Birth name, Ville Hermanni Valo. Born November 22, 1976 (1976-11-22), Vallila, Finland. Origin: Finland. Genre(s): Debated. Occupation(s): Singer, Songwriter. Instrument(s): Vocals, Bass, Drums, Guitar, Piano. Years active 1983 - Present
Associated: HIM
acts: Daniel Lioneye
Website: Official websiteValo was born to a Finnish father named Kari and a mother of Hungarian descent named Anita in a small suburb of Helsinki called Vallila. As a child, Ville was influenced by his music-loving parents, who exposed him to the songs of popular Finnish performers such as Tapio Rautavaara and Rauli Badding Somerjoki, while an older cousin introduced him to the heavier sounds of bands like Kiss, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. Valo's first musical step was as a three year old bongo drummer. He learned to walk with the help of the family dog Sami, and when the dog died, not only was he extremely upset, he also apparently developed his allergies to animals and asthma at the same time. When Valo was at school, he was regularly in fights and considered a 'disruptive student'. To counter this, Valo would be allowed to draw in class to calm down. At the age of 18 when visiting his parents, his asthma came back. His parents had a stray dog and when Ville was around the dog his asthma came back. This sent him to the hospital for five days. His father decided to get him his own place so he couldn't have anymore asthma attacks.The son of a Finnish taxi driver and his Hungarian wife, Ville Valo was born in a small, wood-house suburb of Helsinki called Vallila. Soon after his birth his family moved to the riverside community of Oulunkyl?, where his father eventually opened a porn shop; during his late teens Ville spent a period working in the shop before launching his career in music. As a child he was influenced by his music-loving parents, who exposed him to the songs of popular Finnish performers such as Tapio Rautavaara and Rauli Badding Somerjoki, while an older cousin introduced him to the heavier sounds of bands like Kiss, Black Sabbath and Iron Maiden. His interests gradually expanded to include reggae, early blues and country-oriented material such as Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison and Neil Young. From a young age, Valo's enthusiasm for music also took a more active form of expression, and he participated in a large number of different Helsinki-based bands: B.L.O.O.D. (1986-89), Eloveena Boys (1987-88), Kemoterapia (1989-97) and numerous other, more obscure projects.In 1995 Valo enlisted old schoolmates Mikko ("Lilly Lazer") Lindstrom and Mikko ("Mig? Amour") Heinrik -- augmented by drummer Juhana Rantala and keyboardist Antto Melasniemi -- to form His Infernal Majesty, a band that blended a goth-drag presentation with heavy metal, ambiguous mysticism and dark, fatalistic romanticism (a combination that would ultimately earn the media tag of "love metal"). The name was later shortened to HIM when it became apparent that the rather Satanic implications of the full title were attracting the wrong crowd. With the release of their debut EP 666 Ways To Love: Prologue in 1996, the band began to cultivate an dedicated audience in Finland -- largely as a result of an interpretation of Chris Isaak's Wicked Game that was featured on the record. This audience expanded to include the other Scandinavian countries the following year, after their first full-length Greatest Love Songs Volume 666 hit the shelves; once again, the album included their popular version of Wicked Game, as well as a cover of Blue Oyster Cult's Don't Fear The Reaper.Enlisting the services of British producer John Fryer (known in the 80s for his work for the 4AD label, and later for work with goth-leaning bands such as Nine Inch Nails and Cradle of Filth), HIM released their second album Razorblade Romance in 2000, the track Join Me In Death in particular breaking the band across Europe. The album also gave them their first proper US release, but with a slight hiccup: due to the pre-existence of an American project called "HIM", the record was initially given a limited release under the modified name "HER". The name problem was subsequently settled through the movement of currency, and the album re-issued in its proper form. By their third effort, Deep Shadows And Brilliant Highlights (2001), the band's line-up had settled down to the original trio of Valo, Linde (Lilly), Mig? with drummer Mika ("Gas Lipstick") Karppinen and keyboardist Jani ("Emerson Burton") Purttinen; that same year, the original three also shuffled their musical roles and created the side-project Daniel Lioneye, in which Linde assumed the role of frontman. A fourth album Love Metal arrived in 2003, expanding the popularity of HIM even further and providing music journalists with a convenient tag for their approach. For it's 2005 follow-up Dark Light, production duties were assumed by veteran Andy Wallace, but after unsatisfactory results the band turned to U2, Robert Plant, Tears for Fears, (etc.) producer Tim Palmer.Bam Margera's character, "Valo," in the 2003 movie Haggard is named after Ville Valo.
He was voted as #13 on a television programme in which people voted for who they thought were the greatest Finns of all time
He has a number of tattoos, including a pair of Edgar Allan Poe's eyes on his shoulder blades. The eyes from "a tell-tale heart"
In the summer of 2007 he checked into the rehab center Promises where Lindsay Lohan and Britney Spears had been earlier that year. As of this date, he has been sober for four months.Lead singer of HIM.Good friend of Bam MargeraHe has a younger brother, Jesse, who is 8 years younger than him.Valo means light in FinnishHis favorite movie is The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993).He is half Hungerian on his mother's side.His idols include Clint Eastwood, Gene Simmons and Edgar Allan Poe.Engaged to Jonna Nygren as of 9th of July 2005. The pair have since split (March 2006)He is half Finnish and half Hungarian.Duetted with Natalia Avelon for a remake of Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood's "Summer Wine" on the soundtrack of Wilde Leben, Das (2007), reaching #2 in the German charts.Before becoming the lead singer of HIM, he had been in the bands Eloveena Boys, Aurora, Charlie Parker, Terapia, Winha, Unga Kaskelott?r, Natas, B.L.O.O.D., Kemoterapia and Donits-Osmo. He also played bass, drums and guitar.When Valo cried as an infant his father would play Paratiisi by Rauli Badding Somerjoki, and his mother would take him in her arms and dance. At this, baby Ville would cease to cry.His brother Jesse is a Thai boxer.His father Kari was a taxi driver when Ville was born,but later owned an adult shop.Was born at 8:28 AM.Although suffering from asthma, he smokes about 60 cigarettes a day to keep his husky voice.Father: Kari (taxi driver/shop owner)
Mother: Anita
Brother: Jesse (boxer, b. 1984)..
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