Pave Maijanen
Good morning, kittens & dawgs! I am considering placing this segment on hold in February. It’s getting to be a bit too much to juggle the Saturday post. I thinking about moving my Saturday mewsic to a weekday under a new meme name. Anywho, this is the last Saturday of January and with it, I will end my Finish mewsic bands with Pave Maijanen!
At the age of 6, Pave shown an in mewsic when learned how to play the harmonica. He began his career in the 60s and played with several bands with his most popular known is Mielikummitus, the background band of singer Kristian.
Pave’s first solo single in 1975 was is guitar jazz Fever cover song launching a new band for him that he called, “Pave’s Mistakes” which recorded two albums. The second, Pidä huolta, Pave composed and interrupted his first Finish recording. The title song on the album became one of his best hits in 1981.
The 80s were Pave’s best years. Things went south when the decade flipped. However, by the end of the 90s, Pave was in the limelight again with “Mestarit Areenalia”, other than him, the mewsic group comprised Kirka, Hector, and Pepe Willberg. They sold out the Finnish ice hockey halls and Pavel also pulled together a concert by him at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium making him the first Finnish artist to ever do so.
What did you think of this artist? I hope you’ll tweet the mews to your friends, inviting them to check out his mewsic.
[tweetthis]Listen to the #Finnish mewsician Pave Maijanen this morning on Saturday Songsuasion! #music[/tweetthis]
That’s a wrap for this week. I’ll close by leaving you with Pave’s YouTube Top Tracks playlist to enjoy.
Thanks for making me a part of your weekend and I hope to see ya on Monday for Mewsic Moves Me.
Have a songsational Saturday!
8 Comments
greyzoned/angelsbark
Hmm, I like him! I really liked the song by Mestarit Areenalia and am enjoying Lahtisitko. Thanks for the introduction!
Have an awesome musical weekend 🙂
Michele at Angels Bark
Cathy Kennedy
Michele, you’re welcome! I’m glad you came by to listen to my last Finnish mewsician this month. I enjoyed bringing something different to my readers through this segment and I probably will spotlight more international talents at another point. Have a good week and I’ll be seeing you soon!
McGuffy Ann
Interesting! Have a great weekend. Hugs.
Cathy Kennedy
Annie, thanks! Thanks for giving Pave a chance!
Thomas Anderson
Hi, Cathy!
I’m happy to see that you decided to “Finnish” the month of January with another mewsic act from Finland. 🙂
I never heard of Pave but I enjoyed this selection of tracks from his career. I particularly like the powerful, full bodied progressive rock sound of his more recent recordings released from the late 90s to the 2010s. Two of the songs that caught my ear are “Levoton Tuhkimo” (“Restless Cinderella”) and “Elaman Nalka” (“Hunger of Life”).
Thank you for another songsational Saturday to close out the first month of 2017, dear friend Cathy!
Cathy Kennedy
Tom, I agree with you, I prefer Pave’s later recordings over his earlier work but event his older stuff is good. I’m relaxing with DH around the house today. It’s a beautiful sunny day but the wind is wicked and with my ear problems then I have no desire to be outdoors. 🙁 Thanks for the visit and have a good weekend, my friend. I’ll see you soon!
Handmade Jewelry Haven
Sometimes our life ‘catches up’ with us and we must take a breather.
All is good 🙂
– Lisa
Cathy Kennedy
Lisa, Life definitely catches us fast and blogging becomes not-so-fun when it looks like a chore. That causes blog burn-out and I don’t want to find myself taking a long hiatus to recover. Thanks for understanding and for visiting. Have a good weekend!