Tapani Kansa has died – the pop singer’s colourful career lasted more than 50 years

Recording artist Tapani Kansa became known as a powerful interpreter and a colourful personality.

Kansa had a long career in domestic entertainment, dance halls and TV shows. The handsome, dark-haired artist also starred in a TV movie.

The nation became known for his offensive statements, some of which he regretted in his old age. The singer, who used to travel to gig venues by car, was in the headlines for his speeding escapades. Kansa was diagnosed with bipolar disorder in the second half of the 1990s and spoke openly about it in his biography *Tapani Kansa – stories from the singer’s road* (2023).

Childhood was a difficult time

Born in Hamina, Kansa was the firstborn in a family of many children. The Kansa family lived in a modest room in the grandparents’ migrant house. His mother was a talented singer and his father, a tin smith, a fiery communist and working-class writer.

The people later said that childhood was not happy in any way. He became an uncertain child full of fear and anxiety. The contradictory feelings of childhood were added to the fact that a believer’s grandmother preached to the son of Jesus and the sin.

The people believed that childhood strongly influenced how he behaved as an adult. The people were considered a edged person.

The schools were missed, and the people were doing a job as a young man. The fire to sing all the time. The people were asked to be a soloist for the school boys orchestra in the Kotka region. The road took me from there to Maestro, Helsinki, which was a popular youth dance venue in the late 1960s.

The new face of television

The people baked at the top of their popularity were captured on television, and a new face was * Saturday night on MTV * entertainment program on TV’s Prime Time. In addition to the people, many top artists of their time featured the program.

The people, which are ever accelerating at an accelerating pace, expanded their repertoire to the operetta theater. He pulled the halls full in the male head * in a happy widow * at the operetta theater in Helsinki and * Countess Mariza * at Turku City Theater in the mid-1970s.

At about the same time, the people studied opera song at the Sibelius Academy.

The career expanded even further as the singer was attached to the male role in YLE’s TV movie *Anu and Mikko *. It remained the only performance of the people as a film actor.

The people needed official recognition

The new winds blew in the late 1970s, and the people switched to stylish rock and disco music. In the 1980s, he had already established himself as one of Finland’s leading hit singers, and the gigs changed to national concert tours.

Despite the popularity of the Finnish people, Tapani Kansa felt that he did not receive enough official recognition in his career. After all, his popularity and extensiveness in Finland were exceptional.

Despite their severe illness, the people who had a significant career stopped gigging in 2019 and withdrew from publicity. In his old days, he settled in the scenery of his childhood.

*Repair 25.3. 10.30 am Hamina is a city, not part of Kotka, as read first in the story.*