Maini Sorri has won Emubands/Alchemy Mastering competition in UK. The prize is that Maini’s next single after Hold Me will be mastered by Alchemy Mastering in London. Alchemy has over the years worked with lots of famous artists and bands, among them Paul McCartney, Guns ´n´ Roses and Oasis.

Alchemy contacted Maini the same day as the name of the winner of the competition was announced. Maini look forward to co-work with the world famous Alchemy Mastering Team. She is happy and proud for winning the prize.

EmuBands is a popular music distributer in UK.

Mainis new video Hold Me is now in heavy rotation on The Bobby T Show in USA. The Bobby T Show was the winner of two national Billboard Music Video Awards in Pop & Dance categories. Bobby T Show has also been awarded “Best Programming Award”. The show airs from coast to coast,  from Los Angeles to New York.

Bobby T Tanory which has over 30 year experience in radio/TV is the host and producer of the show. There have been hundreds of TV interviews of artists and celebrities over the years.

Sidewalks TV  in California has confirmed that they will add Hold Me video to future reel. Sidewalks Entertainment show is produced in the San Francisco Bay Area and presents celebrity interviews, music and rising performers. It features many popular and classic stars, such as Harrison Ford, Salma Hayek, Jane Seymour etc , and singers Martina MdBride, Kelly Rowland, Daughtry etc. etc.

Sidewalks Entertainment can be seen in Northern and Central California on Comcast Hometown Network, KOTR, KQSL, KCRT, KCTH, and Channel 27 in Fairfield, and  Comcast Hometown in Manitowoc, Wisconsin.

Press release June 13th 2013

Mainis new music video Hold Me is very successful. Maini has got great reports during many weeks from her promoter in Hollywood Trilogy Music Group. It takes a lot of time to follow all links to TV stations and streaming sites that have added Hold Me.

“It is interesting that the same show can reach so many people via lots of TV channels”, Maini says.

Maini has seen her video on  Style-City Music Presents TV show, season 24 episode 3 on Blip TV, located in New York but the show has also been shown on over 100 TV stations in America and around the world,  among them My channel in London with a reach of  9 million TV watchers and also on Cape Town TV  in South Africa.

The oldest music video show in Virginia USA, Karamel Video Jams has Hold Me in frequent rotation. The new Knockout Live TV in Arizona, USA, “the new world leader in Blue-ray quality streaming entertainment”, will use Hold Me video in a new HD variety show, taping now.

Among other channels in USA that show Mainis Hold Me video are WTR TV, The Sound Chamber On Aurora 8, the TV show Video Madness on DCTV in California.

Mainis video is added to lots of streaming sites, like Exposed Vocals, This is 50 Top Entertainment & Hip-hop Community, Shamata TV,  RNRTV, Ovation TV and many many more.

Hold Me video is also in rotation on Hiphop R&B Dance Top40 TV/radio station 98.2 The Beat in Los Angeles.

The video reaches also car dealerships, electronic stores, restaurants, hotels, and nightclubs in California and Nevada via a retail pool.

There is also a Hold Me radio campaign in UK throughout the summer.

“We’re bringing you some of the best music videos from all over the world” Style-City Music writes here

Review – Hold Me      May 21st 2013

I have opportunity to listen to the music of Maini Sorri, an Independent musician from Sweden, is my opinion that Maini has an great talent to perform and to sing with a clear and very suitable voice, her music can involved the listener with joy surrender by emotions.

– “ Hold Me ” Strong and well define introduction, strong rhythm well keep, easy melody to listen to it, excellent arrangement, great mix and very suitable music, the lyrics message expresses great feeling, with a well define line in combination with a great, and well tune voice, Maini make this melody a great hit, this melody is a joy to the ears. Vocals and music flows just perfect, Maini transmit to the listener her emotion. Is my opinion that this song has everything music, lyrics, vocals and harmonies that a song needs to become a hit. This Song will be a great addition to any music lover library.

This song will be recommended at Newusb, to be add to the Play list and and also to the request list for our friend and fans enjoyment .

Review by Gonzalo Arzamendi, Arzuk Productions & Enterteinment, California

Read the review here

Mainis catchy dance single Hold Me is available from Australia to USA. Follow the links to Hold Me pages in different stores around the world:

Maini – Hold Me at JB Hi Fi (Australia)

Amazon

Amazon UK 

itunes:  itunes USA  itunes UK    itunes Sweden

itunes Finland    itunes Norway   itunes Italy    itunes Denmark   itunes Germany  itunes Spain  itunes  Canada

or click the little flag top down right on the page and choose the flag of your country to come to itunes in your country.

Spotify

7digital

Deezer

Emusic

MnDigital

Nokia

Play.com

Sony

WiMP (Norway)

Bloom.fm

Google

We7

Listen to Hold Me, it is in the player here on Mainis website.

See the great Maini – Hold Me – Official Music Video, produced by video director W.A. Henderson from Los Angeles, here

Hold Me was released by Reya music, Sweden on May 7th 2013.

