Kaija Koo is a guest on journalist Maria Veitola’s home Vuoroin vierain program.
In the Tuesday episode of the program “Vuoroin vieiräisa”. Maria Veitolan the singer Kaija Koo arrives as a guest, with whom we discuss, among other things, the position of women in the music industry.
– Times have changed, but it had to be tough, Kaija recalls the beginning of her career.
– If the atmosphere had been different, I feel that things could have been done differently. Doing it myself could have been more, the singer reflects.
Kaija says that the industry was brutal for women at that time.
– It was a strange setting when you came to something where there were men from the music industry. They had it so built in that we were nothing. They didn’t even bother to listen, Kaija tells Veitola.
– It was a tough time.
When her career took off again, Kaija decided to ignore the opinions of others.
– I remember when I went on stage, nobody was interested at first. That is, male artists, Kaija says.
– What about the fact that you’ve had to be a good guy, what has it been concretely? Veitola asks.
– It damaged my femininity. I had to deny my own identity a little. I couldn’t be like that, because then I wouldn’t have made it. A certain kind of gentleness and softness that mush has. I had to deny it, which is my most valuable quality, because that’s what I make music with, says Kaija.
Kaija Koo talks about the brutality of the music industry. MTV Oy / Ida Kentala
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