Antti Tapani Tuisku is a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 pop singer, made famous by the 2003 Idols

Idols (Finland)

Idols is a Finnish reality-television singing competition that airs on MTV3 . It debuted in the summer of 2003, and went on to become one of the most popular shows on Finnish television...

talent show, the Finnish version of Pop Idol

Pop Idol

Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on 6 October 2001. The show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer in the United Kingdom, based on viewer voting and participation. Two series were broadcast - one in 2001-02 and a second in 2003...

. Although Tuisku finished third in the show, he has easily become the most popular artist of the three. Currently Tuisku lives in Helsinki

Helsinki

Helsinki is the capital and largest city in Finland. It is in the region of Uusimaa, located in southern Finland, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, an arm of the Baltic Sea. The population of the city of Helsinki is , making it by far the most populous municipality in Finland. Helsinki is...

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Tuisku has sold over 200,000 records in Finland during his career. He has said that his idol is Madonna

Madonna (entertainer)

Madonna is an American singer-songwriter, actress and entrepreneur. Born in Bay City, Michigan, she moved to New York City in 1977 to pursue a career in modern dance. After performing in the music groups Breakfast Club and Emmy, she released her debut album in 1983...

. He is the first artist in Finland to release two albums on the same date (New York and Rovaniemi); upon release, they held the top-two spots of the Finnish Albums Chart.

Albums

• Ensimmäinen (2004 - #1) - (loosely translated: The First)
• Ensimmäinen Deluxe (2004 - #3) - (loosely translated: The First Deluxe)
• Antti Tuisku (2005 - #1)
• Minun jouluni (2005 - #3) - (loosely translated: My Christmas)
• New York (2006 - #1)
• Rovaniemi (2006 - #2)
• Hengitän (2009 - #3) - (loosely translated: I'm breathing)
• Kaunis kaaos (2010) - (loosely translated: A Beautiful Chaos)

Singles

• "En halua tietää" (2004 - #1) - (loosely translated: I Don't Want to Know)
• "Yritä ymmärtää/Boom Boom" (2004 - #3) - (loosely translated: Try to Understand/Boom Boom)
• "Kahdestaan" feat. Jenni Vartiainen
  Jenni Vartiainen
  Jenni Mari Vartiainen is a Finnish pop singer. Before her professional musical endeavours, she was a figure skater in her teen-age years and attended the Kuopio Senior High of Music and Dance...
  
   (2004, radio promo) - (loosely translated: Just The Two of Us)
• "Tyhjä huone" (2005 - #1) - (loosely translated: An Empty Room)
• "Läpi jään/Yksityinen" (2005, promo) - (loosely translated: Through the Ice/Private)
• "Lämmin lumi peittää maan" (2005, radio promo) - (loosely translated: Warm Snow Covers the Land)
• "Sekaisin" (2006 - #2) - (loosely translated: Out of my mind)
• "Valo" (2006, radio promo) (loosely translated: Light)
• "Levoton" (2006, radio promo) (loosely translated: Uneasy)
• "Tunturibiisi" (2006, radio promo) (loosely translated: A Fell
  Fell
  “Fell” is a word used to refer to mountains, or certain types of mountainous landscape, in Scandinavia, the Isle of Man, and parts of northern England.- Etymology :...
  
   Song)
• "Juuret" (2009, radio promo) (loosely translated: Roots)
• "Viilto" (2009, radio promo) (loosely translated: A Gash)
• "En kiellä" (2009, radio promo) (loosely translated: I Won't Deny)
• "Atlantti" (2010, radio promo) (loosely translated: The Atlantic Ocean)

External links

• Official website