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I have just seen the first of the Swedish national selections, Melodifestivalen, of Eurovision song contest 2010. I am really suprised. There were not one female composer, not one single female lyricist. Many of the songs were very like each other, many of them had phrases that I have heard before in other songs.  Where are catchy and interesting refrains and great verses? I am glad there was one talented songwriter that sang his own song,  Salem Al Fakir.

I wrote last year that many composers whose songs are picked for the contest, take the easy way out writing very simple refrains, with much repeating. The main question is anyway, how is the jury that is picking these songs? Thousends of song writers send their songs. I know many talented song writers that are never allowed to compete, their songs are never picked.  I know publishers that have stopped sending in songs because they are never picked. Year after year mostly the same composers’ songs are picked, no wonder that many of them sound like each other.

These national selections are very popular and sees by millions of people. I really long for a year when we will hear the best songs that people have sent to the contest, no matter who the song writers are, instead of songs that are written by famous song writers, well known by the jury.

Next year I would like to hear only songs by new song writers that have not been competing before. To the jury: Take your time and listen to all songs that are sent to you! That is your job!

SORRISO Hiding Place CD cover

You can hear Sorrisos new track on the Global voice! Listen to todays show with DJ Shawn from Kansas. Go to the Global voice Click on listen. The show begins with some adds.

I am listening now! Our new track Hiding Place is going to be aired as #11 on the show.

You can listen to the show on the Global Voice’s web page til next Wednesday the 3rd February.

The show is called Everything but the Kitchen Sink. It is in English and Portuguese. Listen to music from different corners of the world!

Sorriso is my new band together with John Baumann from Italy.

Our EP Hiding Place has just been released by Reya music. It has already been aired on radio in Canada, on TV6 in USA and now on radio the Global Voice!

I love winter. It is not so common, I think, it is more common to like summer or spring. I have always loved winter.  When I was a child, I lived in Finland and we had always real winters with cold degrees and a lot of snow there I lived. I loved to go skiing.

During many years I didn’t goskiing. In my home town in Sweden, where I have lived the most part of my life, the winters haven’t usually lasted that long. And when the snow came, during many years I didn’t know where my skiing equipment was. I envied every winter others that went skiing.

When I think about it now, it seems so stupid that I didn’t go skiing for many years!

Lots of snow fell a week before Chrismas. A new year came with new year’s resolutions and new possiblities.  I decided to look for my skiis in our store. And there, behind everything else, I found my skiis! I also found my ski sticks and my skiing boots. My skiing jacket and my skiing mittens were gone, my skiing cap, too:) Isn’t it strange that things just disappear, they are not stolen but they are just gone!:)

I had bought a new jacket last autumn. When my old skiing jacket was gone I spent one day sawing to improve my new one making it more suitable for skiing. I bought new skiing mittens. After 2 days I finally had my skiing equipment available and ready.

It was such an experience to go skiing again.  The first day we had at least 15 degrees below zero Celsius. To feel the cold wind on my cheeks, I really love it. I also noticed that my condition really needed to improve:)  I now go skiing every day. I love that I don’t need to envy others on the ski track any more, I am one of them, it makes me very happy! I hope that this winter that has been colder and longer that for decades in the whle country, will last as long as possible. The colder the better:) I know some of you don’t agree:) But I love winter.

It is so beautiful in forest where I ski. It is amazing to see all snowy trees. All nature looks wonderful covered with snow.

On facebook people send hearts to each other, silver hearts, golden hearts, bubbling hearts, summer hearts, treasured hearts, snowy hearts, thank you all for sending me many beautiful hearts. What about my heart? I must have a winter heart!

Did you make any New Year’s resolutions? I make every year. One of my resolutions was to write blog posts more often:)

When I am on my daily skiing tour I write blog posts all the time in my mind but when I come home, there is always so much happening, I am rehearsing new songs, making dinner, writing emails and messages to friends and fans and promoting my music. Too soon it is midnight and I am too tired to write a blog post. One of my New Year’s resolutions was to go to bed earlier. So, if I will keep that resolution, I shouldn’t stay up late and write blog posts:)

I am sorry to say that even the resolution about going to bed earlier has been very difficult to keep.

