Ilkka Juhani Sysimetsä (born 2 February 1945), known professionally as Frederik. is a
Finnish
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* Something or someone from, or related to Finland
* Culture of Finland
* Finnish people or Finns, the primary ethnic group in Finland
* Finnish language, the national language of the Finnish people
* Finnish cuisine
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singer. He is also known by his nickname Reetu.
During his lengthy career of
macho
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style
disco and
pop music
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, he has been awarded with five
gold
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and three
diamond
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records. One of his contemporary nicknames is "Junttidiscon kuningas" ("King of redneckdisco"). Frederik started his musical career as an electric organist in a pop group named Jim & The Beatmakers. He played later in a beat pop group named The Roosters in the mid-1960s.
Some of his best-known songs are "Jos jotain yrittää (Harva meistä on rautaa)", "Linda Linda", "
Tsingis Khan", "Sheikki Ali Hassan", "Titanic", "Stenka Rasin", "Kasakkapartio", "
Volga
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", "Kung-Fu taistelee" and many more.
He quit drinking alcohol in 2012 and has become a political candidate for the populist
Change 2011
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party in the parliamentary elections of 2015.
References
Official site
Frederik's official site (in Finnish)
1945 births
Living people
20th-century Finnish male singers
Place of birth missing (living people)
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