Arja Saijonmaa

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Type

Person

Gender

Female

Origin

Finland

Active from

1944-12-01

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Listeners

25,256

Total plays

221,905

Arja Saijonmaa (born December 1, 1944) is a Finnish singer, political activist and occasional actress. She made her breakthrough as a singer in Sweden. She has made albums with Swedish translations of songs by Mikis Theodorakis, as well as covers of Zarah Leander songs. As a politician, she has been a member of the Swedish People's Party in Finland and in 1987 she was appointed UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador. When Prime minister Olof Palme was buried in 1986, she sung "Jag vill tacka livet". <a hre

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Global burden of bacterial antimicrobial resistance 1990–2021: a systematic analysis with forecasts to 2050

   · 2024 · cited 3,284x

2. Association analysis identifies 65 new breast cancer risk loci

   · 2017 · cited 1,358x

3. Hyperplasia of Lymphatic Vessels in VEGF-C Transgenic Mice

   · 1997 · cited 1,030x

4. Polygenic Risk Scores for Prediction of Breast Cancer and Breast Cancer Subtypes

   · 2019 · cited 1,019x

5. Large-scale genotyping identifies 41 new loci associated with breast cancer risk

   · 2013 · cited 915x

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Wikidata facts

Instance of

human

Given name

Helena

Gender

female

Citizenship

Finland

Place of birth

Mikkeli

Occupation

singer

Educated at

University of Helsinki

Languages spoken

Finnish

Native language

Finnish

Genre

tango

Instrument

voice

Official website

arjasaijonmaa.com

Image

Arja Saijonmaa på Guldbaggegalan 2013..jpg

Residence

Helsinki

Voice type

mezzo-soprano

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