Biography


First single Not Gonna Stop was released 2017, with Joensuun Popmuusikot ry's financial help. The single included two songs. MajBird have released 9 songs, Not Gonna Stop & Change the World (2017), Escape (2019), Still Alive (2019), Place for Me (2021), No One Knows (2021), Room 707 (2023), You Made Me (2023), and the latest Square One on May 2024. New EP is going to released 1st of Nov 2024. They're also making new music. You can find all released song here.


The name MajBird was adopted on 2024. MajBird comes from may bird, which is traditional Finnish nickname to wagtail (toukolintu).

MajBird, originally Boyar, was formed 2015 in Joensuu, where the band members,Taavi Kiiskinen (singer, songwriter), Petra Immonen (keyboardist, songwriter), Visa Forsblom (guitarist), Joonas Kaartti (the first bassplayer) and Mikko Rautiainen (drummer) first met. Band was formed to a school project but after graduation band kept on making music and playing gigs. Their very first gig was played in Kahvila Laituri Joensuu on May 2015. On 2016 Joonas Kaartti started to record band's music and Anu Kauppi joined to the band as a bass player. For one year (2018-2019) drummer Mikko studied in Leuven, Belgia, as a exchange student, and Jukka Puolakka took his place for that time. Band doesn't have permanent brass players, but Petrus Makkonen, Usva Vahanne, Jaakko Arola, Jesse-Joonas Kemppainen, Tatu Huotarinen, Lauri Ranki, Emil Dobosiewicz ja Katja Koskinen have been heard on gigs and records. 


The band won Kuopio's Street Music Competition on May 2018, and they came in third place on 2019, as jury's favourite.


MajBird played their latest gigs on summer 2024, on Varparock (Juankoski), and Parikkala Open Air-festival. Their planning to play new gigs soon!