Värttinä - Liigua

As I promised, here is one more.

Music and lyrics by Susan Aho.

This was the first time I saw Värttinä. I was zaping and then ... there they were: I didn't know where they came from nor the language they were singing, but it was love at first sight. I had to stay awake until 3 a.m. when the TV station repeated the show to record it (I didn't rely in programming the video recorder). I don't know in English, but in Portuguese is common to say something like "the first time you never forget". I've never forgotten it.

SUSAN, I'M SORRY!!
THEY MISPELLED YOUR NAME ...

Category:

Music

Tags:

• värttinä
• varttina
• liigua
• susan
• aho

[wadsworthy]

Thank you one more time for your comment,Dora. I envy you for living so near them.

By the way, I intend in near future to re-upload this video without the problem of this contraction in width (sorry, I'm new in this "business" and formatted the video in a wrong way).

[regenluft]

Wadsworthy, thanks for posting this! love this song

[psychobollox]

one would think, but that's a Karelian word... like the Finnish word 'liikaa', meaning 'too much'.

the g is sounded as a k.

[bocckoka]

Isn't it Liiqua?

[MacAonghais]

Lovely, thanks for posting this.

[MisLuck]

Bad mixingon the video. I wish the voices would be more bright as they have amazing voices and this now just flattens them and does no right to them. I love this song when they do it live, it's amazing the charisma and fun these girls have on the stage and behind it, but well, that's Carelian for the world!

[varttinawww]

I love this song. Excellent performance.

Supposedly they play it live again. I've hope, that I will see Susan singing "Liigua" in this year.

wadsworthy thanks for posting!