The most loved Finnish female singer, and twice Eurovision represent Katri Helena hits the road again to celebrate her 50th anniversary in the business. And on the top. Her career has been rather solid without any major ups and downs but she's been on top all the time. She's got 22 gold, platinum or double platinum discs decorating the walls of her home and the total sales are over 1,5 million albums in a country of five million. Besides Eurovision she has represented Finland in Rostock and Sopot music festivals as well as in Cannes. She has also performed in Japan, Sovjet Union, Estonia, France.... and won countless awards from the Female artist of the year to the Most positive person of the year. Last year she was one of the artists in the hugely popular Vain elämää reality TV-series, where artists live together for awhile and sing each other's songs. Even a musical has been made of her life, still running. Besides the tour it was recently announced she is writing a book to be released next year....
On the tour she will take a look back at her career from her first release Poikien kuvat in 1963 to her latest album Valon maa (2011). Of course her Eurovision entries Katson sineen taivaan (1979) and Tule luo (1993) are included.
October: 25 Askola, 26 Askola, 27 Viking Grace November: 1 Oulu, 2 Turku, 3 Tampere, 8 Kokkola, 9 Ylihärmä, 10 Helsinki, 15 Viitasaari, 16 Pori, 17 Lahti, 23 Imatra, 24 Jyväskylä 30 Kuopio *already sold out when writing this
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