Piret Järvis (born 6 February 1984 in
Tallinn
Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...
) is an
Estonia
Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and t ...
n television host and a singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the popular
girl group
A girl group is a music act featuring several female singers who generally harmonize together. The term "girl group" is also used in a narrower sense in the United States to denote the wave of American female pop music singing groups, many of who ...
Vanilla Ninja.
Born to Maire and Enno Järvis she has an older sister and a younger brother. After graduating high school she entered International University of Concordia where she was majoring in Media and Public Relations. Later she continued to study journalism at the University of Tartu.

She was one of the four members to form Vanilla Ninja in 2002 and wrote lyrics for the song "Club Kung Fu" that made Vanilla Ninja well known in Estonia. She continued as a lyricist for many of the band's songs like "Birds Of Peace", "I Don't Care at All", "Black Symphony" etc. Although she initially played a more 'background' role in the group, she featured heavily on their 2005 album ''
Blue Tattoo'' due to
Maarja Kivi (the former lead singer) leaving in 2004. Järvis often acted as the spokesperson for the group in interviews, and on numerous occasions has been dubbed as the best looking and most stylish member. In 2005 she was voted Estonia's sexiest woman of the year by the readers of Estonia's best-selling gossip magazine ''
Kroonika''.
Järvis gave out the Estonian votes in
Eurovision 2011, which mathematically confirmed Azerbaijan's first victory in the competition.
She has worked for different Estonian TV channels since 2002, including
TV3 Channel 3 or TV 3 may refer to:
Television
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,
MTV Eesti
MTV Eesti was a twenty-four-hour music and entertainment channel operated by MTV Networks Europe. The channel began on 4 September 2006 at 22:00 EEST. The channel was available in Estonia.
History
*In 2006, MTV Networks Europe established M ...
, MTV Baltics, and is currently a host and a journalist at the
Eesti Rahvusringhääling
Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR) – ''Estonian Public Broadcasting'' – is a publicly funded and owned radio and television organisation created in Estonia on 1 June 2007 to take over the functions of the formerly separate Eesti Raadi ...
. She has hosted shows such as ''Pealtnägija'', ''
Eesti Laul
Eesti Laul (English: 'Estonian Song' or 'The Song of Estonia') is an annual music competition organised by Estonian public broadcaster Eesti Rahvusringhääling (ERR). It determines the country's representative for the Eurovision Song Contest, a ...
'', ''Jõulutunnel'', and ''Terevisioon''.
References
External links
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1984 births
Living people
Singers from Tallinn
Estonian pop singers
21st-century Estonian women singers
Women guitarists
Vanilla Ninja members
Eurovision Song Contest entrants for Switzerland
Estonian television personalities
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