Netta 's music has taken her audiences like a storm. She is a World Champion accordion player who captivates people by her unique performances.
Netta Skog is Finnish accordion player who was born in 1990. She started to play accordion when she was only 5 years old and she’s done a lot of many kind of musical projects during these years.
In the year of 2006 she won the Golden Accordion -competition which is basically the best accordion player in Finland and since that her career as a real musician basically started. In the competition she played the song ”Dead to the world” from very known Finnish metal band NIGHTWISH and it got a lot of attention around the world. Mostly because of that performance, Battle Metal -band TURISAS asked her to join the band. Netta was a official member in Turisas in 2007-2011 and got the chance to travel all around the whole world.
In the year 2013 Netta decided to try her chances as a singer, so she attended to the Finnish Tango-competition and got straight to the finals, so she was among the top six female singers.
In the year of 2015 Netta was asked to join another Finnish folk metal band called ENSIFERUM and therefore she played and toured with them around the world 3 years during 2015-2017.
Netta's life's one of the biggest highlights was definitely the year when she won the World Championships in digital accordion. Since that she has done amazing job with the digital accordion and has reached a lot of new crowds and especially the young enthusiastic musicians.
Even though Netta’s life has been mostly surrounded by heavy metal music, she also writes some own music which contains also a lot of pop and instrumental music. She is also very interested in movie soundtracks and therefore says that one of her idols is Hans Zimmer.
Netta mostly do solo shows around the world, but also she has a duo partner for different shows. He is the Stratovarius singer Timo Kotipelto. Their program is full of hard rock classics and also some Stratovarius songs and the cherry on top is the funny communication and chemistry they have on stage.
The other duo partner is a wonderful singer, Kaarle Viikate from Finnish rock band Viikate. Netta's and Kaarle's program is full of more like traditional old songs, spiced up with guitar and traditional accordion sound.
Netta is also known for her featuring skills with bands. She has had the honor to perform with bands such as NIGHTWISH, MOKOMA, CHILDREN OF BODOM and TURMION KÄTILÖT.
In the year 2022 Netta was asked to join the almighty CIRQUE DU SOLEIL as a band musician. Netta joined the new production called FUZION which took part in Saudi Arabia during April and May 2022.
BIOGRAPHY
Achievements
2024
The Accordion Artist of the Year
2015
Winner of
World Championships in digital accordion
2013
Finalist
in the Finnish National Tango-Singing competition
2012
Winner of
Roland V-accordion Nordic championships
2006
Winner of
Golden Accordion competition
2006
Winner of
“I play the accordion…” Competition
2005
Winner of
the Finnish accordion folk music -competition
in diatonic accordion
2003
Winner of
the Finnish accordion folk music-competition
in chromatic accordion