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Vanilla Ninja on Tour!

Die Ninjas werden laut katrin im Juni 2008 in Estland auf Tour gehen. Geplant sind 10 Konzerte. Möglich ist dies jetzt endlich, da sie ihr Markenzeichen nun (fast) wieder haben.

Trademark will given back in march

The buyer of Ninjas' trademark: "You can't have depts to life"
They had to give it back to them on Valentine's day, but they couldn't just because they didn't have a free club, where they could have a party. They are gonna make a party, when girls come back from Chile, somewhere in middle of the March, but they won't say when and where exactly yet.

Quelle: Love-Ninjas

Offizielle VN Werbung

Katrin über ihren Indien Trip

Katrin ist zurück aus Indien und hat ihren Fans einen Brief geschrieben:

My trip to India was very adventurous - I hiked from Northern-Goa to Southern-Goa which is very beautiful with its paradise beaches. I met big monkeys, great peacocks, dolphins, giant eagles, sleepy cows, friendly dogs and croaking crows every day. The sun was shining all the time and it was super great to surf with the surfboard. I did hatha-yoga every day and got some teachings from a yoga-guru. I really enjoyed it! I drank fresh juice-shakes (banana-coconut-orange was the best!) and ate fresh shrimps. Lenna joined me at one moment for a while. It was a very fun and cool trip, India is a very different country for its culture and history, everyone should visit it.

Lenna in Au Tööle

VN Interview for chilean website

Vanilla Ninja brings rock to the Quinta
(Quinta Vergara is the park where the festival is held).
An Estonian trio wants to be a surprise of Vina del Mar Festival. By Francisco Díaz-Valdés.

Three beautiful and blonde women in one band? A lot of people thought that Vanilla Ninja is a new band, commercially armed, who each time fall down. But this Estonian band has already shown, with almost 6 years of career and 4 successful albums, that they're much more than this and that's why they're ready to come for Festival of Vińa del mar, where they participate in the international song competition.

There's a possibility that someone will say that they are only pretty faces, but they can defend their proposal. “We're those who started the band. We knew each other in high school. We're a band that write their own songs and we do really live performances. We have got something to say, a message to communicate and our difference. Bands who are only commercially, usually can't do anything only on their own and their success tends to fade after a short time”. They explained through an e-mail.

They're happy to come to our country, which in their minds is like “a country with incredible climate and a natural beauty. Now it's winter in Estonia, pretty cold, with a lot of snow and the sun rises hardly any. You can imagine yourselves how excited we are because of coming to your country in which we'll be able to enjoy a bit of summer.”

In Europe they've already been compared to Good Charlotte, Lenny Kravitz, Pink and Black Eyed Peas but that does not leave anything for calm. “It's always very interesting to get a new audience, and why not Latin American? It seems to be warm, friendly crowded. We didn't have time to go there” they said.

They have already put fear by the famous monster of the Quinta Vergara (audience), but they want to show that rock music is also able to win the competition generally tied to more romantic part of the world. “We're trying to be ourselves and give the best of us by our music. Maybe also in Chile our appearance will seem atractive and interesting. We've got a proposal with the music that we move to you. That's why it's the best way to conquer new audience by the doing something better: touch of good rock music.” After Chile the band plans to visit Brazil, the place where they've already released CDs few years ago.

Pending arrival is on 18th February at 09:00 am and we give you a video of song “Birds Of Peace” with which they're participating in a contest.

Quelle: Love-Ninjas

VN Interview for chilean website

Vanilla Ninja brings rock to the Quinta
(Quinta Vergara is the park where the festival is held).
An Estonian trio wants to be a surprise of Vina del Mar Festival. By Francisco Díaz-Valdés.

Three beautiful and blonde women in one band? A lot of people thought that Vanilla Ninja is a new band, commercially armed, who each time fall down. But this Estonian band has already shown, with almost 6 years of career and 4 successful albums, that they're much more than this and that's why they're ready to come for Festival of Vińa del mar, where they participate in the international song competition.

