Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

Jari Sillanpää has already launched his own sparkling wine and nasty thermometer for sauna but here comes something more dear to Finns: coffee! His own coffee brand is available as of today.

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's metamorphosis from a tango king to a pop singer has been a success. The pre-album single Malagaan was a hit on radio, and the follow up Tanssii kuin John Travolta is playing all the time as well. Besides that it launched his new nickname "Siltsu Bitch" (Siltsu coming from his surname). The album Rakkaudella merkitty mies went #2 in the charts and now he has also launched a video for Sinä ansaitset kultaa , a haunting break up story where he leaves his love free as he's being such a bitch and (s)he deserves better. Here's the touching  live version of it.