Arto Merisalo, a friend of Tapani Kansan, was impressed by the spirit of the singer’s blessing and the memorial.
Tapani Kansa and Arto Merisalo were friends for decades. Arto Merisalo’s home album
Vocalist Tapani’s people Blessed today on his last trip in Helsinki in the old Chapel of Hietaniemi. The spouse was present at the event Nina af Enehjelmin Inviting people’s people, about thirty people.
One of them was a business leader Arto Merisalohad decades long friendship with the people. He describes that he was present at over a hundred blessings and has never experienced such an atmosphere as today on Friday.
– The choice of the chapel was the perfect tens. There were beautifully different colored wild flowers on the Tapan coffin. He loved flowers. At the other end of the chapel, the sun was shining in the window. It was such a beautiful opportunity that I have not experienced something similar in my life, Merisalo describes.
Him was greatly thrilled by the bishop Teemu Laajasalo The speech that was not unnecessary for words, but a genuine description of the life of Tapani Kansa.
– He talked about Tapan as a person, a friend and a family member. And the music that was chosen, as a man such a religious man, must say that the sky was present when those songs were sung.
He says he has moved several times at the event.
– There were no handkerchiefs in the pocket. The eyebrows had to be wiped many times during the blessing, he laughs.
– It’s funny that even during the songs, because they touched so much. There was a group of people who could sing and had a breath.
A breathless memorial
A friend reveals that the place for a memorial service was found in an incredible way.
– It even became the feeling that Tapani guided us from the other side of the border. Nina had been looking at the places for three days, but no suitable one was found. I applied for Google and was the first to get a singing restaurant, says Arto Merisalo.
Already the name of the place felt like a joke. Then it became clear that the song of the restaurant was founded in the same year that Tapani Kansa was born in 1949.
– As if Tapani had ordered a restaurant restaurant for himself. There are portraits of Finnish musicians on the walls and the whole restaurant is born around music, after all, it’s a pretty incomprehensible thing, Merisalo describes amused.
– That thing was clear at once and there we had a wonderful little opportunity. Food and speeches and music. Tapan’s brothers Seppo and Juha He remembered him very nicely.
Merisalo says she has made a welcome speech at a memorial service. There, the bowls were raised to the memory of Tapani Kansa.
– That opportunity was warm. There was an open discussion and reminiscence of Tapan, and reading addresses.
Merisalo has also taken the mourning time, and she describes the roller coaster of emotions in recent weeks. That’s what the beautiful goodbyes today brought peace.
-Sometimes we have cried, laughed, talked and watched through old photo archives. There have been long discussions at night with all the things that have been here. It was great to hear at that memorial service how the brothers and friends remembered Tapan, he praises.