A graffiti in Pieksämäki representing the former President of Finland, Urho Kekkonen, who is well recognised in Finnish popular culture.

Also popular among the international performing arts community in Europe, a group of Finnish producers organized an international karaoke competition called KWC ( Karaoke World Championships ).

A graffiti in Pieksämäki representing Kekkonen, who is still well recognised in Finnish popular culture.

The monotonous reading out of the votes, in groups of five, is still well-recognized in Finnish popular culture, and broadly quoted and paraphrased ; " Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen, Kekkonen.

* Pyton was a similar comic from Norway which was quite popular in the Nordic countries in the ' 90s ; the Finnish translation of the Pyton comic continues as the comic Myrkky

Also, when the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland held a popular contest to nominate the " most energizing " word in the Finnish language, one of the suggestions was Perkele because " it is the curse word that gave the most strength for the reconstruction of Finland after the wars.

Rallying became very popular in Sweden and Finland in the 1950s, thanks in part to the invention there of the specialsträcka ( Swedish ) or erikoiskoe ( Finnish ), or special stage: shorter sections of route, usually on minor or private roads — predominantly gravel in these countries — away from habitation and traffic, which were separately timed.

* Nea ( given name ), the 8th most popular Finnish girls ' name in 2004.

Lutefisk is very popular in Nordic-North American areas of Canada, especially the prairie regions and the large Finnish community at Sointula on Malcolm Island in the province of British Columbia, and the United States, particularly in the Upper Midwest and Pacific Northwest.

A Finnish language edition ( Keski-Maa Roolipeli or KERP ) was published in 1990 and the game became one of the most popular fantasy role playing games in Finland.

According to the Finnish historian Martti Turtola, Ryti succeeded in politics in the first few years after the Finnish Civil War because his liberal, democratic, and republican ideals were popular then.

The band's debut release was the 1999 album, In Stereo ( Sony Music ), that contained the singles " Freestyler ", " Uprocking Beats " and " B-Boys & Flygirls ", all of which were popular in Finland —" Uprocking Beats " reached the # 1 position on the Finnish Dance charts.

It is said that his regnal name was to be Väinö I of Finland (' Väinö ' obviously referring to Väinämöinen, one of the main characters in the Finnish national epic Kalevala ), but due to there not being contemporary records of this name it is widely considered a popular misbelief, probably created by columnist Väinö Nuorteva.

Also very few Finns speak Estonian ( which is not taught in most schools ), a language of the same Finnic language group as Finnish, and national language of Finland's southern neighbour Estonia, although Finnish is popular in Estonia.

In June 2009 the site was the sixth most popular Finnish website.

The hunters focus on deer and moose, but small game such as hare, ducks and grouse are popular for their taste, and game makes a natural addition to the Finnish cuisine.

The Leningrad Cowboys is a Finnish rock band famous for humorously performing rock and roll covers of popular songs, exaggerated pompadour hairstyles, long, pointy shoes, often featuring a Russian military band, the Alexandrov Ensemble.

The television cult also caught on in Scandinavia and Dinner for One has been a hugely popular permanent, mandatory institution on Danish, Finnish and Swedish television on New Year's Eve for many years, as well in Belgium in the original version.

Finnish folk music has undergone a roots revival in the recent decades, and has also become a part of popular music.

A Schlager scene with bandstand dancing exists where Finnish tango, somewhat modified from the Argentinian, is also popular.

Since the 1920s, several popular Finnish performers have used rekilaulu as an integral part of their repertoire.

Iskelmä ( coined directly from the German word Schlager, meaning hit ) is a traditional Finnish word for a light popular song.

Juha " Watt " Vainio was another popular song-writer, known not only for Finnish renditions of many international hits but also for his own songs and being a performer in his own right.

** Finnskogen, using the standard fiddle, but featuring some flatted notes influenced by Finnish folk music.

Finnish nationalism emerged, focused on Finnish cultural traditions, including music and-especially-the highly distinctive language and lyrics associated with it.

Meanwhile, Sakamoto continues to craft music to suit any context: In 2005, Finnish mobile phone manufacturer Nokia hired Sakamoto to compose ring and alert tones for their high-end phone, the Nokia 8800.

Arguably, the wanderer, a recurring theme in Finnish folklore dating back to pre-Christian oral tradition ( as with Lemminkäinen in the Kalevala ), translated quite easily to the music of Huhta, Salomaa, and Kylander ; each of whom have songs about the trials and tribulations of the hobo.

Notable members of the Industrial Workers of the World have included Lucy Parsons ; Helen Keller ; Joe Hill ; Ralph Chaplin ; Ricardo Flores Magon ; James P. Cannon ; James Connolly ; Jim Larkin ; Paul Mattick ; Big Bill Haywood ; Eugene Debs ; David Dellinger ; Elizabeth Gurley Flynn ; Sam Dolgoff, Monty Miller ; Indian Nationalist Lala Hardayal ; Frank Little ; ACLU founder Roger Nash Baldwin ; Harry Bridges, briefly, later helped form ILWU ; Minnesota Governor Floyd B. Olson ; Buddhist beat poet Gary Snyder ; Fredy Perlman ; Australian poets Harry Hooton and Lesbia Harford ; graphic artist Carlos Cortez ; artist Kevin McCoy ; counterculture icon Kenneth Rexroth ; Surrealist Franklin Rosemont ; Rosie Kane and Carolyn Leckie, former Members of the Scottish Parliament ; labor and environmental organizer Judi Bari ; folk musicians Utah Phillips, Harry McClintock, Anne Feeney, and David Rovics ; crime writer Jim Thompson ; Finnish folk music legend Hiski Salomaa ; Catholic Workers Dorothy Day and Ammon Hennacy.

In 2004 the Finnish choreographer Tero Saarinen and Boston Camerata music director Joel Cohen created a live performance work with dance and music entitled " Borrowed Light.

* Suomirokki, Finnish rock music

The music of Finntroll features a " real innovation " in the marriage of black metal music with a style of Finnish polka called humppa.

* Aulis Sallinen, Finnish contemporary classical music composer

Finnish music: Finland's folk styles include a variety of national genres and ballads, while the traditional rhyming sleigh songs rekilaulu have become an integral part of many pop singers.

He also hosted a radio show, Your Ballad Man, in 1949 that was broadcast nationwide on the Mutual Radio Network and featured a highly eclectic program, from gamelan music, to Django Reinhardt, to Klezmer music, to Sidney Bechet and Wild Bill Davison, to jazzy pop songs by Maxine Sullivan and Jo Stafford, to readings of the poetry of Carl Sandburg, to hillbilly music with electric guitars, to Finnish brass bands – to name a few.

* Playback ( Arabic, Croatian, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Romanian, Serbian, Spanish, Turkish ) — lip sync ( in songs ) / Lip-synching in music

In 2003, the Finnish rock band HIM released the album Love Metal, which contains a song ( and the corresponding music video ) called " The Funeral of Hearts ".

* Finnish: Thanks to pioneering Stratovarius influence, Finnish bands make heavy use of keyboards and make generally very melodic and " softer " music, compared to German or Swedish scene.

* Jean Sibelius ( 1865 – 1957 ), Finnish composer of classical music, or his namesakes:

He wrote vocal music in German, Swedish and Finnish.

Category: Finnish conductors ( music )

The Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish released on 11 August 2007 their latest music video, " Amaranth ", which is based on this particular painting.

Classical music ( concerts by the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra ), jazz, folk, world music and religious music.