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