Timo Räisänen is a Anglo-Indian Swede Indie pop

Indie pop

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 musician

Musician

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, born in Gothenburg

Gothenburg

Gothenburg is the second-largest city in Sweden and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated on the west coast of Sweden, the city proper has a population of 519,399, with 549,839 in the urban area and total of 937,015 inhabitants in the metropolitan area...

 on 25 July 1979. He was previously part of Håkan Hellström

Håkan Hellström

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's band, and has played in the band Her Majesty. In 2004 he started his own career.

Räisänen received the P3 Guld award, where he was named best live artist of 2007.

Räisänen frequently features covers on the B-side of his singles. In 2008 he released a cover album titled '...And Then There Was Timo' consisting of b-sides and a handful of newly recorded covers.

In 2009, he sang along with In Flames

In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception in 1993, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD...

, their song "Alias" live. He also made his own acoustic cover version of In Flames

In Flames

In Flames is a Swedish heavy metal band from Gothenburg, formed in 1990. Since the band's inception in 1993, they have released ten studio albums and one live DVD...

's The Mirror's Truth

The Mirror's Truth

"The Mirror's Truth" is the first single released by In Flames from their ninth album A Sense of Purpose. The disc contains the single and three songs, out of which two are previously unreleased, that didn't appear on the album. This single is available to Europe, Hot Topic, and the American iTunes...

.

Räisänen's mother was born in India, had an Anglo-Indian

Anglo-Indian

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 mother and a Swedish father. His father is Finnish but was brought up in Brazil

Brazil

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. When his parents met, they moved to Sweden. The title of his 2006 album 'I'm Indian' refers to his mother's family.

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

Singles

• 2004 - Lovers are Lonely
• 2005 - Don't Let the Devil Ruin it All
• 2005 - Pussycat
• 2006 - Fear No Darkness, Promised Child
• 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

External links

• www.timoraisanen.se