Ievan Polkka is a polka dance from Finland, and it is a Scandinavian local folk song. It was composed by Eino Kettunen in the1930s with the traditional Polka tunes of Eastern Europe. 1995 was sung by Acabella 1 group Loituma, and the first word "I" of this song was changed to "L" in the popular version, which not only symbolizes similarity, but also symbolizes another nickname of this song "Polkka of Loituma". Among them, Ievan is English Eva(Ieva, Eeva) in Finnish. The main version circulating in the market is about 2 minutes and 30 seconds. The original Loituma (original song named Dolly Song Leva's Polka Holly) is a singing group from Finland, with four members singing in four parts. Their songs are mainly based on traditional Finnish music. Attended the Kostin Folk Music Festival on 1997, which attracted much attention. This is a Finnish folk band. Anita Lehtola, the lead singer, is a female singer with a charming voice. She often participates in various world music. Anita's singing means Runo-song (also known as "rune-song" or "poem -song"). "rune" means ancient Nordic and Finnish poetry. This is a kind of Finnish folk poetry, which is repetitive in form and rhymes at the beginning. It is cold and charming, as if it brought us to a green land, which is far away and just a fantasy. At the Kostin Folk Music Festival with a history of 1997, Leutuma sang this song in the form of cappella, and then this song began to attract everyone's attention.
However, until 2006, this song was only known in a few European countries, such as Finland. In 2006, a flash animation "Loituma Girl" made by a Japanese [1] appeared on the Internet, in which Orihime Inoue sang this song while shaking the onion in her hand. Since then, this song has been sung outside Europe.
Holly dolly
In the same year, Holly Dolly covered this song and released an album on 165438+ 10/0/7, which also set off a craze in Europe. This is another song after Ma Axi, which first became popular through the Internet and then released an album.
Although the official said that this song is original, it is obviously from Finnish folk music.