Essi Leppälä

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Essi Leppälä
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Leppälä at the 2019 Radio Paras Charity Gala.
Born (1996-05-16) May 16, 1996 (age 27)
Paltamo, Velzemia
NationalityVelzemian
Occupation
  • Singer
  • songwriter
  • actress
  • model
Years active2015-present
Musical career
Genres
  • Pop
  • Dance-pop
  • Synth-pop
  • Dream-pop
  • Disco
InstrumentsVocals
LabelsElectric Records

Essi Leppälä (born 16 May, 1996; age 23) is a Velzemian singer, songwriter, actress and model. Leppälä first gained minor recognition acting in Velzemian dramas and soaps whilst also doing modelling jobs. She released her debut EP, Sweet Things, independently in 2012 but it proved to be a commercial failure having sold only 300 copies by the end of 2014. In 2015, she signed to Electric Records and released a remix of one of the songs from her EP, Lost In You, with Velzemian DJ Mister Outo. The remixed version of the song peaked at number three on the Velzemian Top Hits Chart and number seventeen on the Narozalic Charts. Between September 2015 and May 2016 Leppälä released two more top twenty hits, Release and Dark Place, as standalone singles.

In December 2016, Leppälä released Crazy Together as the lead single from her debut studio album, Essi. The single peaked at number two on the Velzemian Top Hits Chart and spent twenty weeks in the top ten as well as reaching number eight on the Narozalic Charts, her first top ten single in the region. The album went on to have five top ten hits, including the number one single New At Love. The album was released in July 2017 and debuted at number three on the Velzemian Album Chart, going on to peak at number one eight weeks after it's release. It has spent a total of thirty seven weeks in the top ten of the chart since 2017. In October 2019, Leppälä released the song Not Again as the lead single from her second studio album, The Getaway, due to be released in May 2020. The single debuted at number one and has so far spent seven weeks in the top position and sixteen weeks in the top ten. The second single, Let's Dance, was released in January 2020.

Early life

Essi Merja Leppälä was born in Paltamo, Visargia on May 16, 1996 to Jouko Leppälä, the owner & CEO of a local chain of grocery stores, and Frida Leppälä, a teacher. She grew up with a brother and a sister, Rami and Kariina. Leppälä attended the local schools in Paltamo whilst growing up. Her family attended a local Episemalist church where she was a member of the choir and has credited this as being a major motivation for her becoming a singer.

Career

Personal life

Discography

Studio albums & EPs

List of studio albums & extended plays, with selected chart positions, sales and certifications
Title Details Peak chart positions Sales Certifications
VEL NAR
Sweet Nights
  • Released: 2012
  • Label: None
  • Formats: CD, digital download
  • Velzemia: 16,000 (2018)
  • Velzemia: Silver (2018)
Essi
  • Released: 2017
  • Label: Electric Records
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
1 4
  • Velzemia: 270,000 (2019)
  • Narozalica: 140,000 (2018)
  • Velzemia: 5× Platinum (2019)
The Getaway
  • To be released: May 2020
  • Label: Warner
  • Formats: CD, LP, digital download, streaming
To be released

Singles

List of singles as lead artist, with selected chart positions, certifications and album name
Title Year Peak chart positions Certifications Album/EP
VEL NAR
"Lost In You"
(with Mr Outo)
2015 3 17
  • Velzemia: 7× Platinum
Sweet Nights
"Release" 2015 12 47
  • Velzemia: Platinum
Non-album singles
"Dark Place" 2016 19
  • Velzemia: Platinum
"Crazy Together" 2016 2 8
  • Velzemia: 5× Platinum
Essi
"Up & Over" 2017 7 31
  • Velzemia: 2× Platinum
"Cold" 2017 4 12
  • Velzemia: 3× Platinum
"New At Love" 2017 1 3
  • Velzemia: 8× Platinum
"Maybe Love Wasn't Worth It" 2018 3 9
  • Velzemia: 5× Platinum
"Fears" 2018 6 11
  • Velzemia: 3× Platinum
Non-album singles
"Blood, Sweat & Tears" 2018 12 41
  • Velzemia: Gold
"Magnetic Touch" 2019 5 16
  • Velzemia: 2× Platinum
"Not Again" 2019 1 1
  • Velzemia: Platinum
The Getaway
"Let's Dance" 2020 10 27
  • Velzemia: Silver
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.