Anna mulle tähtitaivas
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Anna mulle tähtitaivas (English: Give Me the Starry Sky) is an album by Finnish singer Katri Helena, released in 1992 after a five-year recording hiatus.[1] The album sold enough copies to earn double platinum certification, making it the best-selling album of Katri Helena’s career up to that point.[2]
In addition to the album’s success, the title track—written by Jukka Kuoppamäki and also released as a single—became a major hit. In a 1995 newspaper interview, Katri Helena expressed surprise that the highest-selling album of her career came only after 32 years of performing.
In a 1997 interview, Kuoppamäki described "Anna mulle tähtitaivas" as one of the finest songs of his career, calling it a kind of modern prayer:
“When writing lyrics, you don’t know how seriously they will be taken—how someone battered by life might pin the words to their corkboard.”
Katri Helena likewise said that she only gradually came to understand how serious the song’s message is beneath its upbeat exterior.[3][4]
The album includes four additional songs composed and written by Jukka Kuoppamäki, as well as two compositions by Katri Helena herself.
