AnthonyDeOliveira Posted February 23, 2007 Posted February 23, 2007 Ville Hermanni Valo (born November 22, 1976) is the vocalist, songwriter and frontman of the Finnish alternative rock band HIM. They have released five full length albums, and as of 2006, they are the first and only Finnish rock band to sell Gold in the United States. Official site: http://www.heartagram.com Official Myspace: http://www.myspace.com/heartagram Early life Valo was born at 8:28 a.m. to a Finnish father Kari and a Hungarian descent mother Anita in a small wooden-house suburb of Helsinki called Vallila. 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. Valo's first musical step was as a three year old bongo drummer. At age nine, Valo attended the Pop and Jazz Conservatory in Helsinki, where he studied several different musical genres. Soon after his birth, his family moved to the riverside community of Oulunkylä, where his father eventually opened a sex shop. During his late teens Valo spent a period working in the shop before launching his career in music. 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. The Birth of HIM In 1995, Valo enlisted old schoolmates Mikko ("Lilly Lazer" now "Linde") Lindstrom and Mikko ("Mige Amour") Heinrik -- augmented by drummer Juhana Rantala and keyboardist Antto Melasniemi -- to form HIM, 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"). He started out by playing bass for his band HIM, however he had to sing for their first demo as they couldn't find a vocalist. He then became full-time vocalist for them. He also plays drums and guitar on some of HIM's songs. Quote
NICE DREAM Posted March 19, 2007 Posted March 19, 2007 i love him--- he is so talented and handsome! Quote
Vidua Posted April 14, 2007 Posted April 14, 2007 I love Ville Valo! Anyways, he's an awesome guy, quite funny too. Quote
AnthonyDeOliveira Posted April 15, 2007 Author Posted April 15, 2007 oh god SARAH u heard of HIM? hahaha i got all there cd's and people in school said i look like a hawaiian ville haha. and i had real long hair and i just cut it because ville cut it haha. ville is really funny. Wille Walo haha and this one time he teased 50cent's movie ville said "get drunk, and try dying" haha Quote
horaz Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 He made a song with Apocalyptica called 'Bittersweet'. A great song, but the singer of 'The Rasmus' is awefull...Apocalyptica and Ville would have done better without him Quote
AnthonyDeOliveira Posted April 16, 2007 Author Posted April 16, 2007 yep, i know i know every song from him and every colabaration hes done. Quote
footballfan#7 Posted April 16, 2007 Posted April 16, 2007 HIM is one of my favorite bands and Ville Valo is one of my favorite singer/songwriters.I especially love his ability to smoke, drink, and sing all at the same time! Quote
AnthonyDeOliveira Posted April 17, 2007 Author Posted April 17, 2007 hahaha who doesnt luv when he does that haha.dont really like bam Quote
footballfan#7 Posted April 17, 2007 Posted April 17, 2007 Bam Margera, he's ok i like to watch his show cause its funny.But what urks me is all those kids who get the heartagram tattooed on them just because of Bam and they've never even listned to HIM let alone know who they are. Quote
AnthonyDeOliveira Posted April 17, 2007 Author Posted April 17, 2007 totally, and like bam is always dressing like vile and thats soooooo annoying. and people only listen to HIM because of bam, i mean come one, bam isnt that great, ville and HIM are WAY better than bam in my opinion, and yea i like his show to. god every HIM song, and i mean every single one are all good. from there first song "For you" to there last song "Venus in our blood" and "The cage". Quote
footballfan#7 Posted April 18, 2007 Posted April 18, 2007 My favorites are "Heartache Every Moment" and "Right Here In My Arms" I could listen to these two songs over and over again. Quote
Hime Posted August 8, 2007 Posted August 8, 2007 Bam is good at what he's doing, he's a skater not a singer and BTW I love HIM Quote
fuego Posted March 23, 2008 Posted March 23, 2008 wow great tread on a great band esp on sweet ville saw them in concert some weeks ago it was fantastic Quote
heartagrambaby Posted March 26, 2008 Posted March 26, 2008 I'm seeing HIM in concert on this coming Monday. Definitally one of my favourite bands. Bam's quote is pretty true when he says 'All girls like HIM'... of course there are exceptions in a hiphop/rnb dominated country.Ville was engaged to ex-Finnish model and TV host Jonna Nygren. They broke it off sometime in early 2007. Right now he is single but rumours say he is dating a German poet.Ville also had a huge drinking problem claiming he hadn't been sober in two years. He ended up in Rehab in mid-2007 after the band finnished recording Venus Doom and he has been sober since. He still smokes like a chimney though. Quote
Ladron Del Alma Posted March 27, 2008 Posted March 27, 2008 *looks at his chubby irish face then at Ville, gets jealous* Damn his perfect Finnish facial structure! Why can't I look like him? Aside from the whole, he's a Finn and I'm irish thing... Quote
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