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Ville Hermanni Valo (born 22 November 1976) is a Finnish singer, songwriter, and frontman of the Finnish rock band HIM. Valo was also the drummer for the Daniel Lioneye project.
Ville was born in a small wooden house in a district of Helsinki, Finland called Vallila. His father, Kari, is Finnish and his mother, Anita, is of Hungarian descent. Soon after his birth, the family moved to the riverside community of Oulunkylä, where they lived throughout his teenage years. In his late teens, he worked at his father's sex shop and later moved out on his own when he was 18.
Valo suffers from asthma and allergies and had to be hospitalized for 5 days because of an asthma attack. As a child, Valo 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 at a birthday party. Only three years old, Valo picked up a set of bongo drums, and started to play.
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