There's a possibility that someone will say that they are only pretty faces, but they can defend their proposal. “We're those who started the band. We knew each other in high school. We're a band that write their own songs and we do really live performances. We have got something to say, a message to communicate and our difference. Bands who are only commercially, usually can't do anything only on their own and their success tends to fade after a short time”. They explained through an e-mail.

They're happy to come to our country, which in their minds is like “a country with incredible climate and a natural beauty. Now it's winter in Estonia, pretty cold, with a lot of snow and the sun rises hardly any. You can imagine yourselves how excited we are because of coming to your country in which we'll be able to enjoy a bit of summer.”

In Europe they've already been compared to Good Charlotte, Lenny Kravitz, Pink and Black Eyed Peas but that does not leave anything for calm. “It's always very interesting to get a new audience, and why not Latin American? It seems to be warm, friendly crowded. We didn't have time to go there” they said.

They have already put fear by the famous monster of the Quinta Vergara (audience), but they want to show that rock music is also able to win the competition generally tied to more romantic part of the world. “We're trying to be ourselves and give the best of us by our music. Maybe also in Chile our appearance will seem atractive and interesting. We've got a proposal with the music that we move to you. That's why it's the best way to conquer new audience by the doing something better: touch of good rock music.” After Chile the band plans to visit Brazil, the place where they've already released CDs few years ago.

Pending arrival is on 18th February at 09:00 am and we give you a video of song “Birds Of Peace” with which they're participating in a contest.

Quelle: Love-Ninjas

Lenna und Piret bei Club Prive

Piret hatte einen Auto Unfall!

Piret hatte ihre Geburtstagsfeier mit ihren Freunden ausfallen lassen, weil sie einen Auto Unfall in Tallinn hatte. Sie war Beifahrer und, genau so wie der Fahrer, wurde nicht verletzt. Sie wollte über den Unfall nicht reden aber sie gestand, dass ihr Auto mehr beschädigt wurde als das andere.
Sie hat es mit einem Schrecken überstanden.

Piret for Stiina

Piret said which are her five favourite things for Stiina magazine!

1. Start from yourself! (Alusta Iseendast!). It is MTV's world saving campaign, which calls all to consume wisely. See the project at www.mtveesti.ee/alusta.
2. Grammy and Brit Awards ceremony. World's most prestiges awards - Grammys will be given this year on February 10th. The most nominees have Amy Winehouse and Kanye West! Five weeks later will be Brit Awards (this year leading by Arctic Monkeys, Foo Fighters and Leona Lewis).
3. February. Keep in mind that February is a friends month. Therefore do all good things for your friends: invite them to your place at Valentine's Day, make a nice meal or bake a cake. (of course you should respect and remember your friends all year around. So suprises are welcome in March as much as in February).
4. Song Biffy Clyro "Who's Got A Match". I would say only one word - super! I think this song will soon attack MTW's Rock Chart, and if my hunch isn't wrong, then I think "Who's Got A Match" soon will be in first place.
5. Sweets: blueberries. Since my grandfather is a forest walker and blueberrie picker, theres no lack of blueberries in my freezer. It's good, because from blueberries you can make so much tasty desserts, wich i have made a lot lately. Blueberries are very tasty and healthy.

Quelle: Love-Ninjas

VN Interview

Today in the newest update of Terra.cl appeared an interview with the girls in the zone of Festival del Vińa 2008. The whole interview you can find by clicking here. You can find there also surprising gallery of Vanilla Ninja, which counts over 130 pictures! As always you can read the translation below. I'd like to thank Hector once again for a link :).

An unusual trio promises to revolutionize the competition: "We are much more than a beautiful appearance"

Coming from, for us unknown country - Estonia, this group has made their name by winning festivals in Europe and now they come to ours!

