Aava

Infobox Single
Name = Aava


Artist = Edea
from Album =
Released = 1998
Format = CD
Recorded =
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Last single =
This single = "Aava"
(1998)
Next single =
Misc =Infobox ESC entry
song = flagicon|Finland "Aava"


caption =
year = 1998
country = Finland
artist = Marika Krook,
Ralph van Manen,
Abdissa Assefa,
Alexi Ahoniemi,
Samuli Kosminen,
Tommy Mansikka-Aho
as = Edea
with =
language = Finnish
languages =
composer = Alexi Ahoniemi
lyricist = Tommy Mansikka-Aho
conductor = Olli Ahvenlahti
place = 15th
points = 22
lyrics = [http://www.diggiloo.net/?1998fi from the Diggiloo Thrush]
clip =
prev = Niin kaunis on taivas
prev_year = 1996
prev_link = Niin kaunis on taivas
next = A Little Bit
next_year = 2000
next_link = A Little Bit (Nina Åström song)

"Aava" (English translation: "Open Landscape") is a song by Edea, which was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1998.

The song was performed twenty-first on the night (following Belgium's Mélanie Cohl with "Dis Oui" and preceding Norway's Lars Fredriksen with "Alltid Sommer"). At the close of voting, it had received 22 points, placing 15th in a field of 25, thus disqualifying Finland from participation in the 1999 Contest.

The song consists largely of the repetition of the phrase "open landscape wide", taking advantage of the sounds of the Finnish language (in which the phrase is rendered "aava maa avara". It thus stands as something of a one-off in Contest history, and is regarded with interest by many fans of the Contest. Interestingly, it is not the song with the least lyrics in Contest history, that distinction being held by Norway's Secret Garden with "Nocturne", but it does hold the record for the least different words, a total of 6.

It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 2000 Contest by Nina Åström with "A Little Bit".

ingle Track listing

# "Aava"
# "Aava (Illusion Rake Mix)"
# "Aava (Kajasto mix)"

References