Ville Köngäs, the youngest participant within the tango market: “I obtained a spark” – 2024-07-15 21:39:30

Ville Köngäs, 24, competed on the Seinäjoki Tango market over the weekend. Antti Rekila

First-time participant of the tango market Ville Köngäs fortunately solutions his cellphone from Seinäjoki. The youngest participant of your entire competitors, a 24-year-old from Torni, has behind him a “loopy tango week”.

It is best to pack your issues and head again north.

– Completely superb feeling, Köngäs states.

The musician, who graduated from the Pop & Jazz conservatory Lapland final 12 months, has his first recollections of Tango market when he was 10 years previous. Her aunt participated within the competitors and her journey was adopted intently among the many household.

The primary reminiscence that vividly sticks in my thoughts is Teemu Roivainen’s reign from 2014.

– Large orchestra and the whole lot. It needed to be adopted and it has remained within the Tango market without end.

A part of the explanation for getting into the competitors is that Köngäs want to act as a task mannequin for a lot of visually impaired individuals and break down prejudices. Köngäs has been blind since delivery.

– A visible impairment isn’t an impediment to its success, and the northern location is only a setback, Köngäs laughs.

Köngäs beforehand thought of taking part within the tango competitors along with his fellow college students.

– This 12 months it felt prefer it may be the best time to take part. I put the qualifying video to play a bit within the spirit of experimenting to see how far we might go and the way far we might attain the finals, he says.

The singer’s journey within the competitors was not sufficient till the tremendous last.

– It wasn’t actually a disappointment. I did my greatest and it wasn’t sufficient this 12 months. The crown went to the best man, Köngäs commented.

– There was such a spark left from this 12 months. I feel that subsequent 12 months we’ll go full blast once more.

Within the competitors, he carried out a tango composed by Unto Mononen Stars over the ocean. Based on the singer, the music is a phenomenal love story.

– I’m admittedly an previous soul and a little bit of a romantic in my very own life.

Köngäs says that he obtained quite a lot of encouragement. Encouraging suggestions has come from the viewers, the jury and fellow singers. Based on the musician, tango persons are a really warm-hearted group.

– One even got here to speak and mentioned that he had come all the way in which from Rovaniemi to observe and cheer. I felt that Lapland is strongly concerned.

Köngäs says which you can really feel the presence of the viewers from the stage.

– I’ve realized to acknowledge reactions, when the viewers begins to heat up. You may’t actually describe it, however I can really feel how the viewers is concerned and its heat.

From the top of the summer time, he’ll take to the stage, amongst different issues, within the context of Meri-Lap pageant headline gigs. Within the fall, he’ll begin coaching in music manufacturing. The sector focuses on singing and producing music.

– Get the band collectively and go to gigs, Köngäs continues exhaustively along with his plans for the longer term.