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Live performances
Posted: EestiKurt @ Sat Jan 30, 2010 10:28
Next Dates with Vanilla Ninja & Co.
March 08, 2010 Lenna Kuurmaa and Alan Veziko "Muinasjutt Sinilinnust" at Saku Mõis, Saku (Harjumaa, Estonia)
(Women's day concert)
(Price EEK 150.00 / 195.00 / Begins at 20:00 hours)
March 12, 2010 Lenna Kuurmaa and Piret Järvis (Disko 4000) at "Eesti Laul 2010", Estonian song for the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo at Nokia Concert Hall, Tallinn (Estonia).
(Price EEK 495.00 / Begins at 21:00 hours, live coverage on ETV)
Lenna Kuurmaa has been voted for being among the 10 finalists of "EESTI LAUL 2010" who will among each other decide who will represent Estonia in the 2010 Eurovision Song Contest in Oslo, Norway.
Her song is called "RAPUNZEL". The original story is of course the girl living in a tower with the door locked by a evil witch. Her luck was that she did not cut her hair, but let it grow. So when a prince comes to visit her, she lets her hair down so the prince can go up to her...
A first voting shows the song is quite popular, gaining 34% of the readers vote, far in front of the others.
It seems to be necessary to explain some facts to be seen and drawn from the Estonia music scene, the environment Vanilla Ninja and Lenna Kuurmaa is in.
It is not easy for people from Germany or the United Kingdom or wherever to understand it.
See: if somebody in Germany sings schlager music, he keeps singing this kind of music until he/she ends the carreer. Imagine Nicole (the one who sung the ESC winning song in Harrogate, "Ein Bisschen Frieden") singing hard rock or opera, impossible! Imagine some rock musician doing pop or even schlager. Impossible to imagine that. Only few like Freddy Mercury the singer of QUEEN did or do so. But for the rest? All are in some kind of genre, and well. they stay there.
The Estonian scene is different.
Somebody singing rock on one day (Vanilla Ninja) would be singing Estonian laagrid the next day, and then again Estonian traditional songs, and back to pop. That is why Estonian artists are so versatile. It is the same with Urban Symphony ("Rändajad"), or any other Estonian artist you might know. The other way round is also possible. You got schlager singers who then decide to sing rock or film music.
In this light you must see Vanilla Ninja. Three girls, trying out their abilities. And be honest, Lenna Kuurmaa is one of the best. She can sing children's songs as well as film music or traditional songs or rock. And when she is on stage, you believe that she likes what she is doing there. That makes Estonian music so different and good.
Estonians will always keep a link to traditional composers, Raimond Valgre, Urmas Alender, or Mikk Targo. So we should be proud of that, as they do never forget where they come from. I hope you understand what I try to say.
