Katri Helena opens up to Anna about her feelings about quitting – 2024-04-24 11:02:48

Iskelmä legend Katri Helena, 78, announced last fall that the festival summer of 2024 will be “the last” for him. Katri Helena tells Anna that the date of her last concert has not yet been determined. However, he guarantees that it is “guaranteed to be the last”.

In the magazine, he reveals his deep feelings about the last steps of his life’s work.

– Now, when the last year of hard work is underway, I feel enormous gratitude. I pray in my mind: God, don’t let me screw up now. The louder the boom is going on, the more I add ice to the hat. However, popularity is always a fleeting phenomenon. Let’s see if this crest of a wave will bring my career to an end, says the artist.

– The longing will certainly still come, but at this point, quitting feels exactly like freedom. You could continue singing, but sitting in the car and waiting at concert venues is starting to get too heavy. I’d rather not do it than do my job badly, he continues.

The dates of Katri Helena’s last concerts have not yet been determined. INKA SOVERI

The singer’s mission in life has long been to be Katri Helena. The artist approaches the end of his life mission with an open mind, and does not think too much about life after it.

– What follows after a singing career does not concern me at all. If something new is still to be expected, it will come, he concludes.

The last concerts of Katri Helena, known as the blue and white voice, will be in both Finland and Sweden. In autumn, Katri Helena will also be seen for the first time in Helsinki at Tavastia.

– I would never have thought that my last years as a singer would be such a mess. But it’s nice like this, Katri Helena stated to Iltalehti at the beginning of the year.