Finland: Tommi Läntinen drops his UMK 2022 entry “Elämä kantaa mua”

Finland: Tommi Läntinen drops his UMK 2022 entry “Elämä kantaa mua”
Thursday, 20 January 2022

  • Tommi Läntinen has released his entry for the Finnish national final, UMK 2022, titled “Elämä kantaa mua” (Life carries me).

    Following the release of the seven UMK 2022 contestants, the candidates are progressively releasing throughout the week their entries.

    With the first five out of seven competing entries released, Cyan Kicks with "Hurricane" , BESS with "Ram Pam Pam"  The Rasmus with "Jezebel",  Younghearted with "Sun Numero"   and Olivera with “Thank God I’m an Atheist”, the sixth entry by Tommi Läntinen has gone public. 

    Members of the band Haloo Helsinki! wrote Läntinen’s UMK entry: Leo Hakanen and Jere Marttila composed it and Elli Haloo wrote the lyrics.

    Tommi Läntinen. A musician for over 40 years, Läntinen has released several albums in different groups, performed at thousands of gigs, and collaborated with countless artists. Läntinen launched his solo career in 1994. Some of his biggest solo hits are Via Dolorosa, Syvälle sydämeen sattuu and Kevät ja minä. Läntinen’s most recent radio hit single Meidän murusia was released in the summer of 2020. 

     

    Song Releases

    The UMK entries are released on the official UMK Youtube channel every weekday at midnight Finnish time from January 13 onwards. The songs are released in accordance with the following schedule: 

    • January 13 – Cyan Kicks
    • January 14 –  BESS
    • January 17 – The Rasmus
    • January 18 – Younghearted
    • January 19 – Olivera
    • Jaunary 20 – Tommi Läntinen
    • January 21 – Isaac Sene

    UMK returns to Logomo arena in Turku after a two year break, as the show was hosted in the Mediapolis Studios in Tampere the last two editions. The national final is set to take place on February 26, 2022. The outcome of the national final will be determined by a combination of public (75%) and jury voting (25%).

     

    Finland in Eurovision

    Finland has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 53 times since its debut in 1961. Finland won the contest for the first time in 2006 with Lordi's "Hard Rock Hallelujah". The country's best result before then was achieved by Marion Rung with the song "Tom Tom Tom" in 1973, which placed sixth.

    Finland has finished last in the contest eleven times, receiving "nul points" in 1963, 1965 and 1982. Since the introduction of the semi-finals in 2004, Finland has failed to reach the final eight times. In 2014, the country had its best result in eight years when Softengine finished 11th. In 2015, Finland finished last in the first semi-final with the shortest-ever Eurovision entry, "Aina mun pitää" performed by Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät.

    In 2020 Aksel won the national final with the song “Looking Back”.  As the competition was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic he never reached the Eurovision stage in Rotterdam. 

    This year the rock band Blind Channel triumphed in UMK 2021 with their song 'Dark Side' and went off defending the Finnish colors in Rotterdam, where they achieved the country's second best result finishing 6th with 301 points in the overall score.

     

     

    News source/Image: YLE