Koriseva has sold over 330,000 certified records, making her the seventh best-selling female soloist in Finland.

Once a storm blew down a birch tree in the school yard, we made firewood from it and carried them inside.” (Nyman, p. 51) Koriseva grew up in a family inclined towards music: her parents were both active in their church choir, and Koriseva's maternal uncle, Erkki Friman, is a harmonikka player (The Finnish harmonikka is not a mouth organ.

31 October 1963), sang with the Peräkylä Boys band in youth hostels, holiday camps, restaurants and various other places in central Finland from 1978.

When the Peräkylä Boys broke up to continue their studies, the Koriseva sisters created a new band, Kastanja (“Chestnut”).

I woke up early in the morning, put on a long-sleeved shirt and drove to the edge of the field to gather corncobs.

In 1985, Koriseva enrolled in the Hämeenlinna teacher training college and got qualified in 1989, specialising in PE and Finnish language.

She engaged a new orchestra, Fortuna, and began to rehearse the tangos Kultaiset korvarenkaat and Vie meidät rakkauteen.

After passing the preliminary heats, Koriseva applied for a temporary teaching post in case she was not successful at the Tangomarkkinat finals.

Dressed in a stage gown made by her sister Eija, she became the Tango Queen at her first attempt and turned the Tangomarkkinat from a local festival to an event of national importance.

Since then, Koriseva has recorded 15 albums (up to September 2007), and appeared in concerts and at dance halls all over Finland, as well as Canada, Australia, Switzerland, Jordan, and the UK.

several times; she and Joel Hallikainen presented the musical game show Jos sais kerran in 2002–2003; and she was the heroine in the children's programme Hilarius and Loru-Liisa, with a giant mouse.