Palmera - Authors: Puranen, Tapani



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Tapani Puranen (born 1 October 1957 in Juva, Finland) is a keyboard player, composer, arranger, orchestra conductor, recording engineer and a producer.

Puranen won the Absolute Winner Prize in the Film Music Contest 2022 for his score on film ”Casino.sk”. He also got three Global Music Awards prizes and one of his songs charting number one in France 1996 got more than 7000 radioplays. Puranen moved from Finland to Andalucia, Spain in 2018.

After hearing some of the earlier tango recordings of Harri Kaitila, Puranen decided to write his first concert tango for Kaitila. Puranen wrote his songs first in Finnish and Kaitila translated the lyrics into Spanish.