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Jenni Vartiainen warps it up

Jenni Vartiainen's Seili tour comes to an end after 170 gigs when tomorrow night she will perform in Helsinki's National Theatre's stage, a first for a pop artist! And not only, Finnkino's movie theatres all over Finland will show the performance live in Helsinki, Espoo, Vantaa, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Lahti, Oulu, Pori, Rovaniemi, Turku and Tampere. After that she will take a break and no one knows how long it will take, not even herself. That has caused wild speculation that she might be pregnant or might quit the business altogether and she has recently commented herself that she also took two years off before the album and it's normal; first time off, then slowly making new music and recording, it could easily take a few years.... But there goes hopes to have her in Eurovision 2012 as well. Time will tell if this success story will continue in a few years as so far it has been impressive: Jenni was born in Kuopio in 1983. After figure skating that she had to quit be...

Euroviisut 2011: Jonna

Jonna (28) came to the spotlight in 2002 when she was one of the girls selected to a girlband created by a reality show. Gimmel was born but Jonna left the band after a month and went solo. ( Jenni Vartiainen was one of the other Gimmel girls, btw and PMMP girls met during the show, too). Her career took off quite nicely and her debut album went to #7 but then the progress has been downhill: the follow up went to #27 and the third one #32. After that she went to the States for awhile, got married and divorced and is now ready for a comeback, in English. Jonna has released three albums and 11 singles so far. Her website says she will release her first single in English in January 2011 so one can quite safely suspect her Euroviisut entry will be in English instead Finnish she has been singing so far. Her hits include Jäässä , Sateen jälkeen   and Tyytyväinen . She has also dueted with Darin in Explain and she has also collaborated with Cheek . Jonna is one of the artists/songs YL...