People from Kauhajoki - Irina Saari, Heli Kruger, Jouko Salomki, VESA Hietalahti (Paperback)

Chapters: Irina Saari, Heli Kruger, Jouko Salomki, Vesa Hietalahti. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 17. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Irina (full name Irina Saari (ne Lahtinen), born 10 May 1975 in Kauhajoki) is a Finnish singer. Her style is pop and suomirock. She currently lives in Heinola. All of the songs on Irina's debut album were written by Toni Wirtanen of Apulanta except for the cover song Katujen kuningatar ("Queen of the Streets"). For some of the lyrics in the songs, she is noted as a co-writer. For her second album l riko kaavaa ("Don't Mess With the Formula"), Knipi and Ville Pusa contributed to the songwriting in addition to Wirtanen. Irina wrote all of the lyrics for her third album. In 2005, Irina received Emma awards for best new pop artist of the year and debut album of the year. Irina has mentioned that her favourite artists are Coldplay, Foo Fighters, Sting, Robbie Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Egotrippi and Sara. Before her first album, Irina was in the music business for about a decade. She toured for six years in a band called Playa, played both in rock bars and nightclubs and sang everything from Finnish pop to rock and soul. She was also a member of the so-called therapy band Redux. In August 2002, her friend Toni Wirtanen asked her to sing a song he wrote for a television series. The song was for the show Juulian totuudet ("Juulia's Truths"). After the project ended, Wirtanen and Irina decided to continue to work together and did the songs iden kruunu ("The Crown of the Nights") and Hiirenloukku ("Mousetrap"). In autumn of the same year, the songwriting continued and out of these songs came Irina's debut album. The performance of her first album was on 17 March 2005 in Lahti. The album, Vahva ("Strong"), came out on 22 March 2004 and it stayed i...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=17020398