Maini’s new single Hold Me is now released and available worldwide on iTunes. Here are links to Hold Me on Itunes:  Itunes USA  Itunes Canada  Itunes UK  Itunes Sweden  Itunes Norway  Itunes Denmark  Itunes Spain Itunes Germany  Itunes Finland   Itunes Italy

If you don’t find the Itunes store in your country among the links, follow this advice:

1. Click any of Itunes links. 2.Scroll to top down the page.  3.Click the little flag top down right. 4.Choose your country’s flag and you get to Itunes in your country. 5. Search Maini – Hold Me.

Maini’s new catchy dance single Hold Me will be released on May 7th.  A must see Hold Me music video will be promoted to MTV and all over the USA by Trilogy Music Group in Hollywood.

The music video was directed by the video director W.A. Henderson from Los Angeles. W.A Henderson sent a message to Maini on Christmas Eve 2012 and told her that he would like to shoot  music videos for her.

The beautiful Hold Me music video that you can watch time after time stars beautiful Mali Monae and Michael Martinez from Los Angeles, USA.

See Maini – Hold Me – Official video here

Label is Reya music, Sweden.

Maini has, as always, written the music, while the lyrics are by Gary Cornman from the USA and the remix is by Carsten Lehmann from Germany.

Maini Sorri is being recognized around the world.

Sorri rocks in England.

Maini Sorri is known from Sisuradio Musalista CDs. She shared second place in an international contest, the Global Voice Singing Competition Final. Maini’s contribution “Moira” is her own composition.

– I must say that things have gone great in the recent years. I’m delighted and encouraged by positive feedback, says Maini Sorri.
She says that she has fans around the world today. – It is nice to be involved in various contests and receive recognition.

Maini Sorri biggest hit is called Let me do your time.
Sorri’s mentor in Global Voice competition, is the Swedish musician and producer Jorgen Hansson that has received many awards.

Maini was interviewed by Johanna Dickson.

Published: Sunday, January 6 at 07:30, Sisu news

Translated by Maini and Google translater.

See the original article and listen to the interview in Finnish here

Before Christmas there was the final of the Global Voice Singing Competition in live broadcast. In the final there were 5 artists. They came from USA, Australia, Germany, Finland and Sweden. All participants had co-worked during the Autumn with their mentor to produce the best possible contibrution to the final.

During the show all 5 contributions were aired. The international jury consisting of Ivy Temple, Dennis Somers from England and Nessa Glen from USA commented each song and asked the artists some questions.

Maini Sorri’s contribution to the final was a new original song Moira. Maini has written the music and the lyrics are written by Gary Cornman. The remix is by Mainis mentor in the contest, Jörgen Hansson from Sweden, the award winner and a talented multi instrumentalist.

The comments that Maini got from the jury were  “very good“, “very pretty” och a “nice voice“.

At the end of the show the jury’s votes were counted and the winner was announced. The winner was Johanna Herranen from Finland with her contribution The Circle of the Old.

Maini got a shared second place in the contest.

The Global Voice writes on their website:

“Many thanks to the five vocalists and to the mentors, Kelly Sapergia, Steve Matzura, Jorgen Hansson and Chrissie Cochrane for providing entries of such a high standard for the competition”.

“Maini Sorri has to be Sweden’s best kept secret as far as British audiences are concerned. The woman from Uppsala’s profile is really only known to the minority dedicated lovers of Scandinavian music in the U.K. and that is a shame as her album Someday: Volume Two is a sweet, intelligent and enjoyable piece of work.

Ms. Sorri’s vocals glide through the songs with a sense of finely tuned beauty and whilst it is difficult enough to change the written lyrics of one language to another, to change a style could be deemed as an even harder challenge but Maini Sorri provides a great awareness in her voice of what can grab the listener carefully by the hand and touch their heart with finely tuned sentiment.

Like the current fascination for Scandinavian Noir which has crossed from one side of the North Sea to the other with an almost pulsating appreciation, Maini has tapped into a vibe with her songs of innocence and a devastating anguish with Only A Memory, the delightful Oh Echo, the wonderful child-like despair of I Shouldn’t Have Trusted You and the exquisite Lahden Yksin (A Finnish version of the song I Am Leaving) which also gets a superb airing on the album.

The album certainly deserves attention and so does Maini Sorri, it certainly cannot be easy for any singer or band from that part of the world as they constantly have the image of Sweden’s most famous musical export constantly bandied around them. The world has moved on since the heady days of Abba-mania but in some ways the music of that nation never seems to get a look in without someone always asking if they will be as successful.

No matter what Ms. Sorri does next, this album will be a crowning glory of Scandinavian music”.

Ian D. Hall

Liverpool Sound and Vision Rating * * * *

Maini Sorri, Someday: Volume Two. Album Review

December 18, 2012

You can read the review at Liverpool Sound and Vision here