SANTIAGO, February 6 . - For a years we're trying to regain the level of music competition of Song Festival of Vińa del Mar. For this 2008 version, whether that will become a reality is still unknown, but we can anticipate that bunch of competitors will shine with their own lights with three attractive girls. It's about Vanilla Ninja, a group that is representing Estonia. It was born more than 5 years ago (the group, not them), Lenna Kuurmaa (voice), Piret Järvis (guitar and choirs) and Katrin Siska (keyboards), started by winning festivals in Europe and they've already got 4 successful albums, two dvds and status of most successful pop group of Estonia and Central Europe. Finishing, they're pretty beautiful and ensure an attract attention.

We don't know much about Estonia and your music stage. How does it feel to come to a country so distant and different as Chile?

- For us it is also surprising. No other Estonian band has made presentations in a country as far away for us as Chile is, but on the other hand we feel fortunate to be recognized by people from a music industry as Chilean Broken Records International and that its producer, Hector Faune have invited us to participate in the Festival of Vińa del Mar. That's why we are very excited that we have contacted and we can visit Chile.

You jumped to fame thanks to your participation in the Eurovision Festival. Here sou will also be in a Festival. Do you believe it can also mean to make the jump here in South America?

- We hope that. It would be great to have more Latin American fans. During Festival we hope to know fans from Argentina, Brazil and Chile who knew us through Eurovision. It is a fact that Vanilla Ninja achieved greater fame with our participation in the Eurovision Song Festival in 2005, as currently we participate in the largest Latin American festival. We think that is a great opportunity for us to get to know a new audience. We hope to jump right into this market with our completely different proposal, moving away from a traditional female band.

Do you think that your experience in such festivals gives you an advantage over the other competitors?

- We don't know other competitors and neither their music nor where they come from, so it is hard to say if this will be playing advantage. But we can say that in the competition terms, we will give our best on the stage and we'll use our talent and spark in the best way we can. Besides that, we think that each of our performances, either in front of 100 million viewers or of a smaller group of fanatics, prepares us as artists and we've been happy to have lived two experiences so far. Although we must admit that it doesn't mean success. Our trip to Chile is a completely new experience and that's why we don't know how the audience will react to our music after and before our performance. But definitely we'll give our best to make things right.

What has been the key to your success? Do you feel that being very attractive girls has helped a lot?

- Thanks for a compliment, but we are sure that we are much more than a pretty appearance, although we have caused a lot of attention for that reason. Our fans have been faithful for quality of our performances, for the music we make and the message that we give, besides that we can seem to be attractive for the audience. That's why we believe that the key to our success is probably the fact that our concept is unique. Not many other female bands can say that on the stage they play a powerful rock and touch their own instruments live. At least in Europe there are not many these kinds of bands, and that gives us the advantage of being more easily recognized.

Every year we elect the Queen of the Festival, anyone can become. What do you think of the fact that they already see you as candidates for the crown?

- Being elected for a queen of the festival would be a huge fulfilled for us and we would be proud of having reached the affection of the people, together with Chileans'' captivate with the music we make. In fact it would be fantastic, Ninjaqueens!

Apart from coming to sing, what else do you think to do in these sides? What do you expect from the Chilean audience?

- We hope to have enough time to know and enjoy Chile, all its sites. We have heard that they are beautiful. We have never been to Chile or elsewhere in South America, but we have always dreamed of traveling to there. We hope to enjoy as much as possible on this trip, but we have a busy schedule during the festival. That's why we hope that the Chilean audience is prepared to meet us, friendly and animated. We love the music we do and that's why we plan to pass very well with our performance at the festival and in our passage through Chile. We also invite people to visit our official website: vanillaninja.cl where you can listen to our song "Birds Of Peace" that competes in the Festival of Vina del Mar, see our pictures and watch videos also. Let's meet for a few more days in Vina!

Quelle: Love-Ninjas

Pirets Geburtstag

Unsere VN Gitaristin Piret hat heute ihren 24ten Geburtstag!
Wir wünschen ihr alles liebe und hoffen das all ihre Pläne in Erfüllung gehen.

