EXTRA - Biography

Erin's childhood
The youngest child of the Koivisto family was born in the middle of summer in 1977.
Erin's mom: Erin has always been happy and in a good mood. And a big flirt already in the age of three. She's also amazingly calm and balanced.
Erin's siblings are much older than she is. When she was three years old the family moved from Finland to Shannon, Ireland, which is Erin's mom's home country. Erin started her school in Ireland and she's still fully bilingual. After living few years in the "Green Island" they moved back in Helsinki, Finland and Erin started school in Vartiokylä's elementary school. Erin danced jazz and show and also riverdance in Ireland. She has also played piano for couple of years and even Finnish zither.
Erin made her artistic debut very early recording a play as a little squirrel. She went school in Vartiokylä and Puotila. She graduated from high school in 1996, in the beginning of Nylon Beat.


Nylon Beat 1995-2003
On 7th grade Erin and Jonna Kosonen became best friends, and when they were in high school, 1995, they decided to take part to television's song contest named Kiitorata. From the contest Jonna and Erin got a record deal and the huge rise of Nylon Beat into a Finnish pop Hall of Fame began. Nylon Beat has always separated opinions but especially in the beginning people had a hard time to accept or take the "in nose singing" pop's little squirrels seriously. Not until a real band came into the picture one started to realize that Jonna and Erin really can sing and does it live - the band became more respected. Nylon Beat released two albums outside of Finland, the first one, Nylon Moon in Japan and Korea, and the second, Last In Line at least in Germany and Korea, but the success didn't came in foreign countries. After eight years of Nylon Beat Jonna and Erin decided to separate and go to find some new challenges. The succesfull Nylon Beat was buried on New Years Eve 2003-2004.


Ireland's calling
When there wasn't Nylon Beat anymore, Erin did everything she couldn't before. She threw a couple of gigs in summer but stayed mostly out of publicity. On August she and her fiancé moved to Ireland for a year. They actually went back to school, studying some more music. After gaduating, Erin and Vesa have now moved back to Finland again and Erin have started to plan her first solo record.


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