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Lauri Porra

I´m a bass toting moron!

About Me

------ -- Lauri Porra was born 13th of December 1977. He is a fourth generation musician and started to study music at the age of 6, playing cello and later changing to bass guitar in 1993. He studied in the Helsinki pop & jazz conservatory since 1994, and he recived the Nokia young talent scolarship in 2001. Other formal studies have been on piano, double bass, trumpet and classical singing. He has been playing and touring all around the world professionally since 1997 in numerous Finnish bands and styles varying from classical to jazz to heavy metal. Bands include: Stratovarius, Sinergy, Warmen, Kotipelto, Ben Granfelt Band, Emma Salokoski Trio, Crazy World, and countless others. In 2005 he is released his first, self titled solo album "Lauri Porra"
YOU CAN BUY OR DOWNLOAD MY ALBUM FROM THE ADDRESS BELOW
http://www.levyvirasto.net/catalog/product_info.php?products _id=1070

Here´s a little bass solo I played in Caracas, Venezuela with Stratovarius

My Interests

Music:

Member Since: 2/12/2006
Band Website: WWW.LAURIPORRA.COM
Band Members:
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Influences: Everything
Record Label: Texicalli (www.texicalli.net)
Type of Label: Indie

My Blog

NEW SOLO ALBUM ANNOUNCED

All Children Have Superpowers!I´m very happy to inform you that i have finished my new solo album, it is called "All Children Have Superpowers". It will be released in Finland through Texicalli recor...
Posted by Lauri Porra on Wed, 12 Dec 2007 02:02:00 PST

R.I.P Juice Leskinen

Yesterday Juice Leskinen, one of the great figures in finnish popular music, passed away. --I had the honour to work with him on the album Senaattori ja Boheemi (2004)wich was his last studio al...
Posted by Lauri Porra on Sat, 25 Nov 2006 02:35:00 PST

Snorin´n Scoring

--Hello Friend´s and others--Returned home safely from Stratovarius North-Central-South-American tour. 16 flights, 40.000 kilometers bunch on gigs and some beers with friends.still recovering from jet...
Posted by Lauri Porra on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 06:02:00 PST

FANS TO THE FRONT!!!

I feel the urge to again address the issue of special VIP-tickets, wich i so dearly hate. In the Sao Paolo Live and Louder festival they sold again "speciallyoverpriced" VIP-tickets to the concert. Th...
Posted by Lauri Porra on Wed, 25 Oct 2006 05:29:00 PST

Four songs and a video

Greetings! Had a great summer. Loads of great festivals and gigs with great bands.I´m very lucky to be able to play with so many wonderful musicians. Thank youall who came out to see Stratovarius, ...
Posted by Lauri Porra on Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:58:00 PST

Summer giggin´ Part I

I´ll try to write a short tourt diary from last week here.10.7, Aitoon Kirkastusjuhlat, Jonna´s Problem First time i played Aitoo Kirkastusjuhlat turned out to be very special event for me. Just as we...
Posted by Lauri Porra on Tue, 18 Jul 2006 07:12:00 PST

Ahoy

Ahoy. Today while hung over I added some photos here
Posted by Lauri Porra on Sat, 04 Mar 2006 02:19:00 PST

Oi

Wow, I was just drinkin some beers, and suddenly I´m uploading some songs in here. Check ´em out
Posted by Lauri Porra on Thu, 02 Mar 2006 03:23:00 PST

howdy

It´s 5am and I´m wasted. my friend told me about this myspace thingy and I wanted to try it out
Posted by Lauri Porra on Mon, 13 Feb 2006 06:54:00 PST