VN occpies Chilean media

Surfing through the network i found some article on Region de Coquimbo On Line portal. They didn't write any new thing so i didn't translate it too. There's written that the girls are going to perform during the Vińa del Mar Festival 2008.You can see the article by clicking here.Vanilla Ninja appeared in Chilean media again. This time in the newest number of VEA magazine, that went out 2 days ago, we can find a short article and interview. All in all it took almost 4 pages! Thanks to Hector (Vanilla Ninja promoter) we can show you scans and give translation. I translated whole article and interview on my own so if you speak Spanish and see some mistakes let me know and i'll correct it. Scans and translation you can find below.

Vanilla Ninja, from Estonia to Vińa "Our music leaves a nocaut!"

They are real wrists of music and they call out to be a rivals of Chilean and Argentinean candidates to get crowned as a queens of the next Festival. Lenna, Piret and Katrin form an Estonian trio that participates in an international competition representing their distant country with the song "Birds Of Peace".

Rarely participants of Festival De Vińa draw attention. They do it only when some of them is beautiful or eccentricity of others incites lenses of the cameras to capture the full artistic slaughter or at the gala opening, which is the place where they all exploit their attributes out-of-scenary. Not talking but by the songs, because it takes much time and subject of festival's competition doesn't get into the programmatic grills of radios or music programs in television. As an example. The last radio success of a theme winner of an international competition was in year 2001. At that time Raly Barrionuevo won that version of Festival with the song 'Ayer te vi' featured singer Víctor Heredia. But every year is renewed hope to see a real level of competition with established artists, both in Chile and other parts of the world. In that sense Estonia, one of the classified countries, bets all chips to a band that although in this part of world is not yet known, have got great merits to be one of the winning cards, giving their musical experience in Europe. It's all about Lenna, Piret and Katrin, better known as Vanilla Ninja, a trio of great interpreters on an European and Asian continent enjoying good-degree of popularity thanks to career with leading four discs on their credit: "Vanilla Ninja" (2003), "Traces Of Sadness" (2004), "Blue Tattoo" (2005), "Love Is War" (2006). In their native Estonia they're the most famous band since its formation in 2002, although a year later they've won recognition from specialized press and the young audience.

Seeing their photographs, most seem to be the last conquest of the best European designer, but these girls have proved to be more than perfect faces and bodies. In their songs they approached from romantic themes to classical cases of social relevance as violence against women, something that nowadays is leading in Chile - at a sad ranking of women murdered by their partners.

About all that they talk to VEA from Tallinn, capital of Estonia, town of 443.000 inhabitants and where they're already preparing themselves for this trip which includes participation in our Festival, but also a strategic starting point to get a Latino market.

Why the name "Vanilla Ninja"?

Lenna: We created the name together with our primer producer, at the beginning we were fascinated by the word "Ninja" having this mix of tough and cool. As a "Ninja" alone, it was very common, so we decided to put "Vanilla" because we are all blondes . "Ninja" describes the sounds of our music. It is highly powerful and leaves a nocaut without your knowing.

What do you know about Festival de Vińa?

Katrin: We know that it's the most important event of this kinds in Latin America. Many artists have made their career spears this way. This is very significant for us and we want you to know us in the Latin market. We know also, that Vińa del Mar is a beautiful place. We want to see places that so far we have seen only per Internet.

Seize an opportunity to visit a Vińa, but people on Festival will listen to the show of astists rather than competitors. So they can play more against than favour in terms of promotion.

Piret: We can only say that we're going to give our best on the stage in Vińa. Vanilla Ninja is characterized by this delivery, what will happen beyond that will depend on how the audience absorbs what we are offering with our composition.

You're very beautiful women and they already say that they want you as a candidate for a title of queens of Festival. Request that comes closer to the show business than music competition. Are you willing to participate in this beauty instance?

Katrin: Definitely, we would love to be a queens! Indeed I believe that any girl in the world would reject the idea of being able to become a queen. We are anxious to get to Chile, and it's very soon finally.

