pia Nykänen remembered her beloved Matti with a joint photograph.

– You have been such a beautiful couple. You have been definitely the lady of Mati’s life, commented one follower.

Pia Nykänen has talked about her grief and her life after Mati’s loss of life in a number of newspaper interviews. In November 2023, Pia Nykänen instructed MTV After 5program, how Matti Nykänen couldn’t reside with out publicity.

– Evidently Matti didn’t know reside with out publicity. He hated publicity, however he wished it anyway. If it did not come, he did one thing to get to the slopes, he stated in this system.

Final winter, social media followers suspected that Pia Nykänen had discovered a brand new love, however the widow dismissed the love suspicions. Pia Nykänen has additionally overtly talked concerning the impolite feedback she obtained on social media.

– Raukka thinks he is a giant movie star when he occurred to be Mati’s final, however short-lived. And positively not a dream bride for Mati’s mom. Tyrkky, the eukko who financed Mati’s loss of life, an nameless individual wrote to Pia Nykäne.

Ville Köngäs, 24, competed on the Seinäjoki Tango market over the weekend. Antti Rekila

First-time participant of the tango market Ville Köngäs fortunately solutions his cellphone from Seinäjoki. The youngest participant of your entire competitors, a 24-year-old from Torni, has behind him a “loopy tango week”.

It is best to pack your issues and head again north.

– Completely superb feeling, Köngäs states.

The musician, who graduated from the Pop & Jazz conservatory Lapland final 12 months, has his first recollections of Tango market when he was 10 years previous. Her aunt participated within the competitors and her journey was adopted intently among the many household.

The primary reminiscence that vividly sticks in my thoughts is Teemu Roivainen’s reign from 2014.

– Large orchestra and the whole lot. It needed to be adopted and it has remained within the Tango market without end.

A part of the explanation for getting into the competitors is that Köngäs want to act as a task mannequin for a lot of visually impaired individuals and break down prejudices. Köngäs has been blind since delivery.

– A visible impairment isn’t an impediment to its success, and the northern location is only a setback, Köngäs laughs.

Köngäs beforehand thought of taking part within the tango competitors along with his fellow college students.

– This 12 months it felt prefer it may be the best time to take part. I put the qualifying video to play a bit within the spirit of experimenting to see how far we might go and the way far we might attain the finals, he says.

The singer’s journey within the competitors was not sufficient till the tremendous last.

– It wasn’t actually a disappointment. I did my greatest and it wasn’t sufficient this 12 months. The crown went to the best man, Köngäs commented.

– There was such a spark left from this 12 months. I feel that subsequent 12 months we’ll go full blast once more.

Within the competitors, he carried out a tango composed by Unto Mononen Stars over the ocean. Based on the singer, the music is a phenomenal love story.

– I’m admittedly an previous soul and a little bit of a romantic in my very own life.

Köngäs says that he obtained quite a lot of encouragement. Encouraging suggestions has come from the viewers, the jury and fellow singers. Based on the musician, tango persons are a really warm-hearted group.

– One even got here to speak and mentioned that he had come all the way in which from Rovaniemi to observe and cheer. I felt that Lapland is strongly concerned.

Köngäs says which you can really feel the presence of the viewers from the stage.

– I’ve realized to acknowledge reactions, when the viewers begins to heat up. You may’t actually describe it, however I can really feel how the viewers is concerned and its heat.

From the top of the summer time, he’ll take to the stage, amongst different issues, within the context of Meri-Lap pageant headline gigs. Within the fall, he’ll begin coaching in music manufacturing. The sector focuses on singing and producing music.

– Get the band collectively and go to gigs, Köngäs continues exhaustively along with his plans for the longer term.

Jonna Geagea, 46, and Erin Anttila will carry out in Helsinki this week. Nana Simelius

Nylon Beat, who loved tremendous reputation within the 90s, will return to the live performance phases this week on Friday. Erin Anttilan and Jonna Geagea’s Nylon Beat will carry out at Helsinki Metropolis Pageant’s Bolt-arena on Friday this week.

The gig is the band’s just one this summer time. In accordance with Iltalehti, the prize is the largest this summer time. Nylon Beat receives as a lot as 150,000 euros for one gig, which is a remarkably massive payment.

Nylon Beat made a breakthrough within the mid-90s and had a number of hits similar to I fell in love with a loser, Hundred mortgage, Final and Innocent.

Nylon Beat was energetic from 1995 to 2003. Three years later it carried out thrice, and Nylon Beat made an enormous comeback in 2018 by acting at a number of festivals.

Since then, the band has spent a quiet life. Erin has had a profitable profession as a solo artist, whereas Jonna graduated as a chef final month.

The efficiency is not going to essentially stay distinctive. In accordance with rumors in music circles, the band will go on tour after the summer time. Nevertheless, there is no such thing as a absolute certainty about this.

Different artists of the two-day pageant organized by Loud N’ Stay embody Haloo Helsinki! Deadmau5, Apulanta and Gettomasa.

Dingo is likely one of the performers of the Porilainen favorites live performance. Antti Nikkanen

Lovers of Pori rock are in for a deal with. In November, Porirock’s iconic Dingo, Yö, Mamba and Eve will take the identical stage collectively for the primary time.

The Pori residents’ favorites live performance will happen on November 30 in Pori.

The date has not been determined in a rush, there’s a sort of jubilee yr happening.

The yr 1984 was important within the historical past of rock from Pori.

– A dingo You and me blew up dwelling rooms by profitable Document board first in January and new music was launched at a fast tempo, in April an album was launched which has since offered gold My identify is Dingo and a single within the autumn of the identical yr Abandoned homebecause of which Dingo made his closing breakthrough, the discharge reminds.

In the identical yr, Mamba launched What about one damaged coronary heart album. Yö, however, had made his breakthrough a yr earlier, however was revealed in 1984 Tightrope walker-album solely accelerated the tempo.

Eve began a solo profession from Dingo in the identical yr. The next yr, he recorded an album bearing his personal identify.