MIRELLA

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Mirella is a singer/songwriter born and raised on the west coast of Finland. Her Finnish mother gave Mirella a colorful upbringing, influenced by jazz from early age, with her mother being a jazz singer as well. Her father being Spanish, can maybe be seen in a bit of a temper and great passion in everything she does.

Mirella was signed by Dee Kay Records in 2001 and her first pop single “It’s Monday Again” was released in the Nordic countries. The song got a lot of attention and radio play and was on radio in Sweden “No 1 of the Week”, “The Wild Shot”, “The Power Song”, “The Hit”. The music video reached no 2 on the Nordic Video top-list. The song was written by the Swedish team at Eclectic, who also were known for having written songs for Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera among others. This song was produced by Dennis B. (Eclectic) and co-produced by Janne Hyöty.

The debut album “Mirella”, was released in April 2002, including “It’s Monday Again” and the single titles “Cold Outside”and “Maybe U, Maybe I”. Most of the songs on this album were written and produced by Janne Hyöty. There are also several co-writes with Mirella, Stefan Lindblom, Kalle Katz, Pia Slangar and Mike Estes.

Mirella did radio, live- and tv-shows and eventually went to study jazz at the Norwegian University in Trondheim and got her degree as a vocal teacher. In 2004 she competed in the Finnish Eurovision contest with a jazz-bossanova “My Everlasting”. In 2007 she released the critically acclaimed jazz-album “The Mesh” with her band Kurkirku. The record was nominated for the Jazz Emma Award for Best Jazz Album in 2008.

She lived in Granada, Spain in 2015 and studied the Spanish music scene, collaborated with local flamenco musicians and started a group called Flamenco Nordico, combining jazz and Nordic soundscapes with traditional flamenco. The past 10 years she’s been focusing on writing her own music as well as composing for other artists and for several theater productions.

Mirella did a comeback as releasing artist with the single "The Drive" released 31th of July, 2020 in co-operation with Dee Kay Records. The song is written by Mirella and she co-produced the song with Janne Hyöty. The song is about a possessive love affair ending up on a tense drive through the desert. We hear a more mature Mirella, where the sound is personal, dark and sensual. The music is a mix of pop and jazz with a splash of ethnic and electronical sound influences. Mirella has since then released several singles on her own with the latest "Palabras" in Spanish. Mirella is working on her upcoming album "Guidelines".