BIO

Erika Hammarberg (13.12.1994, Hyvinkää) is a Helsinki-based singer, lyricist, composer, and writer. She was raised in the world of folk music and dance by her folk-singer mother and became familiar with performing on stage early on in life. Laterly, Hammarberg has worked professionally in the art field where she experiments with different styles and disciplinary mediums while still keeping in touch with her roots in Finno-Ugric and Nordic traditions. Some of the most noted key points in her career include an award-winning (Finnish equivalent to a Grammy: Emma, Ethno category, 2018) album Kulku with a multinational band SANS, where she was one of the main singers along with her mother. Her recent work also includes the feature Animagios dramatic works Ystäväni Tsizik (My Friend Tsizik) and Vulfekin laulu (Song of Vulfek) as a script-writer and a librettist and Kaija Saariaho’s fifth opera Innocence performing the role of Markéta.