Harri Kalervo Mänty (born 31 July 1971 in

Västerås Västerås () is a city in central Sweden on the shore of Mälaren, Lake Mälaren in the province of Västmanland, west of Stockholm. The city had a population of 127,799 at the end of 2019, out of the municipal total of 158,653, over 100,000 mo ...

) is a

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musician and former member of the now discontinued Swedish rock band

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. Mänty joined the band in 1996 to replace Martin Roos and remained until 2006. In the band, he played guitar and percussion. Mänty is a music graduate. Before joining Kent, he was the vocalist for

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band No Security. In 1993 they released the record ''When the Gist is Sucked from the Fruit of Welfare, the ugly faces of truth show'', which contained all that the band had recorded with record label Lost & Found. The band toured

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, and had an offer to take part in a smaller tour of the US, but never went through with it. Together with fellow Kent bandmate Sami Sirviö, he has appeared in adverts for the Finnish beer brand Koff. Mänty told in an interview with SR's Finnish language channel (''Sveriges Radio Finska'') that he has put his career as a rock musician on the shelf and that he nowadays works as a nurse.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Manty, Harri Swedish guitarists Swedish male guitarists 1971 births Living people Swedish people of Finnish descent 21st-century Swedish guitarists Swedish male musicians Kent (band) members People from Västerås