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Duo based in Manchester, consisting of Joe McBride (Synkro), Liam Blackburn (Indigo, Ancestral Voices) and occasionally others. Released a self-titled album on Houndstooth in 2013. .

Tony Kakko is the singer of the popular Finnish melodic metal band Sonata Arctica. He was born 16.5 1975 in Kemi, Finland. Tony has been into music ever since he was young. He went to a music school in Kemi, studying keyboards (he has played the keyboard parts for Sonata Arctica on occasion, but generally he just sings and he never plays keyboard solos nor does he play live). He has never taken singing lessons. He has also performed with Nightwish, both as part of Sonata Arctica and as a guest vocalist for Nightwish themselves, appearing on the EP Over...

Jaakko Teppo (b. Feb. 16 1953) is a finnish singer who also likes to play guitar. The speciality is the use of dialect of savo, spoken in Savonia area in Finland. Not very popular in southern or western part of the country, yet he is quite known in eastern Finland and Kuopio area, where he is from. The most known song is undoubtedly Pamela. http://www.jaakkoteppo.fi/ .

Jaakko Ilkka Kuusisto (born 17 january 1974 Helsinki ) is a Lahti, Finland-based Finnish violinist , composer and conductor . He studied at the Sibelius Academy and Indiana University, and served as the Lahti Symphony Orchestra concert master of the years 1998 to 2012. Kuusisto, violinist has appeared in nearly all Finnish orchestras, and he has a summer festival standard guests. Abroad, he has appeared in, among other things, the Minnesota Orchestra, Belgian National Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester, the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, the Malaysian Philharmonic Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra. His their recordings include, among other things, Bach's violin...