From the outset of her career, Janita has commanded attention. As a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter, she has uniquely defied convention yet repeatedly enjoyed mainstream success. Her tenth studio album, Mad Equation, is out May 16th 2025 on ECR Music Group, preceded by a special three-concert run at New York City’s The Bitter End. These full-band performances will celebrate the releases of the album’s singles in January and March, and the record release itself, in May. Prior to her two Top-40 U.S. Billboard hits, Janita was a sensation in her native Finland. She learned to sing before she could talk, began playing piano at age three, and started writing songs at age four before studying both classical piano and ballet...
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From the outset of her career, Janita has commanded attention. As a multi-instrumentalist, vocalist, and songwriter, she has uniquely defied convention yet repeatedly enjoyed mainstream success. Her tenth studio album, Mad Equation, is out May 16th 2025 on ECR Music Group, preceded by a special three-concert run at New York City’s The Bitter End. These full-band performances will celebrate the releases of the album’s singles in January and March, and the record release itself, in May. Prior to her two Top-40 U.S. Billboard hits, Janita was a sensation in her native Finland. She learned to sing before she could talk, began playing piano at age three, and started writing songs at age four before studying both classical piano and ballet. As a teenager, she became a fixture on radio and television and ahead of moving to New York City at seventeen, The Daily Telegraph proclaimed her as “Finland’s biggest pop star.” Her striking looks and the unsettling power of her musicianship helped put blue-eyed soul on the map in her home country, securing her place as a timeless persona in Finnish music history. With this new record, co-produced, recorded, and mixed by Blake Morgan (Lenny Kravitz, Lesley Gore), Janita continues to demonstrate that much like contemporaries PJ Harvey and St. Vincent, the only formula she’s interested in following is her own. “The title Mad Equation is about trying to do the math to figure someone out. Trying to size someone up. There’s actually a mathematical formula called ‘the mad equation’ which physicists use to measure the unpredictability of something,” says Janita. “I think it’s fair to say that over the course of my career, people have been trying to figure me out too. Am I the long-haired blonde soul singer? Am I the Finnish teenage star? Am I the American alternative rock ’n’ roller? Gosh, I’m just such a problem. So, maybe I’m a mad equation for some. Well, with this new record, problem solved.” Billboard Magazine writes, “This woman’s got the goods. Janita has created a timeless, sensuous, musical mosaic that deserves to be heard.” The Telegraph UK proclaims, “She sings with such passion and conviction that it’s hard to take your eyes off her.” Downtown Magazine describes her work as “Anthem(s) of clarity and hope…Janita’s striking gender-bending look and mesmerizing ice-blue eyes bring to mind Annie Lennox and Bowie’s Thin White Duke-era guise.”
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