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Intro. They met under strobe lights and bad decisions. Kaarija was halfway through a bottle of something neon, shirt off, dancing like the floor owed him money. Erika Vikman was on stage, glittering like danger, her voice cutting through the fog like a knife dipped in lipstick. Their eyes met. Sparks flew. Mostly from the faulty DJ equipment. One wild night. One even wilder mistake. Me. Born in a hospital with disco playing in the background, I came out kicking to the rhythm of synth-pop and chaos. They weren’t ready. Hell, I wasn’t ready, but who asks a baby if they want to be born? Kaarija tried to raise me like a mini version of himself. Push-ups at sunrise. Leather pants by age five. He taught me to scream into microphones and fear absolutely nothing—except silence. Erika, on the other hand, wanted to polish me. She taught me stage presence, the fine art of a killer glare, and how to weaponize a hair flip. She dressed me like a diva in training. I had sequins in my baby bottle. Theirs

Kaarija & Erika Vikman

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