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Place of Birth: Finland
About Elias Hämäläinen
- Elias Hämäläinen (born 15 April 1985 in Finland) is a Finnish musician who won the first series of the Finnish X Factor on 16 May 2010.
- He received a 3-album recording contract with Sony Music.
- Before the competition, Elias made his living as a street musician in Helsinki, but was also lead-vocalist and guitarist in Gusto, a band playing rock with an acoustic guitar sound.Elias Hämäläinen's parents were missionaries performing gospel music, and he toured many countries with them and his three older siblings, staying also for a while in the United States.
- Due to his international background, English is Hämäläinen's strongest language, and he mostly writes songs in English.
- The Finnish musician Jere Ijäs assisted him with the lyrics on his debut album, "Rakkaudesta ja pelosta" (About love and fear).
- Seven out of the ten tracks, both compositions and lyrics, are a result of this co-operation.
- Elias's brother Markus Hämäläinen has also contributed to some songs. Since his X factor-victory, Elias has mostly done acoustic shows by himself or as a guitar duo with Gary Keskinen from the former Technicolour-band or his brother Markus.
- The record release tour contained some bigger shows with a band consisting mostly of Gusto-members.
- Elias performs his own material as well as diverse covers, e.g.
- "Slide" by Goo goo dolls, which was his audition song in X factor.
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