#paperinuket

[because-its-eurovision]

Finnish weekly magazine APU used to publish famous people as paper dolls between 1968 and 1998. The dolls ranged from sports stars to royals, tv comedians, beauty queens, and of course singers, including our Eurovision representatives. 

Many of the dolls were collected and printed into a book in 2008. It doesn’t include all of them, but at the end of a book there is a list of all the dolls published and after some research I managed to find pictures of all of the Eurovision dolls. I will collect each decade into a different post.

Finnish Eurovision representatives from the 1960′s, ordered by the year their dolls were published in:

1968: Kristiina Hautala (ESC 1968), also the first paper doll published in the magazine 1968: Katri Helena (ESC 1979 & 1993) 1969: Kirka Babitzin (ESC 1984) 1969: Jarkko ja Laura (ESC 1969) 1969: Päivi Paunu (ESC 1972) 1969: Fredi (ESC 1967 & 1976) 1969: Ann-Christine (ESC 1966) 1969: Lasse Mårtenson (ESC 1964) 1969: Laila Kinnunen (ESC 1961, Finland’s first ESC representative)