Vanilla Ninja

Vanilla Ninja is an Estonian all-female rock band which enjoyed chart success in a number of countries across Europe, especially in Estonia, Germany, and Austria. They represented Switzerland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2005 with the song "Cool Vibes", and represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest 2026 with "Too Epic to Be True". Formed in 2002, the band was originally a four-piece group consisting of Maarja Kivi, Lenna Kuurmaa, Katrin Siska, and Piret Järvis. Kivi left the group in 2004 and was replaced by Triinu Kivilaan. Kivilaan also left in 2005, rejoined in 2021, and left again in 2022 along with Siska. After their debut single "Club Kung Fu" was released in 2003, the band had many hits in Central Europe, including "Tough Enough", "When the Indians Cry", "Blue Tattoo", and "I Know". Vanilla Ninja are popular in their native Estonia and have had a brand of both ice cream and curd snack named after them, marketed exclusively in their home country due to their celebrity status there. The band has released five studio albums: Vanilla Ninja (2003), Traces of Sadness (2004), Blue Tattoo (2005), Love Is War (2006), and Encore (2021).