Finland: Isaac Sene releases his UMK 2022 entry “Kuuma jäbä”

Finland: Isaac Sene releases his UMK 2022 entry “Kuuma jäbä”
Friday, 21 January 2022

  • Isaac Sene has released  his entry for the Finnish national final, UMK 2022, titled “Kuuma jäbä” (Hot dude) .

    Following the release of the seven UMK 2022 contestants, the candidates have been since then progressively releasing throughout the week their entries. Isaac Sece is the seventh and last act to release his competing song which is titled titled “Kuuma jäbä” (Hot dude). 

     

     Isaac Sene – "Kuuma jäbä"

    Isaac Sene is vying for a ticket to Eurovision in Italy with his song Kuuma jäbä. Sene’s Koko kansan EP was released in 2020. The most streamed song from the EP, Bébé, features Vesta, and the song Älä oo liian kiltissä includes Yeboyah. Growing up in the North Savo region, Sene spent his childhood listening to all kinds of music, including everything from Mozart to Bob Marley, trance to Finnish heavy metal, thus laying the foundation for his enormously eclectic style. 

    Sene wrote the song together with producer Alvar Escartin, a.k.a. Yrjänä. Yrjänä has produced music for, among others, Finnish artists Lukas Leon and Hassan Maikal. 

    The rest six contestants of UMK 2022, the Finnish national final for Eurovision 2022, that released their songs previously are: 

     

    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