Song "I Know" from disc "Blue Tattoo" tells about a violence in a couple and in video, there is a man hitting a woman very much. In Chile in 2007 died more than 60 women murdered by their partners. What is your position there, dealing with reality? Does it happen in Estonia also?

Piret: Sure that these problems also exist here, although almost nobody talks about it. We believe that men who dare to hit women, are not a real men. It is an issue that gives so much in our case and with respect to the song "I Know", we wanted to put it on the table in the video because unfortunately it is something that happens, but the problem isn't always known.

Are you going to promote song "Birds Of Peace" during staying in Vińa Del Mar?

Lenna: We hope to have enough time to promote our single in several places. We are positive that you'll like "Birds Of Peace". If you want to listen, you can visit our Spanish website (www.vanillaninja.cl), you can listen to our single there, watch our videos and get to know us a little bit closer.

Are you coming here with some special look, considering what fashion to bring for Festival, for example black hair from the video "Blue Tattoo"?

Piret: We'll definitely remain in our blond hair, at the moment we're all blondes. But we will provide a lot of attention to our costumes used on the stage. We are in touch with a fashion designer in Estonia who's is very good. What we can promise that with her we'll look precious, rocky and different.

How to define your music and what are your influences?

Katrin: We call our music as a "Pop-Rock". You can feel it as a pop music, but with many elements of rock, or vice versa, rock music, with a pop touch.

Do you know some Chilean artists or South American?

Lenna: For now we don't know any Chilean artists, but we're sure that in Vińa we'll know more than one. We have got references from Latin artists as Shakira and Ricky Martin, for example, who are famous here in Europe.

Are you unmarried? Do you have boyfriends and what do they think of your career? If you have got partners, is it hard to keep relationship during work, travels, etc.?

Piret: It's true that being a music artist and having a love-relationship at the same time is hard. But if there are true feelings and mutual trust between partners, then relationship can work well. Being away from home all the time makes you think of this what really matters in life. We know for sure that there's nothing more important than family, friends, place they always arrive to - your home. Without them we would be lost.

Quelle: Love-Ninjas

Lennas Lover?

Durch die Brille des Humors im Radio: Mit wem hat Lenna heute nacht geschlafen?

Die begehrenswerte Vanilla-Ninja-Sängerin Lenna Kuurmaa (22) hat alle Nase lang einen neuen Liebhaber. Nach den eigenen Worten der Sängerin sind solche Meldungen darüber, dass sie mit jemanden zusammen sein soll, lächerlich und es überrascht fast sie nichts mehr.

Die heutige Kroonika schreibt über eine Nachrichtenbombe, die in der Musikwelt einschlug, nämlich dass Karl-Kristjan (17) von den Bedwetters eine Nacht mit Lenna verbracht hätte. Dies schloss der Journalist daraus, dass Karl-Kristjan sich mit Lenna nach einer langen Partynacht im Taxi zu Lenna fahren ließ, um dort zu übernachten.

Da Lenna eine von den Präsentatoren der Sendung "Soovisaade" ("Wunschsendung") bei Radio Sky Plus ist, hatte sie die Möglichkeit, zu diesem Thema selbst Stellung zu nehmen. Dies tat sie dann auch vor der Sendung am Ende von "Neljast seitsmeni" ("Von vier bis sieben").

Lenna dementierte, dass sie eine Nacht mit ihm verbracht hätte. "Wenn er sich Tätovierungen auf die Hände machen und sich die Haare schwarz färben würde, wäre er nach meinem Geschmack", stellte sie sich Kart-Kristjan humorvoll vor.

Darauf scherzten die Moderatoren Vaido und Kertu: "Lenna, mit wem hast Du heute Nacht geschlafen?"

"Mit dem Supermann Savisaar", antwortete Lenna darauf.

In einem früheren Interview soll Lenna der Kroonika gesagt haben, dass sie als junge Frau einen Weg suche, wie sie für Männer ein unwiderstehlicher Leckerbissen sein könne. "Dies habe ich niemals gesagt!" sagte der Ninja-Star.

Quelle: VN-VIP