Waldo's People

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Waldo's People
General information
Genre (s) Eurodance
founding 1998
Website www.waldospeople.fi
Current occupation
singing
 Waldo (Marko Reijonen)
singing
 Karoliina Kallio
Drums
 Sami Lehto
Keyboard
 Karl Sinkkonen
guitar
 Kimmo Nissinen

Waldo's People is a Eurodance group from Finland with the band leader Waldo (actually Marko Reijonen), who produced several solo singles in the mid-1990s. The group has existed since 1998 and released two albums in 1998 and 2000. It wasn't until eight years later that the group returned with a greatest hits album.

The band took part in the Finnish qualification for the Eurovision Song Contest in 2009 and won it in the final on January 31, 2009 with 45.1% of the votes. She therefore represented Finland at the Eurovision Song Contest 2009 in Moscow with the song Lose Control . There were allegations of plagiarism in advance because the melody of Lose Control has similarities with the refrain of the 1984 hit Wouldn't It Be Good by Nik Kershaw . In the first semifinals, Waldo's People only placed 12th, but the tenth qualifying place is determined by a jury and their highest-rated country, which is not among the first nine places in the televote vote, receives the tenth place in the final secure their progress. In the ESC finals, Waldo's People took 25th and last place in the victory of Norwegian Alexander Rybak .

Discography

Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Albums
Waldo's People
  FI 6th 
gold
gold
05/11/1998 (24 weeks)
No Man's Land
  FI 6th 
gold
gold
05/22/2000 (16 weeks)
Back Again - Greatest Hits
  FI 27 06/16/2008 (5 weeks)
Paranoid
  FI 13 02/09/2009 (7 weeks)
Singles
U drive me crazy
  FI 3 03/23/1998 (7 weeks)
1000 ways
  FI 4th 02/07/2000 (11 weeks)
No Man's Land
  FI 18th 06/12/2000 (1 week)
Back again
  FI 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 05/26/2008 (10 weeks)
Lose control
  CH 57 05/31/2009 (1 week)
  FI 1Template: Infobox chart placements / maintenance / NR1 link 12/22/2008 (26 weeks)
New vibration
  FI 2 07/18/2009 (8 weeks)

Albums

  • 1998: Waldo's People
  • 2000: No Man's Land
  • 2008: Back Again - Greatest Hits
  • 2009: Paranoid

Singles

  • Unknown date Feel So Good
  • 1998: U Drive Me Crazy
  • 1998: I Dream
  • 1998: Let's Get Busy
  • 2000: No Man's Land
  • 2000: 1000 Ways
  • 2000: 1000 Ways (Remixes)
  • 2000: Bounce (To the Rhythm Divine)
  • 2008: Back Again
  • 2008: Emperor's Dawn
  • 2009: Lose Control
  • 2009: New Vibration

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Suomen euroviisuedustaja on Waldo's People ( Memento of the original from February 9, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. yle.fi @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / euroviisut.yle.fi
  2. ↑ Finland: Marko Reijonen (Waldo) Talks to Finnish Newspaper, accessed May 13, 2009.
  3. ↑ a b Waldo’s People in the Finnish hit parade finnishcharts.com
  4. ^ Waldo in the Swiss hit parade hitparade.ch
  5. ↑ Music Sales Awards: UK