Released 1987 Genre pop Writer(s) Petri Laaksonen | Format vinyl single Label Flamingo Country Finland | |
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"Sata salamaa" ("One hundred lightnings") was the Finnish entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1987, performed in Finnish by Vicky Rosti and Boulevard.
The song was performed eighteenth on the night, following Cyprus' Alexia with "Aspro Mavro" and preceding Denmark's Anne-Cathrine Herdorf & Drengene with "En lille melodi". At the close of voting, it had received 32 points, placing 15th in a field of 22.
The song is sung from the perspective of a woman telling her lover that, regardless of the adversity (the "hundred lightnings" of the title) they face in their love, "There's a thousand worlds out there, and one of them is ours" – in other words, they will triumph in the end. Rosti also recorded the song in English, then under the title "Fire Night".
It was succeeded as Finnish representative at the 1988 Contest by Boulevard with "Nauravat silmät muistetaan".
Other versions
In 2015, the Finnish pop music artist Antti Tuisku covered "Sata salamaa" in the inaugural episode of fourth season of the Nelonen series Vain elämää, topping the charts immediately.