Tommy Portimo, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Tommy Portimo

Finnish musician and drummer

Date of Birth: 05-Sep-1981

Place of Birth: Kemi, Regional State Administrative Agency for Lapland, Finland

Profession: drummer, musician

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Sonata Arctica is a Finnish power metal band from the town of Kemi, Finland.
Created as a hard rock band named Tricky Beans, they later changed to Tricky Means and finally to Sonata Arctica, when they shifted to power metal.
The current line-up consists of singer, keyboardist and songwriter Tony Kakko, guitarist Elias Viljanen, bass guitarist Pasi Kauppinen, keyboardist and keytarist Henrik Klingenberg, and drummer Tommy Portimo.
All the musicians of the band's history except Portimo also acted as backing vocalists. As of 2019, the band has released ten full-length albums (three via Spinefarm Records and seven via Nuclear Blast), their most recent being Talviyö on September 6, 2019.