Broken relationships have taught Johanna Pakose, 47, one important thing – 2024-04-01 14:11:41

Artist Johanna Pakonen packed her backpack in Oulu this morning and flew to Helsinki. As a child of spring and a laughing person, Johanna smiles happily when she arrives in the capital region for filming and an interview.

– The other passengers must have looked in wonder that I was smiling and singing to myself right from the morning, Pakonen laughs.

Pakonen, 47, is happy with his current life situation, even though the last year has included many different changes, accidents and also sadness.

Johanna Pakonen’s daughter Nelli was born in 2012. Inka Soveri

Last spring, when the relationship ended, Pakonen asked Nellie-from her daughter, where she would like to move. Mother and daughter made the decision together that it is good for them to be and live in Pakonen’s birthplace in Oulu.

Pakonen, who started gigging at the age of 19, has never before lived a so-called “normal everyday life”, which would consist of precise routines, hobbies and regular time spent with his family. However, things are different now.

– Now my everyday life consists of waking up at seven, making coffee and sending the child to school. After that I do my own chores, do laundry and go to the store and work and in the afternoon I pick up the child from school. We do homework, study for exams, I throw him to practice or I go to practice myself and in the evening we go to bed together. I have never lived like this, this is the best! Pakonen is happy.

Warm intervals

Lighthouse and trailer. With those terms, Pakonen describes the relationship between mother and daughter.

– We are together all the time. Very closely, Pakonen describes.

Pakonen has always wanted to teach his daughter that all emotions can be shown.

– A lot of everything has happened in our lives. Both of us are good at articulating whether we are happy or sad and if we are sad or angry, why.

– Even children sense all kinds of things, and basically they just want their parents to be okay. But I don’t think all things belong to a child, or especially to such a small one who doesn’t understand everything, he continues.

During his life, Pakone has had a few important relationships, each of which has raised him in their own way. Pakonen is also grateful for each of his relationships.

Pakone has never had the need to search for a new relationship. This is especially influenced by the fact that his friends and daughter give Pakose everything he basically wants from life.

– I have never been one to jump from one relationship to another. I don’t need to be with anyone because I should just be in a relationship. When I got divorced at the age of 39, I got to know myself again and really learned to be with myself. I said then that I am really good company for myself and I enjoy being alone.

– I’ve also learned that you shouldn’t look back. When you have dealt with things yourself and know how to think a little about your own words and actions, after that you can just move on, Pakonen opens.

My own bubble

22 years ago, in July 2002, Pakonen was crowned tango queen at Seinäjoki. However, Pakonen is no longer identified as a tango queen, as she has mostly recorded percussion-oriented music.

Although after the title, Pakonen has been a well-known person in the public eye and has appeared both on concert stages and on television, he still feels that he has been able to live a fairly peaceful life in his own bubble.

Pakonen is especially happy that he has been able to speak in public about matters that are important to him, such as the loss of twin boys he experienced in 2010 and the plight of the cultural sector during the corona virus.

– Of course, publicity has defined life. Although I have the right to have fun and a normal life, sometimes you have to think about what you do in public. I have also had to teach my child that he too is watched in a different way because he is my child. I’ve said I’m sorry about that, but that’s just the way it is.

Pakonen could not believe at the age of 19 what kind of career he would create for himself.

– When I started, I couldn’t have known that my career would last this long. I certainly hope that it will continue from now on. However, I believe that I have always been able to be my happy self in public, Pakonen concludes with a smile.

Makeup, hair and styling: Ida Jokikunnas. Clothing details: Dresses: Selected Femme/Second Hand, denim jacket: Carmakoma Only, shoes: Steve Madden and Unisa, jewelry: Ibero. Shooting location: Scandic Grand Central Helsinki