Folk musician Maija Kauhanen wants to encourage.
Finnish folk musician Maija Kauhanen is pictured at the Boreal International Festival in the Canary Islands in 2018. PDO
If you want to overcome shame, you have to go to the deep end and dare. That’s how you think Mightily interviewed folk musician Maija Kauhanen, who is really shy. The musician, who recently received the Nordic music award, wanted to cross his own boundaries and therefore founded the group Duo Pimperot, which performs erotic folk songs Pearl Camus with.
According to Kauhanen, the orgasmic songs performed by the band have no greater meaning, they are just fun.
– I’m interested in daring, and I struggle between such daring and shyness, Kauhanen tells Yle.
That’s why you have to show off when performing: women are seen on stage with wigs on.
Maija Kauhanen is an Emma-awarded long-time artist who recently won the Nordic Music Prize. She is a kantele player, folk musician and singer-songwriter, whose texts often tell the stories of women of different ages, and the themes of her feminist texts include domestic violence and fears. Kauhanen’s output includes releases both as a solo artist and with various ensembles. Duo with Pimpero has been published in 2018 The maid screamed pinkotinta -plate.
He received the music prize of the Nordic Council of about 40,000 euros at the award ceremony held in Oslo on October 31. In 2017, Kauhanen won the Emma prize for the best ethnic album and the Kritiikin Kannukset prize awarded by the critics for his debut album Fury bike.
Kauhanen will go on an extensive concert hall tour to Japan in December.