Kaarina Valovirta-Lahti


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Kaarina has a beautiful and soft, yet vibrant, alto voice which Ketsurat uses both for solos and to deepen the sound of the arrangements. She is an amazingly quick to absorb new things: she usually has learned the words, pronunciation and even translated the foreign song into a story in Finnish while the rest of us are still trying to pick up the melody. And if her professional talent and effort fail to unwrap the song, no worries, Kaarina will work it out even if it calls for finding a needle in a hay stack – or a Bulgarian taxi driver in Helsinki. Yet another one of Kaarina’s talents is her ability not to get sucked in into mindless talk-a-thons at practise. This usually helps us get back on track a lot faster. It’s a blessing that there is at least one of us who doesn’t always have that one “you gotta hear this, guys” –story. Kaarina used to travel the world and stay in different places, some longer than others. There days it’s only music that takes her around the world as her family keeps her in place. Kaarina has a contagious laugh and a princess-like hair which, like everything else in her life, she tries to keep in order. But sometimes the order is lost; it must be that someone else has been tampering with her calendar.