STRATOVARIUS Bassist LAURI PORRA: Video Footage Of FINNISH METAL EXPO Clinic Available

A short video clip of STRATOVARIUS bassist Lauri Porra's Finnish Metal Expo clinic, which was held this past weekend in Helsinki, Finland, can be viewed below (courtesy of "sevils").

Lauri Porra released his new solo album, "All Children Have Superpowers" on January 9. Three songs from the CD — "Release", "Changes in Memory" and "All Children Have Superpowers" — are available for streaming on Lauri's MySpace page.

Porra was born on December 13, 1977. He is a fourth-generation musician and started to study music at the age of six, playing cello and later changing to bass guitar in 1993. He studied in the Helsinki Pop & Jazz Conservatory since 1994, and he recieved the Nokia Young Talent Scolarship in 2001. Other formal studies have been on piano, double bass, trumpet and classical singing. He has been playing and touring all around the world professionally since 1997 in numerous Finnish bands and styles varying from classical to jazz to heavy metal. Bands include: STRATOVARIUS, SINERGY, WARMEN, KOTIPELTO, BEN GRANFELT BAND, EMMA SALOKOSKI TRIO, CRAZY WORLD, and countless others. In 2005 he is released his first, self-titled solo album, "Lauri Porra".