In my view A couple of years ago when I travelled on my own to the beautiful city of Edinburgh, I stumbled upon the music of The Royal Scots Dragoon Guards. To me it has something magical! I visited the museum at the Edinburgh Castle site and was amazed by the authentic pride and culture… Read More Music | Spirit of the Glen (2007) The Ultimate Collection
In my view My music taste is diverse and most of the time I like the original artists versions more than the covers made by others. Except for a few. I like coverbands, choirs and combinations. As long as they add some depth to the original music, give it their own authentic swing, or make… Read More Music | The Choir of Man (2018)
In my view… The story of Happy Feet is a very lovely story that has also an important message: climate change and the danger for the wild animals it bring around the pole circles on our planet. But the storyline focuses on a king penguin who in contrast to his other fellow king penguin chickens,… Read More Happy Feet (2006)
Nearly two years ago I stumbled upon a this video of the group Musicality covering one of the most powerful songs of the film ‘The Greatest Showman’. A powerful song sung by a diverse group who puts their power into their voices and music and they sound and act as one. The magic and the… Read More YouTube | Musicality – From Now On (‘The Greatest Showman’) Musicality Cover
One of my favourite songs I heard for the first time when I was a little girl. There are different versions of the song, as in: more or less instruments. At some recordings you hear nearly a full band setting. This video of a live performance of Louis Armstrong, he is only accompanied by the… Read More YouTube | Louis Armstrong – Nobody Knows The Trouble I’ve Seen (1962)
Welcome to the first blog news blog post in the new series on Sophie’s Blog! In this blog post a recap of all recent published blog posts.And the second part of the blog news is about a weekly theme and some nice social posts I stumbled upon surrounding this theme. The socials are Instagram, Pinterest,… Read More Blog News #1
Finnish singer songwriter Saara Aalto has written the song ‘No Fear’. This video is pretty cool with live performance singing, dancing, costumes and the lights for the showcase. The lights setting reminds me of the video of Sam Sparro’s ‘Black and Gold’ video. The ‘No Fear Dance Remix’ official music video is composed by Saara… Read More YouTube | Saara Aalto – No Fear Dance Remix
Saara Aalto & Teemu Roivanen are both singer-songwriters with an incredible voice and they play the grande piano. More then ten years ago they became already friends and Teemu was the pianist in Saara’s Band. Teemu Roivanen started his solo career with his first album, discography record, in 2015. A year after this video. Saara… Read More YouTube | Saara Aalto and Teemu Roivanen – You Raise Me Up
This weekend I discovered musician Saara Aalto, a Finnish singer songwriter who competed back in 2016 in the British X Factor edition. Besides the covers she presented in the shows of X Factor United Kingdom, I also like this cover of Idina Menzel’s ‘Let It Go’ from the film Frozen. She sings this cover with… Read More YouTube | Saara Aalto – Let It Go – Multi-Language Version
A weekend at home – scrolling left, right, up and down and a click here and there through YouTube – I stumbled upon this Finnish artist Saara Aalto. Up until this weekend I did not know her music nor her covers. The first video I stumbled upon was her first audition for XFactor in the… Read More YouTube | Saara Aalto – Chandelier
