Biography

Ville Laaksonen
Real name: Ville Laaksonen
Ville Laaksonen is a musician and vocal pedagogue from Helsinki, Finland, and graduated from the Sibelius Academy as Master of Music. In addition to teaching singing, Laaksonen is a versatile singer, composer, lyricist and arranger. Laaksonen has experience as a performer in musicals, for example in Helsinki City Theatre's Miss Saigon. Ville Laaksonen released his debut album Boy With Strings - Spaces Between Memories in the spring of 2015. As a composer and arranger, Ville Laaksonen has worked e.g. on the records of Nightwish and Antti Tuisku. His compositions have been twice in Finland's Eurovision qualifiers performed by Riikka Timonen.