Arja Koriseva

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Arja Koriseva Biography

This was a very appropriate job for a future tango star, as the classic tango El Choclo, written by Ángel Villoldo in 1903, means “the corncob”. Meanwhile Kastanja became the backing group for Marjo-Riitta Nieminen, who sings under the stage name Marjorie.

Arja’s name is a modern made-up Finnish name. It first appears in Eino Leino´s poem Arja and Selinä of 1916; but the Arja in the poem is a boy. The Finns soon decided that Arja was more suitable as a girl’s name. The -a ending is of no significance: the Finnish language has no genders, not even for people. There is a Russian name, variously transliterated as Arija, Arja, and Ara, which is a variant of Ariadne. Arja was most popular as a girl’s name between 1940 and 1965. Other famous Arjas from this period are Arja Saijonmaa (b. 1944), Arja Havakka (b. 1944), and Arja Sipola (b. 1956).

Koriseva and her sister/fellow singer, Eija (b. 31 October 1963), sang with the Peräkylä Boys band in youth hostels, holiday camps, restaurants and various other places in central Finland from 1978. When the Peräkylä Boys broke up to continue their studies, the Koriseva sisters created a new band, Kastanja (“Chestnut”).

Arja Koriseva (born 21 April 1965) is a Finnish singer. She first came to fame as a tango singer; her repertoire now includes evergreen, pop, musical theatre, and sacred music.

In 1983, Koriseva was admitted to the Central Finland Conservatory to study music.

In the summer of 1984, Koriseva was a Lions Club scholarship student in Wilmar, Minneapolis, United States. She returned after three years for a summer with the same family. She said of this time:

In 1985, Koriseva enrolled in the Hämeenlinna teacher training college and got qualified in 1989, specialising in PE and Finnish language.

In the spring of 1989, with her mother’s encouragement, Koriseva entered the Tangomarkkinat singing competition. She engaged a new orchestra, Fortuna, and began to rehearse the tangos Kultaiset korvarenkaat and Vie meidät rakkauteen. These are not in fact Finnish tangos: the first is Golden Earrings, composed by Victor Young and the theme song of the film of the same name, the second is Tango d´Amour, by Leo Leandros.

Koriseva met her husband, Juha-Pekka Karmala, in 1985 when they were both college students in Hämeenlinna. However, they did not get together until Karmala moved to Jyväskylä to study special needs teaching. They married on 20 July 1996 and have three children: Patrik (born 5 August 1995), Karla Sol Angel (born 20 July 2001 in Colombia, adopted), and Verna Luna Gunilla (born 8 November 2006). The pair are very protective of their children’s privacy, and never talk about them to the papers or allow their photographs to be published.

Since then, Koriseva has recorded 15 albums (up to September 2007), and appeared in concerts and at dance halls all over Finland, as well as Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Jordan, and the UK. She has sung sacred music in church concerts, and appeared with Belgian superstar Helmut Lotti. She appears frequently on Finnish TV: she was a guest on the musical game show BumtsiBum! several times; she and Joel Hallikainen presented the musical game show Jos sais kerran in 2002-2003; and she was the heroine in the children’s programme Hilarius and Loru-Liisa, with a giant mouse. She was the Finnish voice of Pocahontas in the animated film and TV series of that name. She has appeared in the soap opera Prince of Pop and in Ready Steady Cook. Koriseva has returned to the Tangomarkkinat several times as judge, and presented in 1991, 1994, and 2004. The spectacular Eyes of an Angel concert of 1999 was broadcast on national TV. She has attempted four times to represent Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest (1991, 1992, 1993, 2004), but has never been selected.

On 2 November 2015, Koriseva was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Koriseva comes from a musical family: her parents were both active in the church choir, and the harmonikka player, Erkki Friman, is Koriseva’s maternal uncle (The Finnish harmonikka is not a mouth organ. It is a kind of accordion, with symmetrically arranged buttons instead of piano keys. It is not the same instrument as a bandoneon).

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