Electronic Press Kit Emmi Kujanpää

"NANI is magnificent"

"NANI ist grandios"

Nordische Musik, Tim Jonathan Kleinecke: ★★★★★

"Nani’ – wonderful songs... Unique!"

Nani', die einen mit wunderbaren Gesängen.. Einzigartig!"

INMUSIC, RAINER GUÉRIGH: ★★★★★

"This album is femininity that has become music. Mystical and mysterious full, gentle, sensual and yet determined and powerful."

//"dieses Album ist die Musik gewordene Weiblichkeit. Mystisch und geheimnisvoll, sanft, sinnlich und doch bestimmt und kraftvoll."

Nordis, Christine Birkel (Nani)

World Music Charts Europe #13 in February 2020, #12 in March 2020, #13 in April 2020

Longlist 2/2020 vom Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik e.V.

ABOUT

(INFORMATIONEN AUF DEUTSCH)

Emmi Kujanpää ( b. 1980) is a Helsinki-based artist – folk singer, kantele (Finno-Karelian Zither) player and composer specializing in Finno-Karelian and Balkan folk music. Since 2010 Emmi Kujanpää has released several band albums as well as the internationally acclaimed solo album Nani (Nordic Notes, GE / Sibelius Academy, 2020) in collaboration with the Bulgarian choir Le Mystère des Voix Bulgares Vocal Academy. The Nani album was released on VINYL in autumn 2022, and the album was released in Japan in spring 2023.

In her compositions and music videos Kujanpää deals with the different aspects of femininity and transgenerationality. She tells stories about female goddesses and #metoo experiences through vocal ornamentation, traditional lamentations, and dissonance. In her solo performances Emmi Kujanpää accompanies her singing with kantele, cow bells and jewellery percussion.

Emmi Kujanpää has featured on 20 albums and she has composed music for documentaries and fashion shows. She successfully combines traditions with different line-ups and crosses genre boundaries. In 2009 Emmi Kujanpää founded the Finnish-Bulgarian vocal ensemble Finno-Balkan Voices (active 2010-2016), whose album was internationally acclaimed. Kujanpää is currently a member of Celenka (2013– ), a Finnish folk music trio. Celenka was given the prestigious Finnish Ethno EMMA Award in music in May 2022 for the band's second album Villoi varsa (Nordic Notes, 2021).

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