Born on the plains of Botnia, Tiina has blessed her new hometown Helsinki with loads of happy-go-lucky attitude and folk music experience. Her fresh and open-minded character is also featured in her sound. Tiina can play a variety of instruments which makes her another one of those of us whose time and talent Ketsurat has to share with other bands. At festivals this causes her to miss the “after ski” with the rest of us as she hurries from one performance to another. Her calm personality is well needed and proven – we can recall only one occasion when she lost her temper (and it wasn’t one of those times when she’s carrying a back bag and an upright bass 3 kilometres to the gig venue). Tiina is always in a good swinging mood. Outside her music life she takes upon herself to be involved in common issues of our society. We would not be surprised if one day it was announced that all flaws and problems of the world had been solved – then we would be sure that Tiina had had something to do with it.