Sata salamaa

Infobox Single
Name = Sata salamaa
Artist = Vicky Rosti


from Album = Sata salamaa
Released = 1987
Format = vinyl single
Genre = pop
Length =
Label = Flamingo
Writer = Petri Laaksonen
Producer =
Last single =
This single = Sata salamaa 1987
Next single =
Misc =Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Finland "Sata salamaa"


caption =
year = 1987
country = Finland
artist = Vicky Rosti
as =
with = Boulevard
language = Finnish
languages =
composer = Petri Laaksonen
lyricist = Veli-Pekka Lehto
conductor = Ossi Runne
place = 15th
points = 32
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1987fi from Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Never The End
prev_link = Never The End
next = Nauravat silmät muistetaan
next_link = Nauravat silmät muistetaan

"Sata salamaa" (English translation: "A Hundred Bolts of Lightning") was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, performed in Finnish by Vicky Rosti and Boulevard.

The song was performed eighteenth on the night (following Cyprus' Alexia with "Aspro Mavro" and preceding Denmark's Anne-Cathrine Herdorf & Drengene with "En Lille Melodi"). At the close of voting, it had received 32 points, placing 15th in a field of 22.

The song is sung from the perspective of a woman telling her lover that, regardless of the adversity (the "hundred lightnings" of the title) they face in their love, "There's a thousand worlds out there, and one of them is ours" - in other words, they will triumph in the end.

It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 1988 Contest by Boulevard with "Nauravat silmät muistetaan".

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