Rama   (Finland)

EuroDance group
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Latest Rama news

05/07/2024 : Rama's new single is a euro-reggae song entitled Only Broken Heart and it is out today (thanks to Markku Raski)

05/07/2023 : Rama's next single will be entitled Feelings. Only the first track one will be released on streaming and download portals. The other versions will only be available on CD, a limited edition (100 pcs) only available directly from Rama's label.

05/06/2023 : Rama's new single is entitled Shooting Star

25/05/2022 : Rama's next single is entitled Happy Summer. Featuring vocals by Merja Raski, this song was the initially planned follow-up single to Light My Fire (thanks to Markku Raski)

03/05/2022 : New Rama single is a happy hardcore song entitled Rave On. It was originally played as a demo on Finnish national radio in 1997

08/03/2022 : Rama's next single will be entitled Don't You Worry

28/11/2021 : Rama's new single is entitled Cryin' Out, a eurodance song which was originally released on compilations only aournd 1994

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Rama singles

	Crying Out Compilation only	1994	BUY X
	Light My Fire	1996	BUY X
	Broken Heart EP	9th Nov 2013	BUY X
	Driving In The Galaxy Compilation only	22nd Dec 2016	BUY X
	Gravity Compilation only	2017	BUY X
	Light My Fire (The 25th Anniversary)	11th Jun 2021	BUY X
	Take My Love	8th Oct 2021	BUY X
	Cryin' Out	19th Nov 2021	BUY X
	Don't You Worry	11th Mar 2022	BUY X
	Rave On	22nd Apr 2022	BUY X
	Happy Summer	27th May 2022	BUY X
	Shooting Star	2nd Jun 2023	BUY X
	Feelings	7th Jul 2023	BUY X
	Only Broken Heart	5th Jul 2024	BUY X

Rama remixes

Light My Fire (The 25th Anniversary)

30th Jul 2021

BUY X

Featurings and collaborations

	DJ Ice K - Living On Video	18th Apr 2019	BUY X
	DJ Ice K - Better Off Alone	5th Jul 2019	BUY X

Rama biography

Rama is a Finnish project created by the producer Markku Raski from Köyliö (Finland). Project's name is made from his last name and first name's first syllabs. He bought his first material with the money earned during a summer job. He started gaining wome recognition when his first productions aired on Tapani Ripatti's radio show. In 1995; he signed a record deal with Blue Bubble and released a song called Crying Out as a compilation track only, on various samplers such as Energy dance.

Follow-up song was released as a single in 1996. Light My Fire featured the rapper Raymond Ebanks (who also took part to the Bomfunk MC's). Female vocalist and songwriter was Merja Raski, Markku's sister, who won a Finnish tango contest in 1993. The single stayed several weeks number one in Finnish Disco/Dance chart in 1996. The co-producers were Kaippa Kaivola and James Black (also known from the project like 3rd Nation).

Markku Raski teamed up with Juha Sahlstein to produce a eurotrance project called Endorfin.

Not to be confused with the English project Rama which sung C'est La Vie in 1995.

2012 : Markku Raski released on Rama's Youtube-channel a demo made with the same studio set-up as the original Light My Fire during the era 1995–1996. The demo consisted of Finnish and international traditional christmas hymnes and carols produced in Eurodance-style as a medley with lots of warmth and joy of christmas time in mind. Nowaydas Markku, as a car and vehicle enthusiast, has his own company "Automodels" to sell and distribute model cars and other scale-model vehicles worldwide. This video with "Dance Christmas"-medley was made to promote the Christmas sales.

2013 : an EP entitled Broken Heart was released.

2015 : a Fan mix for Light My Fire was released.

2016 : an instrumental song called Driving In The Galaxy was released on compilation Space Holidays vol. 8.

2017 : song Gravity was released on compilation Space Holidays vol. 9

2021 : Rama released a 25th anniversary edition of Light My Fire. Then the song Take My Love was released. Then a new single entitled Cryin' Out was out, a song which was so far only released on compilations.

2022 : after Don't You Worry and the happy hardcore Rave On, a new single was released : Happy Summer, the initially planned follow-up single to the hit Light My Fire

2023 : Rama released 2 new singles : Shooting Star and Feelings

Thanks to Gianni, Mikeboy - Finnish Eurodance, Juha Sahlstein from Endorfin, and JakeX

Rama biography was last updated Sat, August 5th 2023

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