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Taina Kokkonen
Taina Kokkonen (born 15 May 1975 in Vantaa near Helsinki, Finland) is a former award-winning Finnish singer.
She has performed on Italian TV, in Brussels, and in Argentina and Uruguay as part of the Tango 2000 educational tour.
She first tried for the prestigious Tangomarkkinat competition in 1995, but did not reach the semifinals. In 1996 she got through the Raisio semifinals and was one of the 10 best. She rather frightened herself with her success:
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became a Master of Education Sciences and a teacher in Hämeenlinna.
At the moment she works as a class teacher in Vantaa.
Year 2007 Kokkonen got married to a man called Cemo Timucin - working in an IT-branch and is educated as a Master of engineering and they live in Vantaa with their son Tino.
Year 2009 Taina Kokkonen worked during the summertime as a radiohost having morning programs in a local radiostation near Helsinki resort.
Taina Kokkonen the singer is not the same person as Taina Kokkonen the printmaker