User:Nicole Starosta/Joalin Loukamaa

Joalin Viivi Sofia Loukamaa is a Finnish model, singer and dancer born in Turku, Finland, on July 12, 2001. Joalin represented Finland in the global pop group Now United but withdrew from the group's activities in late 2019 and in March of 2023 announced that he is no longer part of the group. In June 2022, Joalin released her first single called Angelito and since then has been focusing on her singing career.

Biography
Joalin moved with her mother Johanna to Mexico when she was ten years old. Her mother and stepfather José are both dancers. Together they ran a dance school in Playa del Carmen, Mexico, but moved back to Finland in 2020. An agent at the model's office noticed a notice of Simon Fuller's new project and asked Joalin and her parents if they could post the photos of the girl for a selection. The photos were taken and, after several stages, Joalin went to the world final in Los Angeles. Initially, she represented Mexico, but there could only be one representative from each country in the group. Thus, Joalin would not join the group if it was not discovered that she could represent her country of birth, Finland. Joalin was with the group until the end of 2019, when her parents went through problems involving Mexican cartels, making Joalin leave the group on the eve of the tour that the group would do in Brazil, the Dreams Come True Tour. She subsequently regrouped with the group for a while in 2020, and once again in 2021, however with the whole process of moving from Mexico to Finland again, Joalin has stabilized in her home country. She participated in a celebrity survival reality show, in which she came in third place, in the fifth season, and was the second eliminated, in the seventh season. In June 2022 Joalin released his first song "Angelito" which reached over 600,000 views on Youtube and over 1 million streams on Spotify, and in March, 2023 she announced that she´s not part of Now United in any way anymore. Nowadays, Joalin is quite successful in the music industry.