Sansa got her first guitar when she was 16 and started to jam with it every day after school. "It sort of opened me to a world of emotions. Music became my muse, a confidant. I had a lot of existential angst back then and I could singgibberish for hours and beat up my guitar", she says.
Sansa was born in Seinäjoki, in western part of Finland. She listened to music from all genres ‐ Madonna, Nirvana, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, The Beatles, Air and Eurythmics among others. She further developed her singing and guitar playing by attending the Pop & Jazz Conservatory in Helsinki.
She made a couple of demos and got one of her songs picked up by an A&R person from Warner Music Finland and was immediately signed. Her first album ‘Vagabond Girl’ was released in 2005 with positive reviews. But Sansa felt somewhat in need of a break. "I felt that I was being too manipulated by other people when it came to my music. It wasn't fun anymore". She promised herself not to do music again until it felt once more good and comfortable.
In 2007 Sansa attended to a film school in Helsinki University of Applied Sciences to study film sound. It was not long before she directed a short documentary of live‐looping and was interested in the way live‐loopers approached the music. "It was more like a scientist organizing sounds with a pipette in a laboratory, creating a piece in a real time. I learned that you shouldn't have any boundaries while performing and making music. It opened a new world for me".
Over the years she has composed music to short movies and documentaries beside sound design and supported Robert Plant, Genesis, Bryan Adams, Katie Melua and Martha Wainwright on their tours in Finland.
Gathering speed on the live front as well she was awarded the ”Debutant of the Year” accolade by the Helsinki Festival in 2010 and received the Nokia Young Talent Scholarship in 2006 while graduating from the Helsinki Pop/Jazz Conservatory.
Her second album ‘Sansa’ (2009) came out on Texicalli Records. It was produced by Janne Oinas and received rave reviews. The single ‘Sorry My Love’gained a lot of airplay on radio. Sansa's third album to date ‘Savior’ is again produced by Janne Oinas. It came out in late 2011 in Finland but will be released throughout Europe, the US and Japan in 2012. An international stage beckons for Sansa and her unique musical imagination.
Sansa was born in Seinäjoki, in western part of Finland. She listened to music from all genres ‐ Madonna, Nirvana, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, The Beatles, Air and Eurythmics among others. She further developed her singing and guitar playing by attending the Pop & Jazz Conservatory in Helsinki.
She made a couple of demos and got one of her songs picked up by an A&R person from Warner Music Finland and was immediately signed. Her first album ‘Vagabond Girl’ was released in 2005 with positive reviews. But Sansa felt somewhat in need of a break. "I felt that I was being too manipulated by other people when it came to my music. It wasn't fun anymore". She promised herself not to do music again until it felt once more good and comfortable.
In 2007 Sansa attended to a film school in Helsinki University of Applied Sciences to study film sound. It was not long before she directed a short documentary of live‐looping and was interested in the way live‐loopers approached the music. "It was more like a scientist organizing sounds with a pipette in a laboratory, creating a piece in a real time. I learned that you shouldn't have any boundaries while performing and making music. It opened a new world for me".
Over the years she has composed music to short movies and documentaries beside sound design and supported Robert Plant, Genesis, Bryan Adams, Katie Melua and Martha Wainwright on their tours in Finland.
Gathering speed on the live front as well she was awarded the ”Debutant of the Year” accolade by the Helsinki Festival in 2010 and received the Nokia Young Talent Scholarship in 2006 while graduating from the Helsinki Pop/Jazz Conservatory.
Her second album ‘Sansa’ (2009) came out on Texicalli Records. It was produced by Janne Oinas and received rave reviews. The single ‘Sorry My Love’gained a lot of airplay on radio. Sansa's third album to date ‘Savior’ is again produced by Janne Oinas. It came out in late 2011 in Finland but will be released throughout Europe, the US and Japan in 2012. An international stage beckons for Sansa and her unique musical imagination.
Kuvaus
"I try to laugh as much as possible to survive the Northern melancholy!", Sansa says. That defiance of the dark, geographical landscape infuses Sansa’s latest album, one which draws from a surprisingly wide variety of disparate influences ‐ mixing up folk, pop, triphop and even disco (Sansa covers Italo‐disco queen Sabrina's massive Eurohit ‘Boys (Summertime Love)’ by turning it into a subtle and haunting folk song).A sense of being an outsider and the theme of forgiveness are recurring references in her work. Her lyrics are delivered with an engaging openess and the musical whole comes together with a quietly deceptive brilliance.
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