Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Logomo in Turku was packed tonight when the semifinal of this spring's success Voice of Finland took place. Many familiar names from Euroviisut and UMK took part but only one made it so far: Saara Aalto . She's the only female among the final four after the results of the combined judge-spotify-televote results were announced. She will battle it out next Friday with Jesse Kaikuranta , Kim Koskinen  and Mikko Sipola .  This blogger is surprised to find himself supporting Jesse for the win after his outstanding original performances over the weeks. He's got his own look and thing going on and it's great he made it this far against all odds. Kim and Mikko are "working class" favorites against Saara's incredible sophisticated talent and Jesse's quiet originality. Can't wait to see how this ends! And one can only wonder how Nelonen or channel four makes this show so much better than this spring's other musical reality shows UMK and Idols. S...

The highly succesful reality format Voice of (insert country here) will start also in Finland this fall. It looks very promising as the couches will be Paula Koivuniemi, Michale Monroe, Lauri Tähkä and Elastinen. Axl Smith will be the host. The show is very simple; first the coaches only hear the singer, thus The Voice, and can decide if they want that voice in their team. They each pick up eight singers and coach them to reach their best. Duels drop artists and in the end there is only one voice left.... Sounds quite promising!