A few days ago, my son sent me the following song saying: "Papa, something about this reminds me of you. Not sure if you used to play this song."
A peppy song but I hadn't heard of it. He was right that I liked such songs, and probably he had heard me play some song similar to this.
It was so captivating that I looked up the web to know more about it, and this is what I found on Wikipedia.
Ievan Polkka is a Finnish song with lyrics published in 1928 to a traditional Finnish polka tune. But it was forgotten till 1995 when the Loituma quartet released their first album by the same name. The four are: Sari Kauranen, Anita Lehtola-Tollin, Timo Väänänen and Hanni-Mari Autere.
The band was selected the Ensemble of the Year at the 1997 Kaustinen Folk Music Festival.
Ever since that there have been many versions of the original song and some of the tunes were incorporated as ring tones by various European telecom companies.
The four performed on the 50th birthday of Hanni Autere in November 2019.
No wonder this is said to be the most famous Finnish song!