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Ihmisten Edessä
''Ihmisten edessä'' () is the debut studio album by Finland, Finnish Pop music, pop singer, Jenni Vartiainen. The Finnish language, Finnish-language album was released digitally on 5 September 2007, with the physical release following on 12 September. The album was produced by Jukka Immonen. Well received by music critics who complimented the album for nuanced vocals, interpretation and mixing of several musical styles such as Electro (music), electro and funk, the album debuted at number eight on the Finnish Albums Chart. It peaked at number six in mid-April 2008 and charted for 35 weeks. To date, the album has sold over 65,000 copies in Finland. Critical reception ''Ihmisten edessä'' was well received by music critics, as most of the reviewers complimented the audacious use of musical elements and styles and Vartiainen's nuanced vocals and interpretation. The critics also noted Vartiainen's stylistic departure from her previous pop band Gimmel (band), Gimmel. Writi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenni Vartiainen
Jenni Mari Vartiainen (born 20 March 1983) is a Finnish pop singer. Before her professional musical endeavours, she was a figure skating, figure skater in her teenage years and attended the Kuopio Senior High of Music and Dance. Vartiainen rose to publicity by winning the Finnish talent show ''Popstars#Europe, Popstars'' in October 2002 with Susanna Korvala, Ushma Karnani (currently Olava) and Jonna Pirinen. The four formed the band Gimmel (band), Gimmel that released three studio albums, sold over 160,000 records and received three Emma-gaala, Emma Awards, accolades for outstanding achievements in music, awarded by the Finnish music industry federation, Musiikkituottajat – IFPI Finland, Musiikkituottajat. The band broke up in October 2004. After Gimmel, Vartiainen launched her solo career, releasing her debut single "Tunnoton" in April 2007. In September of the same year, the single was followed by her debut album ''Ihmisten edessä'', which peaked at number six on the Fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electro (music)
Electro (also known as electro-funk, and sometimes referred to as electro-pop) Globaldarkness.com. Retrieved on July 18, 2011. is a genre of electronic dance music that emerged in the early 1980s. It is defined by the prominent use of the Roland TR-808 drum machine, and draws direct influence from early hip hop and funk music. Electro music is typically characterized by synthetic beats, robotic textures, and minimal or electronically processed vocals—often delivered through vocoders or talkboxes. Unlike its boogie predecessor, which emphasized vocal elements, electro focused more on rhythm and machine-generated sound. The genre arose as the popularity of disco waned in the U.S., blending funk and early hip hop elements with influences from New York's boogie scene and electronic pop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Massive Attack
Massive Attack are an English trip hop collective formed in 1988 in Bristol, England, by Robert Del Naja, Robert "3D" Del Naja, Daddy G, Grant "Daddy G" Marshall, Tricky (musician), Adrian "Tricky" Thaws and Andrew Vowles, Andrew "Mushroom" Vowles. The group currently consists of Del Naja and Marshall. They released their debut album in 1991, ''Blue Lines,'' which has been included on numerous best-of lists and is generally considered the first album of the 'trip-hop' genre. The single "Unfinished Sympathy" was a chart hit in Europe, including number one on the Dutch Top 40, and was later voted the 63rd-greatest song of all time in a poll by ''NME''. In 1994, they released their second album, Protection (Massive Attack album), ''Protection''. Thaws left the band later that year to pursue a solo career. In 1998, they released their third album, ''Mezzanine (album), Mezzanine'', giving them their first number one on the UK Albums Chart. ''Mezzanine'' also contains the top-10 si ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Banjo
The banjo is a stringed instrument with a thin membrane stretched over a frame or cavity to form a resonator. The membrane is typically circular, and in modern forms is usually made of plastic, where early membranes were made of animal skin. Early forms of the instrument were fashioned by African Americans and had African antecedents. In the 19th century, interest in the instrument was spread across the United States and United Kingdom by traveling shows of the 19th-century minstrel show fad, followed by mass production and mail-order sales, including instructional books. The inexpensive or home-made banjo remained part of rural folk culture, but five-string and four-string banjos also became popular for home parlor music entertainment, college music clubs, and early 20th century jazz bands. By the early 20th century, the banjo was most frequently associated with folk, cowboy music, and country music. By mid-century it had come to be strongly associated with bluegrass. Eventu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lounge Music
Lounge music is a type of easy listening music popular in the 1950s and 1960s. It may be meant to evoke in the listeners the feeling of being in a place, usually with a tranquil theme, such as a jungle, an island paradise or outer space. The range of lounge music encompasses beautiful music–influenced instrumentals, modern electronica (with chillout and downtempo influences), while remaining thematically focused on its retro–space age cultural elements. The earliest type of lounge music appeared during the 1920s and 1930s, and was known as light music. Retrospective usage Exotica, space age pop, and some forms of easy listening music popular during the 1950s and 1960s are now broadly termed "lounge". The term "lounge" does not appear in textual documentation of the period, such as '' Billboard'' magazine or long playing album covers, but has been retroactively applied. While rock and roll was generally influenced by blues and country, lounge music was derived from jaz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Soul II Soul
