Ilkka Juhani Sysimetsä (born 2 February 1945), known professionally as Frederik. is a
Finnish singer. He is also known by his nickname Reetu.
During his lengthy career of
machostyle
disco
Disco is a genre of dance music and a subculture that emerged in the 1970s from the United States' urban nightlife scene. Its sound is typified by four-on-the-floor beats, syncopated basslines, string sections, brass and horns, electric pia ...
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.
References
Official site
Frederik's official site (in Finnish)
1945 births
Living people
20th-century Finnish male singers
Place of birth missing (living people)
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