[AdSense-B] Saara Aalto certainly caused quite a stir with her first UMK candidate song “Monsters”, which was released last week. The uptempo pop banger can be seen high up the ranking of many Eurovision fans on YouTube when it comes to the potential songs for this year’s competition and the hype has lifted Finland to an unexpected position atop the …
[AdSense-B] It’s official and public, so now we can report it! Saara Aalto has finally released the first candidate song of her solo performance in this year’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, with the upbeat and anthemic “Monsters” kicking off Finland’s national selection. The song’s visually striking video sees Saara perform in a darkened mansion with a number of drag queen and …
In November 2017, Saara Alto was internally selected by the broadcaster YLE to represent Finland in the Eurovison Song Contest 2018. In the near future, we will know the songs that will compete in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK), the Finnish National Final. Aalto will perform a total of three entries with the Finish public picking their favorite to send to Lisbon, Portugal. …
The first amazing news today, before the EBU and RTP press conference later today, is coming from Finland. We are all excited as Saara Aalto will represent Finland next year in Lisbon! Saara first tried to represent her country in 2011, but she finished second. The same thing happened last year with her entry No fear. Charismatic singer then tried …
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu, Finland’s national selection for Eurovision, has certainly put the Nordic nation back on the map when it comes to high quality, exciting and interesting selection shows in recent years. With a variety of genres winning the Finnish contest including punk rock, indie pop, a piano ballad and cheesy pop, it would be hard to predict exactly what …
It is less than one month since Finland chose Norma John to represent their country in Kiev. One of the competing artists in Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu (UMK) was runner-up Zühlke with her song “Perfect Villain”. We caught up with her after UMK and found out what she thinks about the winning song and a lot more about her …
The finals are really coming thick and fast now! And for traditional Eurovision fans it is one of the newer highlights of the calendar tonight as Finland’s Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu takes place in Helsinki! While this year’s contest has been scaled back from recent years, the quality has certainly not dipped with some fantastic songs (and certainly some interesting choices!) …
In today’s ESC United Know-it-Alls podcast, the ESC United panel is reviewing and dissecting the ten songs taking part in UMK, the National Final show in Finland. Matt, Zack, James and Calvin lightheartedly go over all songs and share their thoughts and opinions. In the end, their results were combined, along with the votes of our ESC United readers previously …
As we previously reported, the ten finalists for UMK (Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu 2017) back in November. Now we are only a few days away from the National Final. Now our team and the readers will need to pick the song that ESC United is going to officially endorse. The ESC United jury will review the entries on Wednesday and rate …
The final of Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu will kick off in 5 days time. Today, Alva has found time to talk to us. Hello Alva First of all thank you for your time talking to us. How are you ? Can you introduce yourselves ? What can you tell us about yourself? I am Alva, 16 years old, and I am home …
