Ville Valo
Ville Hermanni Valo [ vil ː ɛ vɑlɔ ] ( born November 22, 1976 in Helsinki) is a Finnish rock musician, singer and songwriter of the band HIM, which was founded in 1995, and drummer in the band Daniel Lioneye of HIM guitarist Linde / Lily Lazer.
Life
Ville Hermanni Valo was born on November 22, 1976 in Helsinki Vallila district and has a younger brother named Jesse by eight years. His mother Anita is Hungarian, his father Kari is Finn. Valo has suffered since he was 6 years from asthma. Triggers of asthma to have been a traumatic shock when his dog died. Since this experience he has, you still allergies. His childhood, he still describes as very beautiful. Since his early childhood he deals with music. He plays bass guitar, guitar, keyboard, piano and percussion.
Ville Valo celebrated with the band HIM in 2000 his greatest successes, as they with their hit Join Me in Death led the German charts for several weeks. In 2004 he took on the song Bittersweet Apocalyptica and Lauri Ylönen of The Rasmus. After the world tour to HIM published in 2005, fifth album Dark Light was dedicated to Ville Valo various solo projects.
Beginning of 2007 was that of Valo sung together with actress Natalia Avelon Summer Wine cover of which comes from the movie soundtrack of The Wild Life, for weeks in the top ten places in the singles charts; among other things, they reached number one in Finland and spent several weeks at number two in Germany. The song was composed by Lee Hazlewood, the most famous former interpretation comes from him and Nancy Sinatra.
Others
Valo is a member of Turbojugend, avid chess player and member of the German chess club SK chaos Mannheim, in the framework of a PR event could win a federation league game of him and his band mates even.
His role models include Gene Simmons, Clint Eastwood, Edgar Allan Poe and rauli " Badding " Somerjoki. He also wished always that his father was Clint Eastwood. In an interview he said: " Shit happens! " On his back, the eyes of Edgar Allan Poe, as stated by tattooed.
By his own account he smoked earlier three to four packs of cigarettes per day, smoking was but 2010.
He is the designer of the Heartagram Band Logos of HIM.
As one of his best friends is true Bam Margera, cast in the Jackass and Viva La Bam shipments. He also produced some HIM music videos.