Timo Räisänen (born 25 July 1979) is a Swedish musician. He has been part of
Håkan Hellström
Håkan Georg Hellström (; born 2 April 1974) is a Swedish musician. He made his breakthrough in Sweden in 2000 with the song "Känn ingen sorg för mig Göteborg" and the album with the same name. He has released eleven studio albums to date w ...
's band, and has also played in the band Her Majesty. In 2004, he started his solo career.
Räisänen was born in
Gothenburg
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,
Sweden
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. His mother was born in India, the daughter of an
Anglo-Indian
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mother and a Swedish father. His father, who was raised in
Brazil
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, had
Finnish ancestry. After his parents married, they moved to Sweden.
The title of his 2006 album, ''I'm Indian'' refers to his mother's ancestry.
In 2007, Räisänen received the P3 Guld award, where he was named best male artist of 2007.
In 2008, Räisänen received another P3 Guld award, where he was named best live artist of 2008.
Räisänen frequently features songs written by other artists on the B-side of his singles. In 2008, he released an album titled ''...And Then There Was Timo'' consisting of a handful of newly recorded covers.
In 2009, he sang live along with
In Flames
In Flames is a Swedish Heavy metal music, heavy metal band, formed by guitarist Jesper Strömblad in Gothenburg in 1990 out of the Swedish death metal, Swedish death metal scene. Their lineup has changed several times, with vocalist Anders Frid ...
, on their song "Alias".
Räisänen has also made his own acoustic cover version of In Flames' "
The Mirror's Truth".
Räisänen performed on the National Day of Sweden in 2009 and in the celebration LOVE Stockholm 2010 which was dedicated to Crown Princess Victoria's marriage to Prince Daniel.
In 2016, his friend Martin Schaub suggested Räisänen make a record of 70's late folk-pop artist
Ted Gärdestad covers. Räisänen at first thought his friend had gone mad, but eventually made the record, to much success and he claims it made him start writing songs in Swedish. The following year he released "Tro, Hat, Stöld" (Faith, Hate, Theft), an album consisting of songs in the Swedish language. Both albums resulted in large successful Swedish tours.
Discography
Albums
*2005 - ''Lovers Are Lonely'' #22 SWE
*2006 - ''I'm Indian'' #17 SWE
*2007 - ''Love Will Turn You Around'' #3 SWE
*2008 - ''...And Then There Was Timo'' #13 SWE
*2010 - ''The Anatomy of Timo Räisänen'' #5 SWE
*2012 - ''Endeavor''
*2016 - ''Timo sjunger Ted''
*2017 - ''Tro, hat, stöld''
Singles
*2004 - "Lovers Are Lonely"
*2005 - "Don't Let the Devil Ruin it All"
*2005 - "Pussycat"
*2006 - "Let's Kill Ourselves a Son"
*2007 - "Sweet Marie"
*2007 - "My Valentine"
*2008 - "Sixteen"
*2008 - "Spill Your Beans" (download only)
*2008 - "About You Now"
*2009 - "Creep"
*2010 - "Numbers"
*2010 - "Outcast"
*2010 - "Hollow Heart"
*2012 - "Second Cut"
Charting singles
References
External links
www.timoraisanen.se
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Living people
1979 births
Anglo-Indian people
Swedish people of English descent
Swedish people of Finnish descent
Swedish people of Indian descent
Swedish people of Anglo-Indian descent
English-language singers from Sweden
Swedish-language singers
21st-century Swedish singers
Musicians from Gothenburg