<P> Saara Sofia Aalto (born 2 May 1987) is a Finnish singer, songwriter, and voice actress . She came second in the first season of The Voice of Finland in 2012 . Aalto competed in the Finnish national selection to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest two times, first in 2011 with "Blessed with Love" and then in 2016 with "No Fear", both times placing second . On 7 November 2017, it was announced that she had been internally selected by broadcaster Yle to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2018 in Lisbon . The Finnish public chose the song "Monsters". She qualified for the grand final and ended 25th on it . </P> <P> She has taken part in musicals on stage and has done a great number of dubbings for feature films and foreign television series . Saara Aalto is the voice of Princess Anna in the Finnish version of Disney's animated movie Frozen . She has dueted with Adam Lambert, and had concerts together with Andrea Bocelli, José Carreras and pianist Robert Wells . She has released 5 albums on her own record label Yume Records . </P> <P> In 2016, Aalto came runner - up in the thirteenth series of The X Factor UK, which gained her international recognition . Every fourth Finn watched The X Factor final . Aalto was the most - Googled person in Finland in 2016 . Tabloid newspaper Iltalehti readers voted Saara Aalto as Finnish person of the year 2016 . Following the show, she was signed to both Sony Music UK and Finland . In June 2017, Aalto announced via social media that she will be a judge on season two of X Factor Suomi . Four months later, Aalto announced she had left Sony Music for Warner Music Group, citing that her previous deal did not feel like the "right team". </P> <P> Born in Oulunsalo, Finland, Aalto grew up in a musical family and received piano lessons from pianist and pedagogue Olga Maslak, born in Odessa, Ukraine . Saara wrote her first song at the age of five . Her close relatives include painter and documentary director Eeli Aalto and magician Simo Aalto . In 1998 at age 11, she won the Kotka Maritime Festival song contest for children with one of her own compositions . Aalto also won the Charlotte Church international singing competition, organized in US, in 2003 with her own composition . Aalto represented Finland in the Golden Stag International Song Contest in Romania in 2004 . She went to the Madetoja secondary school for music, where she graduated in 2005 . After graduation she moved to Helsinki to study music at the Sibelius Academy, and at the same time also studied singing in the Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory . </P>

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