New York, Circus and Eurovision

Hi there,

I just realized I never published this text I wrote in the beginning of the month. Here it is!

It's been a while since I updated my blog, but now I finally got a good moment to sit down and do so. Yesterday I went to a press release for the Eurovision competition.
 My song happened to be one of the 40 out of 500 that got picked out. I was quite surprised when I heard the news.
10 days before the deadline I didn't have a song to send in and no time to make a new one, so I was looking for someone with a song but no artist.
Two days later Niklas Rosström invited me to do the vocals for a song he was about to write together with Paul Oxley and Janne Hyöty. The guys were still in the middle of the song writing session as I was sitting on the train.
 I had no idea what to expect when I went straight from the train station to the studio. The style of the song was quite different than of my own music but it was a great and challenging experience to just throw myself into the feeling and doing something completely different.
 Now they're picking out 12 songs out of the 40 depending on which songs gets the most votes. If you feel like supporting me in the competition, you're more than welcome to check out the song and "like" it ("tykkään"),  through this link.

http://satumaa.yle.fi/umk/kilpailijat-2012/jessica-wolff-better

Other than that I just came home from an absolutely amazing week in New York. As I mentioned earlier in my blog I got invited to a show organized by Fm World Charity.
Normally I wouldn't buy a ticket for just one show but my intuition kicked in and said I needed to be there. It was totally worth it.

Biting the charity guy might not be the best way to get started

The guy who invited me to the show was super nice and drove me around to different places on this awesome bike

The organization is not just a normal charity. It was created by a great producer called Eric Gast who has worked with many different artists. They focus on connecting music with their work which has been one of my main goals since I started with music.
After the show I had some meetings with the guys and now we're setting up plans for how we can work together in the future. Hopefully we see them in Finland soon. Here's a link, check it out!

Window view from Brooklyn

www.fmworldcharities.org/

My original plan was to go to Sweden straight from New York to write some songs but my plans took a different direction.
A week before I left I got invited to do some acrobatics, stunts, singing and Kung Fu in a show called Cirkus Ankdamm.

A night in the city

Today we had the first show. It went surprisingly well after traveling for 24 hours, waking up in a heavy jet lag and do rehearsals for the first time one day before the opening night.
The only thing that didn't work out too well, was when I forgot a couple of punches and improvised by throwing the circus director on the floor. Ups.... I should buy him a beer or something to make up for the bruises.

All the best,

Jessica

Adventure with Squishy

Hi,


I've been on an adventure today with Squischy. First we went to Radio X3M. I didn't realize we were supposed to be a part of a prank and scare the hell out of a girl.
Apparently one of the radio girls had had two of the guys waxing their legs in the studio, so now they looked for revenge by having me walking in with Squischy around my shoulders. Check it out!

http://arenan.yle.fi/video/1321012770868

After some snake therapy we continued to floors up to YleX for the second radio interview. Squischy was very admired and behaved super well.

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=10150402873636489



Cheers,

Jessica

Hi everyone,

The gig in Tampere went well and felt even better. I moved around more than normally and cared less about the sound. Too bad I forgot my earplugs.
It was also my first time at Music&Media and it definitely won't be the last.
Now I'm on my way to New York. Since I had 4h to kill before the next flight from Stockholm I decided to go to the gym. At the trainstation they adviced me to go to a gym which is connected to a hotel.
I went to the hotel and when I asked for the gym and tried to pay, she said it's free and gave me a key. I quickly realized it was the wrong hotel and they had mistaken me for a hotel guest. Why not?

Cheers,

Jessica

Alot of action!

 Hi everyone,

There's a lot of action going on right now. I have a gig at Music&Media on Friday. It's the most important gig so far since there are music industry people from all around the world. I just have to hope that the right people will see my gig, and make sure it's a good one.
After that I have about one day to get home, pack and go to New York for some important meetings and to see a big show by FM World Charities. On the way home I'm making a quick stop in Stockholm to write a song together with a couple of great songwriters. I can't complain!

Cheers,

Jessica

Ps. Check out these pics! I went out with my friend Mikko Löppönen to do a random photo shoot just for the fun of it. We didn't have any lights, a make-up artist or other assistance.  It was a good experience but a very cold one. I hope you like them!

Trip down the memory lane at 4 am

"Morning has broooo-ken, like the first mo-o-oorning".
It's been ringing in my head since I got up. ( Its 4am and Im on my way to the airport ).
Along with some Italian Arias it was one of the first songs I learned when I started taking singing lessons as a 12 year old.
My teacher was a 75 year old opera singer. She tried to brainwash me with opera. It didn't quite work. Everytime she started to sing a beautiful piece, I put my fingers in my ears. How polite!
Don't get me wrong, I really loved that old wise woman. Opera wasn't just my thing, but I sure learned a lot of good things. She build my roots.
Three years later she died and I moved on to pop, musicals, CVT and eventually found my way to pop/rock after singing ballads for 10 years.

Cheers,

Jessica

Cime Beauty House

Hi everyone,

www.cime.fi

I went to Cime Beauty House yesterday who are also my sponsors. They make sure I keep my hair in shape. It's good that someone does because otherwise it pretty much stays the way it looks after I get up in the morning.
When I was a kid I hated going to the hairdresser because they always cut my hair short! I guess it had to do with the fact that I didn't understand Finnish as a kid.
So, when I got a bit older I stopped going, cause I didn't trust hairdressers. I went maybe once in a year or so.
When I went to Cime the first time I was a bit braver. I decided to take a risk and told them to do what they want except for cutting it short. The result really surprised me.
Since then it's been chill-time to go there. I just have my coffee, work or write lyrics while they're taking care of my hair. They have a pretty cool concept. I don't think I've been to a salon with so many services before.

Cheers,

Jessica