Soma Manuchar

Soma Manuchar (born 1987) is a Finnish singer, who came popular in the Finnish Eurovision in 2011. She participated the contest with the song Strong. Before that she had released two singles Janie and Crazy ´Bout The Boy. Her debut album Drifter was released in February 2011. Manuchar's latest single Making My Heart Beat was released in June 2011. The story: In 1991, a four year old Kurdish girl journeys hundreds of kilometres by foot from Northern Iraq to Turkey.

The story:
In 1991, a four year old Kurdish girl journeys hundreds of kilometres by foot from Northern Iraq to Turkey.

Together with her family - Kurdish guerrilla fighters - she is escaping from an infamous dictator's regime of terror and oppression. She has spent her early years in the midst of a war, where her only means of escape is listening and singing to her favourite songs by Michael Jackson and Ray Charles.

After two years spent hiding away from the Turkish government, the family finally ends up and settles down in Helsinki, Finland. There she starts school and falls in love with theatre. And, of course, keeps singing - always singing.

Ten years later, a major label executive is literally moved to tears after hearing a demo with her voice, and signs her two days later. She soon starts writing her debut album together with Finnish songwriters.

In Stockholm, Sweden, she finds a soul mate in the quirky electro producer Kim Wennerstr?m from the band DYNO, and now everything starts falling into place. They toil away long hours at the band's studio: she pours everything, every single feeling that little girl felt, into the music that in Kim's hands turns into a curious mix of fresh electro pop and 80's disco. One of the first songs they finish is the debut single "Janie".

It's a song about a lost girl.

Shattered but strong, vagabond but independent.
Runaway kid.
Drifter.
Her name is Soma Manuchar.