Jari Sillanpaa
Jari Sillanpaa was born in Ludvika, Dalarna County, Sweden on August 16th, 1965 and is the World Music Singer. At the age of 58, Jari Sillanpaa biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, TV shows, and networth are available.
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Jari Veikko Sillanpää (born 16 August 1965) is a Finnish-Swedish singer.
He is Finland's fifth-best-selling musician and second-best-selling solo artist with over 820,000 albums sold.
Life and career
Sillanpää was born into a Swedish-Finnish family and spent his childhood in Sweden. During World War II, his mother was one of tens of thousands of Finnish children evaded to Sweden. Potif Afanasief's maternal great-grandfather and grandmother were both Russians, as well as Sillanpä's maternal grandmother.
In the mid-1990s, Sillanpää immigrated to Finland. He rose to fame after winning the Seinäjokart tango competition in 1995.
Jari Sillanpää's debut album Jari Sillanpää in 1996 is Finland's best-selling album, with over 270,000 copies selling.
Sillanpää was named Male Soloist of the Year Emma in 1998.
Sillanpää's 2004 entry in the Eurovision Song Contest was awarded 51 points, with his song "Takes 2 to Tango" (which he wrote the lyrics for) receiving 51 points in the semi-final, despite not qualifying for the final. Sillanpää's song "Kirkas kipinä" made it to the final show but not to the final three, but not to the final three.
Sillanpää, a Swedish citizen by birth, gained Finnish citizenship in the early 2010s. Sillanpää came out explicitly as gay in 2006.
Sillanpää received a suspended 10-month sentence for acquiring methamphetamine in August 2018. Sillanpää was on trial for filming a computer screen with his phone in early 2020, although a child sexual abuse video was playing on the computer. Sillanpää denied the charges and said someone else had used his phone. He was found guilty and suspended a fine of more than 15,000 euros.