Bio

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Venla Ilona Blom is a multi-award-winning vocalist and composer from Finland. For the past decade she has been touring the world with an all-female vocal performance group Tuuletar. Tuuletar is one of the most prestigious and internationally acclaimed groups from the Finnish folk music scene today and has won several music awards in recent years (f.e. Finnish Music Award EMMA for best Ethno album, 2017 and The Border Breaking Act of the Year, 2019). Tuuletar has performed in festivals and concert halls in five continents and over 30 countries.

Venla Ilona Blom has an M.Mus degree in vocal performance and composition studies from Sibelius Academy (Universityof Arts, Helsinki). As a vocalist, she is specialised in extended vocal techniques, vocal percussions and traditional singing styles deriving from Scandinavian and Slavic folk music. She has worked as a soloist in various projects with big bands, symphony orchestras and choirs. In spring 2025 she did a successful soloist debut in Semperoper Dresden in Kaija Saariaho’s Innocence, where she played Markéta, a role specially written for a singer with fenno-ugric folk singing abilities.

She has done an extensive amount of studio work and her vocals have been used in movie soundtracks, TV-shows and trailers such as HBO:s hit series Game of Thrones. She has done several interdisciplinary projects as a vocal artist and composed sonic art pieces for contemporary art exhibitions and events. Blom's solo stage production Woman Machine premiered in the fall of 2022 (Mad House Helsinki), and her debut album NEVRAK was released in 2024 (Nordic Notes). At the heart of Blom's artistic work is the exploration and use of the human voice, mind and body as both a reflection of the world and a tool for cultural interaction.