Mari-Leen

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Mari-Leen
Mari-Leen (photo by Moonwalk)
Background information
Birth name	Mari-Leen Kaselaan
Born	December 2, 1987 (1987-12-02) (age 20) Tartu, Estonia
Genre(s)	Pop
Years active	2005 – present
Label(s)	Moonwalk
Website	www.myspace.com/marileenmusic

Mari-Leen Kaselaan, better known by her performing name Mari-Leen (born December 2, 1987 in Tartu, Estonia) is a pop musician. She graduated from Elva Music School where she played violin and has studied at the Elva Song Studio and Ülenurme Music School under Ursel Oja. She is currently studying at the Audentes private school in Tallinn, where she lives with her boyfriend, Dutchman Sietse Bakker, and their Chihuahua dogs Chicka and Luby.

Her musical career began as part of the group Ekvivalent, but her breakthrough came thanks to a competition run by the Estonian radio station Skyplus, in which Mari-Leen reached the final. However, she became widely known among the Estonian public as member of the girl band Suntribe. With Suntribe she represented Estonia at the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song Let's Get Loud.

Mari-Leen started her solo-career with a cover of the Finnish hit Levoton Tuhkimo by Dingo, titled Rahutu Tuhkatriinu. After the first single made it to the first place of the Estonian charts, Mari-Leen again topped the Estonian charts with her first solo-album Rahutu Tuhkatriinu, produced and written by Sven Lõhmus, in December 2006.

In September 2007, Mari-Leen performed at Tele2 GoLive at the Tallinn Song Festival Grounds.

Mari-Leen is now spending time in studio, recording her new album. The first single Printsess, which is a cover of the 80s Finnish pop/dance music group Bogart Co, is expected to be released in March.