Amadeus Lundberg, a 20-year-old gipsy singer has just won the 25th Tangomarkkinat, thus becoming the Tango King 2009.So, how did the evening progress? First each of the six finalist sung a classic tango. In general all did a great job with their songs. I wasn't so convinced with Amadeus and Marko which put me a bit in crisis.
The four remaining performed a "modern tango" or rather a tango adaption of a recent hit. They were announced one by one and had to draw an envelope to hear which song they were to sing.
First Kaija Lustila made a fantastic performance of Uniklubi's Näiden tähtien alla and made me add her to possible top-2 proving she can cross over to pop. Amadeus Lundberg then performed Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu's Rakkaus ei oo pysyvää. He is young and "unpolished diamond" as the jury said and I'm not sure if he can drop the tango singer's maneuvers. Still very interesting and pleasant version lacking the rage of Lauri Tähkä. Next finalist was Eerika Grönlund who performed Sen teen. That meant Virpi Piippo was out. I would have preferred her. Last but not least, Marko Maunuksela with bad flu performed Ville Pusa's Haaveet kaatuu dropping Markus Kokkonen from final. Now he was back on track proving he's better at pop than tango actually. I just can't help thinking he would have been fantastic doing Rakkaus ei oo pysyvää instead! Anyways he's back to my favourite to win.
Then we heard the runner up and winner of a new tango competition. last year's Tango King Jukka Hallikainen performed the runner up Yhdestoista hetki. Hanna Talikainen, last year's Tango Queen then performed the winning new tango, Häätango.
Then the jury announced the two singers in the final match. First they dropped Eerika Grönlund and then Marko Maunuksela who broke in tears :-(.
So in the final we have the veteran Kaija Lustila (43) and the baby of the contest, Amadeus Lundberg (20) who has also won all the online polls after Thursday's semifinal. Kaija has released 4 albums so far, first one back in 1992 while Amadeus has been singing the past 3 years in his father's band.
Jari Sillanpää, Tango King 1995 took the stage before the superfinal where both Kaija and Amadeus sung the same tango, Onnemme kyyneleet written by Mika Toivanen. I must say I preferred Amadeus's version.
The four remaining performed a "modern tango" or rather a tango adaption of a recent hit. They were announced one by one and had to draw an envelope to hear which song they were to sing.
First Kaija Lustila made a fantastic performance of Uniklubi's Näiden tähtien alla and made me add her to possible top-2 proving she can cross over to pop. Amadeus Lundberg then performed Lauri Tähkä & Elonkerjuu's Rakkaus ei oo pysyvää. He is young and "unpolished diamond" as the jury said and I'm not sure if he can drop the tango singer's maneuvers. Still very interesting and pleasant version lacking the rage of Lauri Tähkä. Next finalist was Eerika Grönlund who performed Sen teen. That meant Virpi Piippo was out. I would have preferred her. Last but not least, Marko Maunuksela with bad flu performed Ville Pusa's Haaveet kaatuu dropping Markus Kokkonen from final. Now he was back on track proving he's better at pop than tango actually. I just can't help thinking he would have been fantastic doing Rakkaus ei oo pysyvää instead! Anyways he's back to my favourite to win.
Then we heard the runner up and winner of a new tango competition. last year's Tango King Jukka Hallikainen performed the runner up Yhdestoista hetki. Hanna Talikainen, last year's Tango Queen then performed the winning new tango, Häätango.
Then the jury announced the two singers in the final match. First they dropped Eerika Grönlund and then Marko Maunuksela who broke in tears :-(.
So in the final we have the veteran Kaija Lustila (43) and the baby of the contest, Amadeus Lundberg (20) who has also won all the online polls after Thursday's semifinal. Kaija has released 4 albums so far, first one back in 1992 while Amadeus has been singing the past 3 years in his father's band.
Jari Sillanpää, Tango King 1995 took the stage before the superfinal where both Kaija and Amadeus sung the same tango, Onnemme kyyneleet written by Mika Toivanen. I must say I preferred Amadeus's version.
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You can see a making of video here:
http://satumaa.yle.fi/video/923