He was born March 14th 1976 in Rauma, Finland. As he was little, they had an old German piano, totally out of tune, lying around at home. He recalls how great it was to play the keys and create all kinds of chords with it. He believes he was around four then. That tells something about his way of composing; his greatest pleasure is simply improvising to get the idea of a composition.

Later he started to learn guitar playing, and he took guitar lessons when he was eight. After that, he continued with keyboard and music theory lessons at the local music school. At the same time he also played in a school band with his friends. Those were the times of his younghood.

He got married in 2004. They have four sons: the first one was born in December 2005 and his identical twin brothers in April 2008. Their fourth son was born in August 2013.
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