Boulevard (Finnish band)

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Boulevard was a Finnish rock band, which was founded in 1983, by Kyösti Laihi and Erkki Korhonen. The band mainly played at clubs and bars. After their start, they were joined by Matti Auranen and Tuomo Tepsa. Other members of the band included Juha Lanu, Kari Vehkaluoto and Jari Puhakka.

The group became best known for representing Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest on two consecutive years

1987 - Vicky Rosti's backing group with the song Sata salamaa (A hundred lightnings), finished 15th place with 32 points.
1988 - Performers of the song Nauravat silmät muistetaan (Laughing eyes are remembered), finished 20th place with 3 points.

The group disbanded in 1994.

Discography[edit]

Sata salamaa (1987)
Nauravat silmät muistetaan (1988)
Nauravat silmät (1988)

External links[edit]

Boulevard: Take him home, the Eurovision Song Contest Trial Presentation YLE Living Archive Archived 2010-12-28 at the Wayback Machine

Preceded by Vicky Rosti and Boulevard with Sata salamaa	Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 1988	Succeeded by Anneli Saaristo
Preceded by Kari Kuivalainen with Never The End	Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest (with Vicky Rosti) 1987	Succeeded by Boulevard with Nauravat silmät muistetaan

v t e Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest
Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu
Participation	1961 1962 1963 1964 1965 1966 1967 1968 1969 1971 1972 1973 1974 1975 1976 1977 1978 1979 1980 1981 1982 1983 1984 1985 1986 1987 1988 1989 1990 1991 1992 1993 1994 1996 1998 2000 2002 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 ~~2020~~ 2021 2022 2023 2024
Artists	Saara Aalto ~~Aksel~~ Markku Aro Ami Aspelund Monica Aspelund Nina Åström Beat Blind Channel Boulevard Carita CatCat Darude Edea Kim Floor Fredi Laila Halme Kristina Hautala Jarkko and Laura Jasmine Käärijä Kaija Katri Helena Laila Kinnunen Kirka Viktor Klimenko Koivisto Sisters Kojo Kari Kuivalainen Kuunkuiskaajat Laura Vesa-Matti Loiri Lordi Sonja Lumme Lasse Mårtenson Norma John Ann-Christine Nyström Hanna Pakarinen Päivi Paunu Paradise Oskar Pave Pernilla Pertti Kurikan Nimipäivät Pihasoittajat The Rasmus Sebastian Rejman Geir Rönning Vicky Rosti Marion Rung Anneli Saaristo Sandhja Krista Siegfrids Jari Sillanpää Seija Simola Softengine Riki Sorsa Teräsbetoni Waldo's People Windows95man
Songs	"Aava" "Addicted to You" "Aina mun pitää" "Anna rakkaudelle tilaisuus" "Aurinko laskee länteen" "Blackbird" "Bye Bye Baby" "Cha Cha Cha" "Da Da Dam" "Dark Side" "La dolce vita" "Eläköön elämä" "Fantasiaa" "Fri?" "Hard Rock Hallelujah" "Hengaillaan" "Huilumies" "Hullu yö" "Jezebel" "Katson sineen taivaan" "Keep Me Warm" "Kuin silloin ennen" "Kun kello käy" "Laiskotellen" "Lapponia" "Leave Me Alone" "A Little Bit" "Look Away" ~~"Looking Back"~~ "Lose Control" "Marry Me" "Missä miehet ratsastaa" "Monsters" "Muistathan" "Muistojeni laulu" "När jag blundar" "Nauravat silmät muistetaan" "Never the End" "Niin kaunis on taivas" "No Rules!" "Nuku pommiin" "Old Man Fiddle" "Playboy" "Pump-Pump" "Reggae OK" "Sata salamaa" "Sing It Away" "Something Better" "Takes 2 to Tango" "Tie uuteen päivään" "Tipi-tii" "Tom Tom Tom" "Tule luo" "Työlki ellää" "Valoa ikkunassa" "Varjoon – suojaan" "Why?" "Yamma, yamma"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Finland did not compete

v t e Eurovision Song Contest 1987
Countries	Austria Belgium Cyprus Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Yugoslavia
Artists	Alexia Bang Datner and Kushnir Lotta Engberg Kate Gulbrandsen Halla Margrét Anne-Cathrine Herdorf and Bandjo Patricia Kraus Johnny Logan Gary Lux Marcha Christine Minier Nevada Novi fosili Plastic Bertrand Carol Rich Rikki Vicky Rosti and Boulevard Liliane Saint-Pierre Seyyal Taner and Lokomotif Umberto Tozzi and Raf Wind
Songs	"Amour, amour" "Aspro mavro" "Boogaloo" "Gente di mare" "Hægt og hljótt" "Hold Me Now" "Ja sam za ples" "Lass die Sonne in dein Herz" "En lille melodi" "Mitt liv" "Moitié, moitié" "Les Mots d'amour n'ont pas de dimanche" "Neste barco à vela" "No estás solo" "Nur noch Gefühl" "Only the Light" "Rechtop in de wind" "Şarkım Sevgi Üstüne" "Sata salamaa" "Shir Habatlanim" "Soldiers of Love" "Stop"

Eurovision Song Contest 1988

Countries

Final	Austria Belgium Denmark Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Ireland Israel Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Norway Portugal Spain Sweden Switzerland Turkey United Kingdom Yugoslavia
Disqualified	Cyprus

Artists

Final	Yardena Arazi Luca Barbarossa Beathoven Boulevard La Década Céline Dion Dora Lara Fabian Scott Fitzgerald Afroditi Frida Maxi and Chris Garden Hot Eyes Gerard Joling Jump the Gun Tommy Körberg Karoline Krüger Gérard Lenorman MFÖ Reynaert Srebrna krila Wilfried
Disqualified	Yiannis Dimitrou

Songs

Final	"Ben Adam" "Chanteur de charme" "La chica que yo quiero (Made in Spain)" "Clown" "Croire" "For vår jord" "Go" "Ka' du se hva' jeg sa'?" "Laissez briller le soleil" "Lied für einen Freund" "Lisa Mona Lisa" "Mangup" "Nauravat silmät muistetaan" "Ne partez pas sans moi" "Shangri-La" "Stad i ljus" "Sufi" "Take Him Home" "Þú og þeir (Sókrates)" "Vivo (Ti scrivo)" "Voltarei"
Disqualified	"Thimame"