Soft engine

Soft engine
Soft engine at ESC 2014
General information
Genre (s)	Alternative rock , indie pop
founding	2011
Website	softengine.fi
Current occupation
Vocals, guitar	Topi Latukka (since 2011)
Guitar, synthesizer	Ossi Mäkelä (since 2011)
Keyboards	Henri Oskár (since 2012)
Drums	Tuomo Alarinta (since 2013)
former members
Drums	Casimir Cantons (2011-2013)
Electric bass	Eero Keskinen (2011-2014)

Chart positions Explanation of the data

Albums

We Created the World   FI 7th 43/2014 (8 weeks)

Singles

Something better   DE 80 05/23/2014 (1 week)   AT 62 05/23/2014 (1 week)   UK 93 05/24/2014 (1 week)

Soft Engine is a Finnish indie rock - band .

Career

The members of Softengine come from the western Finnish city of Seinäjoki and founded the band in 2011. Together with eight other artists they took part in the Finnish preliminary decision for the Eurovision Song Contest 2014 called UMK and were able to reach the final on February 1, 2014 with 38 points for decide.

On May 8, 2014, they qualified for the ESC final in the second semifinals and represented Finland at the 59th Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark with the song Something Better . They reached eleventh place with 72 points.

Her debut album We Created the World was released on October 17, 2014 and made it into the Finnish top 10. At the same time, founding member Eero Keskinen left the band in order to concentrate on his training as a lighting technician.

On June 17, 2015, the band presented All About You & I, their first single far away from their debut album. In April 2016 the title Salamatie by the Finnish teen pop singer Robin was published , on which Softengine was a guest artist.

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  Softengine 2014 (video)

Discography

Albums

• 2014: We Created the World

EPs

• 2015: From Earth, From Ashes, From Dust

Singles

• 2014: Something Better
• 2014: Yellow House
• 2014: The Sirens
• 2014: What If I?
• 2015: All About You & I
• 2015: Big Fat Bass Drums

Guest Posts

• 2016: Salamatie ( Robin feat.Softengine)

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1. ↑ ^{a b} Chart sources: Finland - Germany - Austria - UK
2. ↑ Peter Lewis: Finland: Softengine win UMK 2014. esctoday.de, February 1, 2014, accessed on May 9, 2014 (English). 
3. ^ Life after Helsinki 2007 Eurovision: ROBIN FEAT. SOFTENGINE - SALAMATIE. In: ilkar.blogspot.de. Retrieved May 7, 2016 . 

Web links

Commons : Softengine  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• official website of Softengine