Hey! I am Eeli, better known as Thnked in the world of internet. I am an 22 year old producer, singer & songwriter from Finland. I’ve been making music for about 9 years now.

In my childhood I never had a passion for music nor did I ever really care about it that much. However I come from a quite musical family, my sister singing and relatives doing a bit of everything. I always hated my sister’s singing and I would always tell her to shut her mouth, but I’m glad she never did thinking back on it. I mean I’d never pick up the mic ever again if I heard that myself.

I got my first guitar when I was 12 and I was super excited to start to play tracks by Metallica & other bands on the game Rocksmith 2014 as I had listened to rock music pretty much for my whole life then. I got okay at the guitar and to this day it’s been super beneficial being able to record bits of it by myself. I’m still practicing it here and there, but I like to blame my short fingers for being bad at it – same goes for piano, I’ve tried, but it’s just yeah the short fingers for sure.

Anywayss there was this one summer when me and my best friend discovered the software Magix Music Maker and we decided to compete on who makes the best song. Since we were both gamers it was inevitable. He won, but that was my first times using an DAW. It wasn’t long until I found out about FL Studio Demo and we once again decided to challenge each other. I don’t remember who won, but that is when my passion for music started to unfold however I still was not hooked since it was hard and well who likes banging their head against the wall 24/7.

Around this time maybe a little earlier my family got our first dog who we named after the movie Brother Bear and gave him the name “Koda”. He became a super significant part of my life. If I had a bad day he would sense it and come near me. I would also sometimes for hours just sit and give scratches to him or just in general hang out with him. He was a super unique dog and super well behaved except when he got excited. He unfortunately had to be put down due to him getting paralyzed for an unknown reason.

I had played sports for my whole life pretty much since the age of 4 and it had always been my passion. That changed after I injured both of my knees which would make it difficult for me to enjoy the sport again as it really slowed down my progress and put me behind the others. I felt like all the hard work was just gone and I was laughed at for my silly mistakes. That’s when music started to become the thing I wanted to put all my effort in to.

I eventually dropped sports and started to produce music more consistently. I had been doing it for 2 years at the time as more of a hobby, but I felt like it was time to give it my all and really learn. I was super hungry for knowledge so I would literally watch tons of tutorials online, join online communities to get feedback & opportunities and so on. This is when I started to use Koda as my logo and later on in 2023 in my mask. It looke cool and it kinda resembles the way I just love dogs. My biggest inspirations here at the time were definitely anyone who did POP & EDM so Kygo was a huge one, Avicii and Alan Walker to name a few.

Everything about how I viewed music changed even when I was listening to it. Instead of listening to it normally and enjoying it, I would first have to study the arrangement and sound selection of the song and analyze how every element was placed in the song. I just became super obsessed with producing music and the world pretty much became my library.

In 2021 I started posting remixes on youtube and building my career on top of that. At the end of 2022 I started also singing and writing my own songs.

To this day I’ve gathered a total of +11 000 000 views on Youtube, +2 000 000 streams on Spotify and +40 000 followers across the platforms and I’ve done a ton of different stuff including remakes and ghost productions to further support my career. I’m not really a numbers guy, but I find a sense of achievement in them reminding me of how far I’ve come in just a short period of time. Being an artist isn’t easy, so it’s sometimes nice to reflect back in the moments I’m struggling the most.

This was a brief recap to my musical journey. Theres obvs more ups and downs and things to tell about, but what unites all of these years is me sitting in my room either gaming, making music or doing sports