Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision

  After a month's break it's time to relaunch your #Finpop 2025 doses. We kick of with Behm dueting with Ahti (she's in charts also dueting with Kuumaa's Johannes covering Käärijä, read more here ), along with other collaboration with Mellas and Sana. I have already featured Sana as well as Runo in this series. And then we have Louie Blue who's tipped for UMK 2026 even by other than this blogger as I have tipped for a couple of years already. We'll see.  AHTI / Behm - Tähdet Runo - Jumala armahtaa Louie Blue - Alone in my world MELLAS  / Sana -  Rakastaa

The ultimate tango king Jari Sillanpää is set to conquer the pop market when he releases his new album Rakkaudella merkitty mies - his first studio one in three years - on September 26, 2014. The first single Malagaan is already out. The album features some young and popular song writers being more pop oriented than any of his previous albums after the recent success with playing with various music styles from opera to reggae, heavy and pop. About this new single he says he first thought it was just too corny and he coudn't possibly record it. After listening to it a couple of days he thought it was amusing and he just had to do it. Indeed it's kinda silly.... yet, it somehow works. Jari Sillanpää has managed to stay on top since his victory in Tangomarkkinat 1995 and his defeat in Eurovision 2004 or coming out in 2006 hasn't changed his status one bit. He has always been adored by elderly women in particular and now he may be crossing over to younger generations - ha...