# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/kaarija
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:16:02.708Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/kaarija"
name: "Käärijä"
slug: "kaarija"
description: "Jere Mikael Pöyhönen, known professionally as Käärijä, is a Finnish rapper, singer and songwriter. He represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2023 with the song \"Cha Cha Cha\", placing second with 526 points and finishing first in the public vote with 376. His entry topped the charts in Finland, Sweden, Latvia and Lithuania and reached the top ten in thirteen other countries, becoming the first song in Finnish to reach the top ten of the UK Singles Chart."
tagline: "Finnish rapper, singer and songwriter"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4_Eurovision_Song_Contest_Final_2024_interval_act_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1993-10-21"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           76.99
  momentum:             10.31417624521073
  historical:           24.456744
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     90
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 146000
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/paidatonriehuja/"
    handle:    "paidatonriehuja"
  - platform:  "TIKTOK"
    url:       "https://www.tiktok.com/@paidatonriehuja"
    handle:    "paidatonriehuja"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/kaarijaofficial"
    handle:    "kaarijaofficial"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm12865216/"
    handle:    "nm12865216"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/6LkMGN0t3HDNL8hIvma70r"
    handle:    "6LkMGN0t3HDNL8hIvma70r"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6azl83h9L7uqy0ChHk9VaQ"
    handle:    "@kaarijaofficial"
    followers: 146000
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%83%D8%A7%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%A7_(%D9%85%D8%BA%D9%86%D9%8A)"
    title: "كاريا (مغني)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%8F"
    title: "Каария"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "کاریا (خواننده)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "קרייה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ie.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikiquote.org/wiki/K%C3%A4%C3%A4rij%C3%A4"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/7d863b14-ff39-49e0-9efc-956e15769457"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q57943893"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3950265"
    title: "Käärijä"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump