Member in bands
HARRY IS CURRENT MEMBER IN
| Name | Instrument | Member from |
|---|---|---|
| Passionworks | Vocals | 1998 - |
Biography
I was born 45 days before Jimi Hendrix died.
My earliest memories of experiencing something big and definitive was when I was watching TV when ABBA won the Eurovision Song Contest. It really was something that I got stuck with. Because I was only three years old at the time, I did not know the “experience’s” name so I started to call them “Waterloo Peoples” (in Finnish: “Waterloo-väet”). “Waterloo Peoples” soon became an obsession to me.
As a child I was timid but not shy. I was afraid of draught excluders (they looked like snakes!), the dark and transformers in the electricity transmission line posts (not because of the electricity danger but because they looked so frightening!) I’m still afraid of transformers and such.
When I was eight I fell from a tree; I was playing Pippi Longstocking and got a v-shaped scar on my cheeck as a memory of it. My childhood was mostly all sunshine until I was four when I got a little sister. My comment was short and to the point: “That baby can be brought to the refuse dump!”
Singing was me: I started to sing at the same time I learned to talk. Due to my mother’s work (she worked as a director in an old people’s home) our family had an apartment in old people’s home; so it was self-evident that I performed in every event and ceremony there. The first was when I was two: I performed “Mä olen niin pienoinen” (“I am so little”) sitting on my mother’s aunt’s lap.
I started to play the piano when I was six and I studied it (classical) until I was twenty-two. My technique, however, was not good enough but my interpretation saved me in tough situations: examinations, concerts and so on. Nowadays I play the piano only when I’m composing songs. I should practice it again, I know.
Obsessions followed one another. As a teenager I lost my mind and got crazy with Duran Duran’s John Taylor so badly that my mother was about to take me to see a shrink. I may still go crazy with a (rock or whatever) star. Last it happened with Papageno in Mozart’s Magic Flute in the Finnish National Opera…
In music the most important thing for me is that it touches; finds a straight way into my soul to get stuck there permanently. Ever since ABBA there has been one BIG thing at a time filling my consciousness and my heart: the past six years it has been MUSE. There have also been other long seasons like: Duran Duran, Kim Wilde, Heart, Bon Jovi, All About Eve, Don Huonot etc. During the past ten years bands and artists like Radiohead, Jeff Buckley, Cave In, Chris Cornell - just to name but a few- have also been very important for me.
I live at nights.You recognize me by my “animal-ear-hats” and because of the fact that I’m always late. I concentrate on irrelevancies and I can’t say things in a nutshell. I take music far too seriously and now it seems that…Apocalyptica is my next obsession ;)
Microphone: Shure Beta58
