Gettomasa is coming back from a break of more than a year, a comeback gig in June

Jyväskylä

Plasterer Gettomasa, as it is called Aleksi Lehikoinen returns from his break of about a year and a half.

Lehikoinen announced the matter at a press conference held at Jyväskylä City Hall on Wednesday. At the same time, Lehikoinen announced that he will organize his return gig in Jyväskylä at the Hippos baseball stadium on June 13. Gettomasa will also release a new song on Friday.

32 years old Lehikoinen unexpectedly announced in August 2024 that he would be on an indefinite hiatus. The artist announced it on Instagram before his last gig at Allas Sea Pool on August 24, 2024.

“Beautiful ladies and gentlemen, there are no concerts in the fall. And there probably won’t be concerts next year either. Honestly, I’ll throw you a concert next time when I run out of money,” Lehikoinen said in his Instagram video.

Lehikoinen was asked at Wednesday’s press conference if his return means that now the money is over.

“I knew how to wait for this to be asked,” Lehikoinen said.

He said that he meant his comments primarily with humor, because often news of artists’ comebacks is referred to as saying that they are making their comeback because they have run out of money. According to Lehikoinen, he could not have guessed that the comment announced on social media would remain alive so strongly.

Central Finland according to Lehikoinen had already said at his gig in his hometown Jyväskylä a good month earlier in July that he would not be seen performing in the city for a couple of years.

Ilta-Sanomat said in August 2024 that Lehikoinen had shed more light on the reasons for his hiatus at his last gig. Among other things, Lehikoinen said that he suffered from exhaustion after working in the music industry for a long time.

“How many of you have been in the same dune place for ten years? That’s quite a long time. I need one year, I have to do something else. I have to take care of my mental side,” Lehikoinen said at the gig.

In addition to this, Lehikoinen said that he suffered from back pain at the gig. He also pointed out that during 2024, he had received “shit in the neck” from fans. Earlier in the same year had hit the headlines Gettomasa’s gig at the Himos Juhannus festival, where he had, among other things, called members of the audience “disabled”.

Leafy has remained mostly out of the public eye since August 2024. No new music has been released by him since then, except for the Shakkii-duo single released in September 2024 Makavelsfeaturing Gettomasa.

At the beginning of 2025, Lehikoinen action In Jyväskylä as a DJ Aren and Rekamin on record labels as Dj Kapteeniupponanne. The artist was also seen in Yle in August Where are you from? in the new season of the documentary series.

At the beginning of 2026, Gettomasa returned to social media. Her Instagram account had all previous posts removed when she posted her first new photo there on January 4. The next day, he published a video on Instagram and Tiktok, with the artist’s speech in the background.

“Gloominess took over the world. It was as if all our values ​​had become unnecessary. The only things that mattered anymore were numbers, likes, followers, money, matter. The means by which they were achieved no longer meant anything,” Lehikoinen said in the video.

Gettomasa has been one of Finland’s most popular musicians in recent years. In 2024, he was the fourth most listened to artist in Finland on Spotify, in 2023 the second most listened to.

The artist’s biggest hit was released in 2022 On a champagne diet. Gettomasa, who has released four solo albums in his career, has been awarded at the Emma gala twice with the rap/r&b award of the year, once for the album of the year and once for the best-selling album of the year.