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A Singer-songwriter from Finland. Born 1975 in Savonlinna, eastern Finland. Lives in Helsinki since 2007. Ville´s first solo album “Raastinlauluja” was released 1997 as a cassette, and later 2002 as a CD by Fonal Records. Other solo albums are “Suudelmitar” 2004, and “Hei!” 2007, released by Poko Rekords. During the years 2000-06 a Finnish record label, Poko Rekords, released four studio albums, two live albums and a double compilation-CD of Ville Leinonen & Valumo, the rockband. Valumo´s music was a mixture of Finnish rautalanka and tango, early Alice Cooper band, Spiders from Mars and French 70´s alternative pop music. Valumo was born 1998, and it lived for eight years playing concerts around Finland. Today it´s dead and buried. Alongside of hundreds of troubadour- and band gigs Ville has also played with different groups, such as ES, Risto, Islaja, Teemu Elon Puhuvat Eläimet, Kiila, Office Building… |
