Experience: - Keyboards all my life
- Guitar since the spring of 2000
- Vocals since the spring of 2002
- Bass and Piano since the autumn of 2004
Equipment: - Peavey Valve King head
- Behringer BG412H cabinet
- Zoom GFX-4 effect console
- Yamaha RGX 112 guitar
- Korg X5D synthesizer
- Yamaha Clavinova CLP-120 digital piano
- Shure microphone
- T.bone microphone
- Behringer mixer
- Many broken wires
Favorites
Color: Dark shades of red. Actually, every color has a
reasonable place and a meaning. Even pink, it makes the
other colors look much more tolerable
Season: Summer, even though it's too short
Animal: Griffin
Country: Italy, I'd like to see Venice some day
Language: French, 8 years studying and I still don't get it
Book: Uhrilento
Writer: Ilkka Remes, Michael Crichton
Movie: Hero, The Truman Show, Kung Pow, Sleepy Hollow, Moulin Rouge,
Shrek, The Labyrinth, PS. I love you, Transformers, Troy, Pirates
of the Caribbean, Crank, Tropic Thunder, Forrest Gump, Neverending
Story, Big Fish, Princess Mononoke, Monty Pythons, LOTR, Cars,
Zoolander, Amélie, 300, Stardust, The Rock, Matrix, Hancock,
Finding Neverland, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind...
I love good movies, this list could go on forever :)
Director: Peter Jackson, Tim Burton, Michael Bay
Actor/actress: Sean Connery, Johnny Depp, Hugh Grant and Keira Knightley :)
TV-program: Friends, Top Gear, Simpsons, Monty Python
Game: The Legacy, Half-Life, TES III Morrowind, Bioshock
Weekly: Aku Ankka
Food: Indian food
Drink: Fisu
Tableware: Fork
Spice: Basil, chili
Candy: Käck, Lakrisal... I like them all
Vocals: Celine Dion, Sarah Brightman, Richard Marx,
Christina Aguilera, Eric Clapton
Guitar: Jani Liimatainen
Keyboards: Jens Johansson, Tuomas Holopainen
Bass: Jari Kainulainen
Drums: Jukka Nevalainen, Jaska Raatikainen
Composer: Tony Kakko, Tuomas Holopainen
Lyricist: You'd laugh if I told you
Band: Sonata Arctica, Nightwish, Queen, Genesis, In Flames, Michael
Kiske, Ultra Bra, Scandinavian Music Group, Stratovarius, Enya,
Last Tribe, Rainbow, The Shadows, Eric Clapton, Tehosekoitin
and Blackmore's Night to mention a few. There are so many..
Song: There are millions of great songs in the world, and
I've heard only a fragment of them. However, Con Te Partiro
is one of the greatest.
Album: Ecliptica by Sonata Arctica and Visions by Stratovarius
are best metal albums I've heard.
Biography
When I was just a few years old, I enjoyed listening christmas carols and some finnish solo artists including Kirka. When I got to school few years later, my relatives lended me keyboards. I started to find melodies of some tv themes. At the age of 12 I wanted to have drums, but I never got them. First time I started to like heavy music was at the age of 13, when a friend of mine played Anthem Of The World by Stratovarius from the album Destiny. I really liked the sound of heavy music, especially the guitar sound, though I couldn't understand why that man had to sing so high notes.. Anyway, soon that kind of singing felt to me as the only good way to sing and melodic metal/heavy music was the only music I could listen. After one year I bought a guitar, the one I still have, and a small Marshall amplifier. In that autumn I started to take lessons, and after six months with two friends of mine, we started to talk about basing a band. Again six months passed, my guitar lessons ended and we started to play together with my friends. That summer, when I was 15-year-old, I started to compose songs, and that's when I was first time asked to sing. I had never really sung before. Teacher had asked me to join a school choir, but I never went there. Maybe I would have finally stopped singing, but after winning KelloRock in 2003, I got some great positive feedback of my singing and decided to go on. In the beginning of the year 2004 our keyboard player left the band and I decided to buy a synthesizer and play it until we'd found a new player. Few months passed and we found one. Then on I've sung and played guitar again. Today I listen all kind of good music, whether it's metal or not. Maybe I actually prefer music that is not metal today. I have been also in another band as a bassist and taken piano lessons.
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