Tuure Elmeri Boelius (born 3 January 2001) is a Finnish YouTuber, singer and actor. He was born in
Pori
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, website www.pori.fi
Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...
, Finland.
Career
Boelius signed a contract with Kaiku Entertainment in January 2017, with his first single, "Eikö sua hävetä", published in August 2017.
He has worked as an actor at several plays in
Pori Theatre
Pori Theatre ( fi, Porin Teatteri) is a theatre in Pori, Finland. It was established in 1931 as a merger of two local theatres. Theatre director is Christian Lindroos
History
Pori is considered as the home of Finnish-language theatre as the Fin ...
. He has also played
Touko Laaksonen
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential ...
as a child in
Turku City Theatre.
Boelius competed on the eleventh season of
Tanssii tähtien kanssa and placed third.
Personal life
Boelius came out as gay on a YouTube video in November 2016. He was chosen as Gay of the Year in February 2017 by QX Gay Gaala. Some people contacted the Finnish Ombudsman for Children because the award had been given to a minor. The Ombudsman commented that children's privacy should be protected but that children are also free to express themselves.
Discography
Singles
References
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2001 births
Gay musicians
20th-century Finnish male singers
Finnish pop singers
Finnish stage actors
Finnish YouTubers
Living people
Finnish gay actors
Finnish gay musicians
Finnish LGBT singers
LGBT YouTubers
Gay singers
People from Pori
Singing talent show contestants
21st-century LGBT people