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JARI SILLANPÄÄ'S 50TH BIRTHDAY - AT THE OLYMPIC STADIUM

Happened earlier this summer: Jari Sillanpää turned 50 and invited his closest 40.000 friends to celebrate the event in the Helsinki Olympic Stadium along with Laura Voutilainen, Waltteri Torikka and Marita Taavitsainen. The 72 meters wide stage - as many meters as the height of the stadium's tower btw - was filled with grand orchestra, some 50 dancers and 850 people worked during the concert to make it all work out fine during the 35 songs he performed. And before the concert each and every one was served coffee and birthday cake in the stadium - the cake being of course the biggest ever made in Finland needing not one but two trucks to bring it in...... Besides turning 50, having this stadium concert he also made headlines in the press for his love affairs. First he said he has found a new love and trying for the first time a foreign affair or romance in distance. Thenin the concert he declared he's actually single - yet spent the rest of the night in a company a tall...

JARI SILLANPÄÄ TO CELEBRATE 5OTH BIRTHDAY IN OLYMPIC STADIUM

Jari Sillanpää will become the second Finnish solo artist to fill up Helsinki Olympic Stadium ( Cheek being the first one last summer) in occasion of his 50th birthday on August 16, and 20th anniversary in the business after winning the title of Tango King in Tangomarkkinat 1995. He has been on top ever since and at the moment living careerwise one of the highlights; his latest album has given him real radiohits ( Sinä ansaitset kultaa for example) and the album has sold platinum. He won Syksyn Säve l 2011, and then Tähdet, tähdet variety tv-series... He was also one of the artists in the first season of Vain elämää in 2012. That started his move to more pop oriented material and its paying off big time. Right now he's also nominated for several Emma awards aka the Finnish Grammys. Over the years he has released 15 albums (incl. compilations etc) and won countless awards. Time to break some records and make history again? After all, it takes 40.000 to tango !