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MANZANA

Manzana are a Finnish, female fronted metal band, that have released three albums and toured Europe five times, and made it on Finnish charts with two albums. Manzana is a gothically darkened edition of Bon Jovi, with stories of Panda Girls, Mermaids, Lesbian Killers, Good Hearted Roadies and of course of A Broken Heart.

Manzana has toured with bands like Lovex, Entwine, Lullacry, Apulanta, Sparzanza and Vanity Ink.

The singer Piritta Lumous has appeared on most Finnish Magazines and radios, Headbangers Ball MTV, and sung on the biggest Finnish TV music show, Tartu Mikkiin. She has lately also received front page publicity with her rough and personal debut novel Roadkill, that partly tells about the European tours of Manzana, and is claimed to be the most unique rock´n roll novel in Finland for years. ( Aamulehti )

First Manzana album was released by the bands own TRC - Records ( Playground ), second album by Dynamic Arts Records, third album by Tuupa Records ( Playground ). First album had producer help from Aksu Hanttu. ( Entwine, Korpiklaani ).

Genre	Rock -Metal -Grunge Members	Piritta Lumous - Vocals, lyrics Henkka Virsell - Guitars, programming Tomi Ylönen - Drums ( Elias Viljanen & Evil Spirit ) Johannes Tolonen - Bass ( Katra, Nocturn, Minerva )

Ex Memebers :

Klasu Wirzenius ( 2008- 2011 ) ( Dave Lindolm, Pate Mustajärvi ) Heikki Malmberg ( 2004- 2009 ) ( Diablo ) Ville Mäkinen ( 2004 - 2008 ) ( Bombfunk MC´s )

Hometown	       TAMPERE, FINLAND Record Label	       Tuupa Records / Playground Music Influences 	       Tori Amos, Iron Maiden,Rammstein, Bon Jovi and Faith No More. Current Location	Tampere, Finland

Contact Info

Website	http://www.myspace.com/manzanaband http://www.last.fm/music/Manzana http://www.manzana.fi              http://www.manzanamusic.blogspot.com