Jemina and Selina Sillanpää have been studying music since they were still in kindergarten. Their formal studies took place in Lahti Music School but through the years they played and studied folk music at home and at festivals and courses. They have always been interested in dance and theatre as well as music, and at the moment Selina is studying musical theatre at Lahti University of Applied Sciences and Jemina is studying acting at the Theatre Academy in Helsinki. Jemina has also been acting in TV and in two long movies that premiered in the fall of 2006.

Seppo has been playing folk and country music since he was a teenager. His first professional group was called Vanha Isäntä and during that time he also worked as a studio musician and also as a visiting musician for other bands such as Cumulus and Pihasoittajat. The first Seppo Sillanpää solo recordings came out some ten years later after a period of finishing studies of musicology, teaching music and several radio jobs. The CDs Akustin Polska and Lamentarola led to the formation of a new string band that played on biggest folk festivals in Finland in the beginning of the 90s including backing up Peter Rowan at Kaustinen 1991.