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ABBA - Voyage (2021). Cover art and copyright by Polar Music International AB. In my view My first review of a music album has to be... of course... ABBA! One of my favourite blog posts to write, because it is about the newest album of ABBA and the voyage that has led to it. After… Continue reading Music | ABBA – Voyage (2021)
Baba Yetu is a song that is covered by different artists over the past few years. I first heard of it at the YouTube channel of Peter Hollens through his cover of this song together with Malukah seven years ago. Baba Yetu stands for 'The Lord's Prayer' in the Swahili language. And this song sounds… Continue reading YouTube | Baba Yetu original song and covers
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… Continue reading YouTube | Musicality – From Now On (‘The Greatest Showman’) Musicality Cover
This challenge is a well known challenge in the series of #100DaysOfX challenges. Many people in the bookcommunity have heard about it, sometimes participated in it, and are hosting also often their own “[numberofdays][reading]” challenges or “[time/theme based][readathon]”s. The #100DaysOfX challenges exists for circa 3 years now. A Restart for some Reasons This summer I started with… Continue reading Challenge #100DaysOfReading Restart
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… Continue reading 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,… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading 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… Continue reading YouTube | Saara Aalto – Chandelier
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