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Johanna Kurkela (born 10 April, 1985 in Lumijoki, Finland) is a Finnish singer. She started to play the violin at the age of five and continued for for seven years. She went on to the classical piano a few years later. She attended secondary school in Oulu at Madetojan musiikkilukio (an upper secondary school, otherwise known as a gymnasium in other parts of Europe) specializing in music. Her first published work was the duet Tahdon tanssia kanssasi with Tomi Metsäketo in 2004. Kurkela released her first album Hetki hiljaa in 2005. She got a lot of publicity in Finnish Preselection...

Even though she is a relative newcomer on the Finnish jazz scene, Johanna Iivanainen (née Niemelä) has already made her mark – and then some. Iivanainen's first professional performances came in her late teens, and her very first touring ensemble was Khamos, which hailed from her Northern home town of Oulu. The singer's first truly noteworthy ensemble was called Free Control. Led by guitarist Mikko Iivanainen, the team released two adventurous albums at the turn of the Millennium: 'Free Control' in 1998 and 'Free Control II' in 2001. Another important team of the time was Unit 6, which concentrated mainly...

There are more artists with this name: 1) Johanna, formerly known as Johanna Siekkinen (born October 12, 1976), is a Finnish singer. 2) Johanna Nylander is a Swedish singer, known for her song "Kumbaya". .

Johanna Juhola is a Finnish accordion player and composer who is busily blowing off the last of the dust of past generations from her instrument. If young audiences have managed to miss the experimentation and revolution of Kimmo Pohjonen and Maria Kalaniemi, their attention may yet be grabbed by this highly talented young woman who sports dreadlocks and makes unabashed forays into pop music. Juhola first gained recognition in the early 2000s with two first prizes in Astor Piazzolla competitions: with the Novjaro Quintet at the International Astor Piazzolla Competition in 2000, and in a duo with Milla Viljamaa in...