Finnish politicians have long used saunas, relaxed but exposing, as an ideal setting for hard talks, a practice known as “sauna diplomacy.” KAJ wear drab suits onstage in tribute to Urho Kekkonen, a long-serving Finnish president who famously deployed the technique in talks with Finland’s overbearing neighbor the Soviet Union.

There’s one word you hear more than any other in Basel during the Eurovision Song Contest: Sauna. The northern Swiss city isn't known as an epicenter of steamy wood-cabin relaxation, but the small municipality of Vora in Finland is,

KAJ are tipped to win Eurovision with a song about saunas – so it’s appropriate that they made a guest appearance at a Finnish bath at the event on Wednesday. Their song, "Baru Bada Bastu", is a celebration of Finnish sauna culture,