Annikki Tähti (in 1959–1978 Tähti-Tiensuu; 5 December 1929 – 19 June 2017) was a Finnish schlager singer, known for her wide repertoire ranging from waltz and tango to swing and Latin music, over a career lasting more than fifty years.

[1] Tähti's career began when a colleague arranged, behind her back, an audition with the composer and conductor George de Godzinsky in 1950.

[2] After a few years working together, with de Godzinsky coaching and preparing Tähti for a singing career, she signed a deal with the newly established Scandia record label.

[6] More than forty years later, Tähti gained a new, younger audience,[2] when she reprised her iconic Muistatko Monrepos’n in Aki Kaurismäki's 2002 film The Man Without a Past, as a Salvation Army flea market manager performing at a juhannus party for homeless people.

[5] Tähti spent her last years largely alone in a care home, her husband and son having died earlier, and she having no siblings or other close family.