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Ritva Sorvali is a Finnish actress/singer, who has released one album called Älä elämää pelkää, which features songs composed by Kaj Chydenius. The lyrics are originally poems by various Finnish poets, such as Märta Tikkanen and Aale Tynni. In the album there are also a few poems written by Pablo Neruda and Bertol Brecht, translated into Finnish by Pentti Saarikoski. .

A Finnish lecturer in and performer on the kantele. A kantele (harppu in Sami) is a traditional plucked string instrument of the dulcimer and zither family native to Finland and Karelia. Recordings available internationally are few; her performance of Pari Intervallo, composed by Arvo Pärt, was recently included on a cover cd of Songlines. .