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Ville Hermanni Valo (born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist, best known as the lead vocalist and main songwriter of the Finnish gothic rock band HIM. Valo began his career playing bass and drums in various bands around Helsinki, before forming HIM in 1991. The band would go on to become one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time, and…
Known for
- Bam Margera Presents: The 69 Eyes - Lost Boys Never Die!2025
- We Just Wanna Have a Good Time All the Time — Self2023
- Then the Times, They Changed — Self2022
- H.I.M. - Loud Legacy2015
- Die Oliver Pocher Show — self2009
- Bam Margera Presents: Where The #$&% Is Santa? — Self2008
- Promised Land of Heavy Metal — Self - HIM2008
- HIM - Digital Versatile Doom — Self2008
- Jackass Number Two — Self (uncredited)2006
- HIM: Love Metal Archives Vol. 12005
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Finland
- Active from
- 1976
Discography
- Summer Wine2007
- Ville Valo & Agents2019
- Gothica Fennica Vol. 12020
- Neon Noir2023
Member of
- HIMsince 1991
- Agentssince 2019
- Daniel Lioneye
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 83,352
- Total plays
- 657,305
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Ville Hermanni Valo (born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the lead vocalist of the gothic rock band HIM. Born and raised in Helsinki to a Hungarian mother and Finnish father, Valo began his career playing bass and drums in various bands around the city. In 1991, he co-founded and became the lead singer and main songwriter of HIM, which would go on to become one of the most successful Finnish bands of all time and the first to receive a gold re
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The repertoire of mutational signatures in human cancer
· 2020 · cited 3,327x
- Pan-cancer analysis of whole genomes
· 2020 · cited 2,823x
- Ab initio molecular simulations with numeric atom-centered orbitals
· 2009 · cited 2,680x
- Global burden of 288 causes of death and life expectancy decomposition in 204 countries and territories and 811 subnational locations, 1990–2021: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021
· 2024 · cited 2,545x
- Landscape of somatic mutations in 560 breast cancer whole-genome sequences
· 2016 · cited 2,056x
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Quotes
- “Women are always beautiful”
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1976-11-22 ) 22 November 1976 (age 49) , Helsinki , Finland
- Other names
- Balo the Singing Janitor Bil Bao Lux Airam Rambo Rimbaud VV
- Occupations
- Singer songwriter musician producer
- Relatives
- Jesse Valo (brother)
- Instruments
- Vocals keyboards guitar bass drums
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Labels
- BMG Sire Razor & Tie Double Cross Universal Music Group Spinefarm
- Formerly of
- HIM Daniel Lioneye Agents
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Works in European collections
2 objects attributed to Ville Valo, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
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Encyclopedic overview
Ville Hermanni Valo ( pronounced [ˈʋilːe ˈʋɑlo] ; born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer, songwriter and musician. He is best known as the vocalist of the gothic rock band HIM.
Valo began his career playing bass and drums in various bands around the city. In 1991, he co-founded and became the singer and main songwriter of HIM, which would go on to become one of the most successful Finnish bands of all time and the first to receive a gold record in the United States. Outside of HIM, Valo has collaborated with various other bands and artists during his career, including Agents, The 69 Eyes, and Apocalyptica. In 2020, Valo embarked on a solo career under the moniker VV. His debut album Neon Noir was released in 2023.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Ville Valo” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.