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Profile of Linda Brava
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Linda Brava |
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26th February 1970 |
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Helsinki, Finland |
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From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia
Linda Brava (real name Linda Lampenius, born February 26, 1970) is a Finnish violinist and model. She is internationally more known as Linda Brava, while she is in Finland, she uses her real name.
Music career
Born and raised in Helsinki in a Finland-Swedish family. She started playing the violin at the age of five, her first violin teacher was the famous Gèza Szilvay. In 1987 she began studies at the Sibelius Academy's Junior Academy and went on to the Academy three years later. Between 1978 and 1993, she toured Japan, Scandinavia, Great Britain and several other European countries as a member or concertmaster of various orchestras. During 1994 to 1996 she played in the Finnish National Opera. In 1996 she was also elected as a member of the Helsinki city council. Some years later she was titled as the Tourism Ambassador of Finland in Sweden.
She has released two musical albums, Linda Lampenius in April, 1997, it can be described as a pop album and was only released in Finland. The other album Linda Brava, released worldwide in October 1999 is more a classical music album.
Model career
In 1998 she decided to pose for Playboy magazine, she became the cover girl of the April "music and sex" issue. She has also been a model for Björn Borg's brand of underwear between 1996 and 1998.
Linda cider
From 1997 to 2000, she had her own brand of cider called "Linda", about 2,5 million litres were sold.
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