Tapio Rautavaara
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Kaj Tapio Rautavaara was a Finnish singer, athlete and film actor.
Tapio Rautavaara portrait
Rautavaara (right) selling magazines at a railway station in Helsinki, 1931.
Kuuno Honkonen, Tapio Rautavaara, Pentti Siltaloppi and Salomon Könönen at the 1948 Olympics
Rautavaara in 1949
Ville Valo
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Ville Hermanni Valo is a Finnish singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the vocalist of the gothic rock band HIM.
Tapio Rautavaara
…In spring 2007 the Nokia Workers' theatre presented a play entitled Sininen uni (The Blue Dream), which was based on his life. Ville Valo, the frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM, regards Rautavaara as his greatest idol in Finnish music. Päivänsäde ja menninkäinen (The Sunbeam and the…
Valo performing with Agents in 2019
Valo at Ilosaarirock 2007
Valo at the 2010 Soundwave Festival
Valo is known for his "slow-paced seductive presence onstage"