this is just a guess, but i don't believe that big majority of finnish singers make their total living by just singing - unless you come an international star or rob the bank in the tango markets :D
if i were you, i would seek some kind of day job at first and then would start to seek some gigs from program agencies and book up to talent contests and so on... and if you got a band of some sort, you can always try to promote yourself to regord labels. and of course that's a plus, if you got something going on in italy as well (former gigs, record deals etc.), that could be a usefull merit to show, that you got some (mad)skills :)
i honestly don't know much, but i think that there's at least something right in my text