Emmi
is a
Finnish
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* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
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singer-songwriter who sings in English. She was born on October 10, 1979 in
Vilppula
Vilppula was a former municipality of Finland. Neighbouring Mänttä was merged into it on 1 January 2009 to form the municipality of Mänttä-Vilppula. The municipality was unilingually Finnish.
It was located in the province of Western Finlan ...
,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
. She became famous thanks to her single ''Breakable'',
which was released in February 2001. In May 2001 her second single ''Crashing Down'' and her debut album ''Solitary Motions'' were released. Two other quite well known songs from that album are ''Green Car'' and ''Solitary Motions''. She was nominated as the Best Nordic Act by MTV Europe Music Awards in 2001. However, the award was won by the Danish band
Safri Duo
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.
There are two versions of Emmi's second album ''No Nothing''. The first one was released only for Finnish market in October 2002. The second one was released for international as well as Finnish market in early 2003. The differences between the versions are the order of songs and the fact that the second version contains two tracks that are not contained in the first version, namely ''Into The World'' and ''World Is Crazy''. Conversely, the song ''Toss Me Down'' is contained in the first version but not in the second one.
The single ''Eileen'' was released in 2005. On October 5, 2005, Emmi's third album ''Can Full of Joy'' was released.
References
External links
The official site of Emmi(in Finnish only)
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1979 births
Living people
People from Mänttä-Vilppula
21st-century Finnish women singers
Finnish pop singers
Finnish songwriters