Nina Åström is a singer and communicator from Finland who has worked for some 35 years now, performing in a great variety of settings, in more than 30 countries. She has 18 albums to her name, one of the most recent being a compilation called ‘Give me Jesus’, released in late 2019. The album ‘Avoin taivas’ from 2012 sold platinum in 2020.
A biography in Finnish ’Nina Åström Toisin silmin’, written by Leevi Launonen, came out in 2016. On Nina Åström’s Youtube channel there’s a wealth of video blogs both in Finnish and English, as also a podcast in Finnish called ‘Ateria aavikolla’. These podcasts have served as a foundation for her bilingual book Ateria aavikolla - Picnic in the Desert. The equivalent Swedish-English version is called Måltider i öknen - Picnic in the Desert (2023).
Churches, concert halls, prisons, music festivals, the Eurovision Song Contest (she represented her country year 2000), slums, tv, radio – a selection of venues where Nina Åström has performed. Wherever she performs however, she aims for a warm and direct contact with the listener and seeks to convey grace and truth in Jesus Christ. Nina has been a follower of Jesus since she was 17.
For the last 20 years or so her venues have also included some 400 prisons and drug rehabs in numerous countries, particularly those of the former Soviet Union.
Nina Åström is a fluent speaker of English, Swedish and Finnish. Her albums have been recorded in Finland, Holland, the USA and the UK. Nina Åström has an English philology major MA from University of Turku/Finland.
She is married to Benni Åström, the couple has two children and three grandchildren.