Kalevi Louhivuori was born in 1984 into a small town called Orivesi. When he was one year old his family moved to a bigger city, Jyväskylä. He grew up in a musical family. Everyone of his family is a musician. Kalevi´s first instrument in a age of 9 was the drumset. Few years later his mother gave him a trumpet. First years he didn´t really practise but because of his attraction to a beautiful girl on his class who played cornet, he decided to practise more to get her attention..
His elder brother Olavi was one of the most important reasons for Kalevi to start listening to Jazz. When he was 15 years old, Olavi already had a jazz trio ( called Joona Toivanen trio) which had gigs all over Finland. He played few years every tuesday and saturday in Jazz Bar(which is an important place for jazz music in Jyväskylä) with the trio on a jam session. This experience gave him new perspectives on how to play music.
These days Kalevi has his own band called SUN-trio, which has won the Young Nordic Jazz Competition in October 2006. He also got the soloist price in the competition. Kalevi has been touring and giving workshops around the world, for example in Australia, Malesia, Singapore, Africa, United States and Europe.
He is also a composer, arranger, song writer and a producer. He´s compoising music to various different ensembles and also big bands. He´s not only creating new elements to jazz but also to reggae, afrobeat, hip-hop, soul, ska etc. He has performed with many famous musicians such as Bob Mintzer, Ingrid Jensen, Dave Liedman, Hugh Masekela, Randy Brecker just to name a few. You can hear him in various different bands such as SUN, Cape Nape and the Foundation (album coming on spring 2007), Vibraltar (album coming on 2007) Junior All Star Big Band, Asa, Myöhä, Gabro and Frank, Deep Root Sound System and Piirpauke etc.