OLIVERA

“I don’t know where my songs come from. I just listen to the endless radio show inside my head and record the best parts of it.”

Olivera is a singer & songwriter from Espoo, Finland. Her music lies somewhere between indie electronic and acoustic pop, and on her productions she works with the Finnish producer Lenno.

The debut album “Paradox” was released October 28, 2022. Along with producer Lenno and Olivera herself, the album is produced by Finnish hitmakers Alpo Nummelin (SANNI, Vesala, Ruusut) and Jori Sjöroos (PMMP, Vesta), and mastered by the Grammy-nominated engineer Svante Forsbäck.

The independently released album has gathered over 2,5 million combined streams. 

“Paradox” includes eight songs that each have a very deep meaning to Olivera. The title song “Paradox” is a catchy earworm that brings to mind the Danish superstar MØ. In the lyrics Olivera wonders the paradoxical needs of our time. “We yearn for things that eventually don’t even make us happy, including happiness itself. The weird nature of happiness is that it runs away. It’s not to be achieved by chasing, it’s a side product” says  the artist herself.

The first single on the album, “Thank God I’m an Atheist”, came out January 19, 2022. Olivera tells about the song: “I’ve always wondered about the promise of an eternal life made by various religions. I find the thought unsettling; there’s something about knowing life is finite that makes it so precious”. On its release week the independently released song gathered over 300 000 streams and hit the Finnish Spotify Top 50. It also received widespread radio and TV coverage in Finland. The rather controversial song raised a lot of conversation in Finland and internationally.

Olivera has also worked as a songwriter and a featuring artist for names like Tiësto, Zaxx, 3LAU, Sonny Alven, Lucian and John Dahlbäck. So far the songs she’s written have been streamed over 50 million times and covered by outlets such as Billboard, Forbes and Scandipop.