Biography
There are at least three artists with this name:
1) Riina (Korean: 리이나) is a South Korean idol under GLG Entertainment. She is a vocalist of the K-pop girl group, H1-KEY; and she debuted on November 29, 2021.
2) Riina (Riina Mikkonen born in 1977) is a Finnish singer-songwriter who only made one album called Valveilla unessa (Awake in a dream). She has a background in acting in theatre and in musicals in her hometown Joensuu and she studied piano and singing in the University of Helsinki. She has also been a dancer, a model, and a poet. Riina has always been a curious traveller and her love for India shows in her songs.
Her only album came out in 1998 with 10 songs in it, all of which were written by her. (One of the songs had lyrics made by Kalle Chydenius). Soon after that she disappeared to India to live in Amma's a.k.a. Mata Amritanandamayi's ashram and is known there as Uma.
3) RIINA was a stage name used by Rina Sawayama for her single "Terror". The alias was intended to be a simpler version of her name for English speakers, but she instead decided to use her full name in future releases.
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