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Ola Salo
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Ola Salo
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1977-02-19,Avesta, Dalarnas län, Sweden
Gender
Male
Biography
Ola Salo is a Swedish rock musician known for being the lead vocalist of glam rock band The Ark. He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Ark. Salo is openly bisexual. Salo and the other members of the band had an international breakthrough in 2000 with the album We Are The Ark, containing the signature song "It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" (for which Ola won a Grammis for "Song of the Year"), a song Salo wrote after watching the Danish film Idioterne (The Idiots). In October 2006 during a party celebrating the new Swedish embassy in Washington, The Ark was performing on stage. As a plane was flying very low overhead Salo said "In this country, you don't know where those planes are headed. Well, this one seems to be heading in the right direction anyway..." meaning the airport, but then suddenly adding "...to the White House" which happened to be in the same direction. This caused controversy as many newspapers reported that Salo had "wished an airplane to crash into the White House". Salo later said that it was a bad joke, "totally unserious way of being cheeky toward the White House" and not a political statement. The band ended up cancelling almost its entire U.S. tour. On 10 March 2007, Salo and the band The Ark won Melodifestivalen 2007 and went on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "The Worrying Kind", where, in which they came 18th with 51 points. Salo has recently translated Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar into Swedish for a performance in Malmö this autumn in which he will play the title role of Jesus, and as a result he stated that "2008 will be a very quiet year" for The Ark after a hectic 2007 with the Eurovision Song Contest and the release of Prayer for the Weekend. In 2009. Salo featured on the Empire Dogs' album, Come On You Preachers.

Filmography

Glam, Sweat & Tears

1

Glam, Sweat & Tears
2021-01-01

0

Vi är The Ark
2001-02-09

0

The Ark
2001-02-10

Jesus Christ Superstar - Swedish Arena Tour

8

Jesus Christ Superstar - Swedish Arena Tour
2014-03-24

The Ark - Live på Peace & Love 2011

8

The Ark - Live på Peace & Love 2011
2012-02-15

0

Renées brygga
2015-02-18

Masked Singer Sverige

7.7

Masked Singer Sverige
2021-03-26

Så ska det låta

6

Så ska det låta
1997-01-17

Moraeus Med Mera

10

Moraeus Med Mera
2011-09-04

5

Skavlan
2009-01-16

Melodifestivalen

4.4

Melodifestivalen
1959-02-26

Evert! Evert! Evert!

1

Evert! Evert! Evert!
2021-12-20

0

Sommarkrysset
2005-06-03

6.9

På spåret
1987-09-05

Hellenius Hörna

0

Hellenius Hörna
2010-10-07

Hellenius Hörna

0

Hellenius Hörna
2010-10-07

Allsång på Skansen

4.3

Allsång på Skansen
1979-08-03

Stjärnornas Stjärna

0

Stjärnornas Stjärna
2018-03-17

Melodifestivalen

4.4

Melodifestivalen
1959-02-26

Så mycket bättre

7.2

Så mycket bättre
2010-10-23

Tack för musiken

0

Tack för musiken
2011-08-20

Stjärnor hos Babben

10

Stjärnor hos Babben
2014-02-21