But I will try to write blog posts more often, it is for sure. And I will try to go to bed earlier:)

I wish every one a very happy year 2010! Tell me about your New Years resolutions. You are very welcome to write a blog comment.

I am very happy and proud about my new computer. I have really been upgraded:) My old computer was really the slowest one. Sometimes it took so long for me to open a Myspace page or send an email that I had time to do a lot of other things while I was waiting, to wash dishes or make my gym exercise program etc:) Yes, it is true! My old computer was really a lousy one.

Now I have a very fast computer. It is wonderful. Now I can visit Myspace and other pages with lots of grafic without any problem. To open a page and to go from page to page is really easy. I have now Windows 7 and Explorer 8. I have 3 hard drives and lots of memory. One of the 3 hard drives broke down but it has been restored by itself, it took 180 hours but at least I didn’t have to do anything. I am glad to have a computer that works for me:)’

Yes, there is one thing that I am not completely satisfied with, my computer switches the text size to a smaller one. Now when I write my blog post the text size is too small (but not when you see it on my blog page). When I write emails the text size is too small, too, in every mail box since I got my new computer. If somebody nows how to change the text size everywhere, maybe you can tell me how to do.

I have great news! The Italian artist John Baumann flew all the way from Italy to record one of my songs Hiding Place with me! He found me on the global web radio Last.fm for some months ago and asked me if he could record together with me. Of course I said yes.

Since then we have been planning our project, sending emails and mp3s to each other. It was very exciting  to make preparations for our recording and to meet each other for the first time! But when I saw John’s smiling face when we met, I knew this would work fine.

Next day we went to studio for recording and everything went fine. Our voices suite well together and we sound really great together. I can hardly wait to play the song for you, I hope it will be very soon.

Please help us to find a group name for our new group!

Summer is gone, it is now Autumn in Sweden. How my summer was ? Yes thanks, it was fine. I have worked very much with the Church Parliament election but now the election is over and I have finally more time for music and for my blog posts!

My trip to Finland was great, the weather was wonderful. For the third time, without planning it, I ended up in Tampere just that special night that is called the Night of Arts. I went to several concerts, it was a warm lovely night with Nordic light, so it was really wonderful. To sit in Tampere cathedral and listen to a beautiful soprano the last thing that night was great.

What happened to those young Golden eyes that I told about? The day after I wrote my blogpost about them there were only three of them left.  But those three made it through all dangers for young birds, and grew up and became more and more look a likes of their mother.

It is so funny that they really did recognise me. When I came to their little lake and called them they always came to me. They developped a kind of swimming style that made it possible for them to stay on the same spot without floating away so they could listen to everything I said without moving at all.  Their mother had left the lake for a long time ago and maybe I could be some kind of mother for them for a little while every day. When we had “talked enough” for that day they swam away and I continued my walk in the forest.

What about the owl? I was so certain about that the owl didn’t get any young birds last summer because I hadn’t seem them and I always find them if they are there. No one else had seen them either. That is why it was a big suprise for me that I met a guy in the forest yesterday that told me that he had seen the owl with 2 young birds high up in a tree  in June. It was nice to hear because it means that the pair of owls still like our City forrest and are certainly coming back even next year. I just can’t wait. I love those grey feather balls:)

Of course I am planning new music projects and I have already been recording in studio. I will very soon upload a new video here. I have written 8 new songs to lyrics by Gary Cornman from USA. Thank you Gary for great lyrics and for great team work!

Have a nice Autumn! And if the season is Spring in your country I wish you a nice Spring!

Hi friends and fans!

Annika, Sweden

Something is wrong with my gallery of fans and friends page, it is not possible to add more pictures there, so I start today another page, Gallery of  fans and friends 2! Welcome to visit and see the new pictures!

I have a new page, Gallery of fans and friends. You find it here You are very welcome to send your picture to maini(at)mainisorri.com

I will soon start a page Gallery of photos by fans and friends . If you have taken a picture of your country you are welcome to send it to my maini(at)mainisorri.com

Thank you for all your support, good to be your friend! See you soon!