Soul II Soul are a British musical collective formed in London in 1988. They are best known for their two major hits; 1989's UK number five and US number eleven " Keep On Movin'", and its follow-up, the UK number one and US number four " Back to Life". They have won two Grammy Awards, and have been nominated for five Brit Awards—twice for Best British Group. Career 1988–1989: Beginnings and club classics The group initially attracted attention as a sound system some years prior to 1988 run by founder Jazzie B, playing at nights including their own at the Africa Centre, London. By 1988, the official lineup was Jazzie B, Caron Wheeler, Nellie Hooper, Simon Law, Doreen Waddell, Rose Windross, Daddae, Aitch B, and Jazzie Q. They released their first single, "Fairplay", with Rose Windross on lead vocals, recorded at the Africa Centre. where the collective hosted a regular Sunday-night residency. The song charted at number 63 on the UK Singles Chart, while their follow-up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhythm And Blues
Rhythm and blues, frequently abbreviated as R&B or R'n'B, is a genre of popular music that originated within African American communities in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to African Americans, at a time when "rocking, jazz based music ... [with a] heavy, insistent beat" was starting to become more popular. In the commercial rhythm and blues music typical of the 1950s through the 1970s, the bands usually consisted of a piano, one or two guitars, bass, drums, one or more saxophones, and sometimes background vocalists. R&B lyrical themes often encapsulate the African-American history and experience of pain and the quest for freedom and joy, as well as triumphs and failures in terms of societal racism, oppression, relationships, economics, and aspirations. The term "rhythm and blues" has undergone a number of shifts in meaning. In the early 1950s, it was frequently applied to blues records. Starting i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of European mainland, the continental mainland. It comprises England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The UK includes the island of Great Britain, the north-eastern part of the island of Ireland, and most of List of islands of the United Kingdom, the smaller islands within the British Isles, covering . Northern Ireland shares Republic of Ireland–United Kingdom border, a land border with the Republic of Ireland; otherwise, the UK is surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean, the North Sea, the English Channel, the Celtic Sea and the Irish Sea. It maintains sovereignty over the British Overseas Territories, which are located across various oceans and seas globally. The UK had an estimated population of over 68.2 million people in 2023. The capital and largest city of both England and the UK is London. The cities o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gimmel (band)
Gimmel were a Finnish girl group. In the spring of 2002, a ''Popstars'' competition was held in Finland to find members to form a pop band. 454 young women participated in the singing trials. 25 girls made it to the final selection round. Members of the first Popstars band in Finland were Jenni Vartiainen, Susanna Korvala, Ushma Karnani, and Jonna Pirinen. After a few weeks arguments between the girls increased, and Jonna decided to leave the band for a solo career. Ushma, Susanna, and Jenni continued. They decided to adopt the name ''Gimmel''. Gimmel is the third letter in the Hebrew alphabet, and it also means the number three. A gimmel ring was a Renaissance betrothal An engagement or betrothal is the period of time between the declaration of acceptance of a marriage proposal and the marriage itself (which is typically but not always commenced with a wedding). During this period, a couple is said to be ''fi ... and wedding ring made in three parts, or two. The band's ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stara (magazine)
Stara is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Aleksandrów, within Piotrków County, Łódź Voivodeship, in central Poland. It lies approximately south-west of Aleksandrów, south-east of Piotrków Trybunalski, and south-east of the regional capital Łódź Łódź is a city in central Poland and a former industrial centre. It is the capital of Łódź Voivodeship, and is located south-west of Warsaw. Łódź has a population of 655,279, making it the country's List of cities and towns in Polan .... References Villages in Piotrków County {{Piotrków-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Keskisuomalainen
is a daily Finnish language newspaper published in Jyväskylä, serving Central Finland, central Finland (''Keski-Suomi'' means Central Finland). Its parent company Keskisuomalainen Oyj owns nearly 80 newspapers. History and profile was first published on 7 January 1871 with the title ''Keski-Suomi'', and is the oldest Finnish-language newspaper still in circulation. The current name was adopted in 1918.Hokkanen, KariKeskisuomalaisessakin on taisteltu vallasta ja linjasta ''Ilkka'' (in Finnish), 2 December 2007 The paper has its headquarters in Jyväskylä. is published in Broadsheet, broadsheet format. The paper was the organ of the Centre Party (Finland), Centre Party until 1986 when it declared itself as "a newspaper in the centre". The paper's parent company, Keskisuomalainen Oyj, has a virtual monopoly in newspaper publishing in central Finland. After April 2019 Keskisuomalainen owns nearly 80 different newspapers. Acquisitions: * ''2001 Savon Mediat Oy;'' majority of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sanoma News
Sanoma Corporation (, , formerly SanomaWSOY) is Finland's largest media group and a European education publisher. The company has media business in Finland and an education business in twelve European countries, including Belgium, Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, Norway, Italy and Spain. Sanoma Corporation is headquartered in Helsinki. At the end of 2023, Sanoma net sales totalled €1.393 billion and the company had approximately 5,000 employees. Description The story of Sanoma began in 1889 with the establishment of the newspaper '' Päivälehti'' in Finland. SanomaWSOY was formed in 1999 with the merger of Sanoma Corporation, WSOY (''Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö; Werner Söderström Corporation'') and Helsinki Media Company. The group reverted to the name Sanoma Corporation in October 2008. Sanoma operates in twelve European countries. Sanoma shares are listed on Nasdaq Helsinki. The company consists of two divisions: * Sanoma Learning: educational publishing and services ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
