Värttinä - Sulhassii

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Värttinä "Sulhassii" 1993

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Music

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• värttinä
• varttina
• sulhassii
• 1993
• finnish
• folk
• finland
• world
• music

[muminek1988]

Omg!!! What a song!!! What are they doing with their voices!!! I'm positively shocked;D

[rusacco]

:) tradional finnish singing style!

[Kissinpoika]

I am a natural Finnish speaker and I understand 15% of what this is about. I would have to have it translittered to understand. Or played 20 times over.

[ralphyboy25]

@dweml258 I would venture to say that Värttinä is probably a wee bit more popular in Finland than the Dixie Chicks are in the U.S. I'm not sure there is actually a U.S. equivalent to Värttinä when you consider their large volume of work across their 30+ year history.

[dweml258]

I love Varttina. Sometimes they are a full band fronted by 3 women. Sort of like the Finnish Dixie Chicks...at least as good. Older videos seem to be traditional...and some times they are a capella like this. Then there is Aijo!! That one is chilling. (Finnish Voodoo?) My good friend in Finland doesn't like them at all. I have no idea why. I recognize just 1 word in this song Musta. No, it doesn't mean that...it means black. (doesn't it?)

[Eclipse6009]

1:22 "Anna suuta sulhollesi" Lappalainen vieno pyynti "Ota poskee / Anna päätä"

[BrandonScott1001]

:O I love this!!

[shesaesa]

Finnish folk song; " Wanna fuck?"

[EneriGiilaan]

@laelamarie1 They sometimes include a Setu-language intro to 'Pihi Neito' - did you perhaps mean that?

As far as I know they otherwise utilize only dialectical and/or old language forms of Finnish.

[EneriGiilaan]

@laelamarie1 I'm not jim, but - yeas they are sisters. Their mother was the primus motor of the original form of the band (school kids). Then later Sari (being the oldest) took the lead - as you can really see here ;)

Sari left at the of '96 for her other projects - and AFAIK the band has been lead on more 'democratic' way since.

[laelamarie1]

@jimkuemmerle So, Sari and Mari are sisters?

[laelamarie1]

@jimkuemmerle thank you for that information - love Sari!!! First, the language seems fun to sing and I enjoy those who "get into" the singing and she certainly does that - I also watched Pihi neito (?) and she, colloquially speaking, ROCKS!!!!