Welcome to my blog

This is where I’ll share my thoughts with you about music, song writing, life, love, travelling, good books, and other subjects. I thought I’d start chronologically, by telling you a little bit about myself, and how I got into music in the first place.

I grew up in a cute little town by the sea in the South of Finland. When I was two years old, my mother and grandmother took me to a folk dance festival in a nearby village. There a big group of musicians played schottische and polska the whole day, while folk-dancers, dressed in traditional clothes, danced for hours. I so enjoyed the music, and violin has been my favourite instrument ever since.

Some months after we had attended the festival for the first time, my mum heard me singing one of the folk music tunes we heard that day by heart. She was surprised that I could still remember it, and reckoned I had to be musical. After this she always had me singing on family gatherings.

Me singing on my grandmother’s birthday. I was so shy, I used to hide behind my mother’s back or my grandmother’s bathrobe.

Once I was old enough I started music school, and at the age of eleven I began studying classical singing. My dream of playing the violin did not come true at this point. My father did give me a violin shaped plank of wood with nylon strings on it for Christmas, but you couldn’t really play on it.

I picked up the idea again as an adult, however, and started taking lessons. It may not sound all that pretty (yet), but it gives me a lot of pleasure to try to play those old folk tunes. And who knows – perhaps I’ll be a wicked player by the time I’m 50! (: