Contemporary Folk music of Finland

In the year 2000 an underground-movement of new Finnish traditional music came out, musicians like Joose Keskitalo, Kuusumun Profeetta, Paavoharju and others have brought something new into the Finnish music scene though wider fame has not reached them. Despite their lyrics written in Finnish these groups have also gotten international recognition, even cult-following, also very popular musicians with a status of a classic J Karalainen and Pauli Hanhiniemi have in their current production gone to the direction of the traditional music though this music has in spite of being recognized by critics, been left unnoticed by the large audience.

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Another new phenomenon of the year 2000 beside that of the very famous rap and the underground traditional scene is suomireggae, with their Finnish lyrics, with moral and spiritual content, these musicians like Kapteeni A-ni, Jukka Poika, Soul-Captain Band, and Raappana also reached not just a cult following but also a wider fame.

The underground scenes of the different genres are very lively in Finland at the moment and a lot of groups and musicians defy the genre-limits, for instance is very famous Finnish underground rap artist ASA (which is formerly known as MC Avain), who has used the traditional music as the accompanying band, of the bands such as Profeetta ja UMU it is very hard to say, what genre they represent.