Musikki/Musica/Music

Today I was exploring the biographies of my favorite artists and trying to find songs to do karaoke to at my friend's party. Last time I did karaoke, it was with my friend to the song "Super Bass" by Nicki Minaj and it was pretty awesome. I've almost got all the words down to Shakira's Spanish version of "Loca", but I keep messing up and she goes really fast. Anyway, I found some interesting information on some of my favorite European singers that Cheyenne might like to know about! I think that if you heard some of their music, you would be interested too Mrs. Laber.

I did not know this, but my favorite Scandinavian singer voiced the kid in the Norwegian dub of "How to Train Your Dragon." The singer, Alexander Rybak, was born in Belarus but immigrated as a baby to Norway, who he won Eurovision for in 2009. His music is AMAZING and it incorporated Norwegian violin melodies into it and its really popular throughout Scandinavia. He even wrote a song about how awesome Finland is- "Soumi"- which makes me love the music even more :3 Also Cheyenne, I found out that you can write to him and get an autograph. :] We should try it. Not only that, but I found out that his next album is going to be in Russian!

ALSO... My favorite Eastern European singer, Ruslana from Ukraine, FINALLY released her songs on the American iTunes after eight years. Her winning Eurovision song, like Rybak, has a lot of ethnic Ukrainian sounds in it mixed with pop and it sounds awesome. She also released the album that she wrote about the 2004 Ukrainian Revolution, which is also a really good one.

One of my favorite Serbian singers, Marija Šerifović, actually has a Finnish version of her song that is available in America, so I'm really happy about that too.

ALSO... In the world of Euro-dance, Romania's Alexandra Stan is about to release another album. One of my favorite Baltic singers, Ott Lepland, released his top song in four languages, AND the Icelandic and English version of Iceland's Eurovision song from this year was released, which contains an epic violin solo that I love soooo much. Sweden's Loreen, who just one Eurovision, is holding the #1 position on the charts in many countries, but its still not available for purchase here :(

I'd say this year is going to be a good year for music. I encourage you to check out some of the artists I mentioned, if you have time!