Frederik (singer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Frederik (singer)

Finnish singer

Date of Birth: 02-Feb-1945

Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland

Profession: composer, politician, singer

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

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About Frederik (singer)

  • Ilkka Juhani Sysimetsä (born 2 February 1945), known professionally as Frederik.
  • is a Finnish singer.
  • He also known by his nickname Reetu.
  • During his lengthy career of machostyle disco and pop music, he has been awarded with five gold and three diamond records.
  • One of his contemporary nicknames is "Junttidiscon kuningas" ("King of redneckdisco").
  • Frederik started his musical career as an electric organist in a pop group named Jim & The Beatmakers.
  • He played later in a beat pop group named The Roosters in the mid-1960s. Some of his best-known songs are "Jos jotain yrittää (Harva meistä on rautaa)", "Linda Linda", "Tsingis Khan", "Sheikki Ali Hassan", "Titanic", "Stenka Rasin", "Kasakkapartio", "Volga", "Kung-Fu taistelee" and many more. He quit drinking alcohol in 2012 and has become a political candidate for the populist Change 2011 party in the parliamentary elections of 2015.

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