Mandi appeared in the New Happy Theatre in Linnanmäki in summer 1999.
Mandi appeared in the Eurovision Song Contest episode of Laulava Sydän ("Singing Heart"), performing the Eurovision song Pump Pump by Fredi.
In 2004 she and her father appeared in the Turku Castle Theatre play Älä soita äidille ("Don't call Mama").
The death was said to be "sudden" by the media; no other details were made public at the time.
In February 2009 her mother gave an interview to the Finnish magazine Me Naiset, in which she talked about her daughter, confirming the earlier suspicions that Mandi died by suicide.