People near to HIM

Susanna

She´s Ville´s girlfriend since some years.

Some statements from Ville:

'Sie kommt auch aus Helsinki, studiert ein bisschen und macht ansonsten viele verschieden Dinge. Wir kennen uns schon aus der Zeit als ich noch keine Erfolg hatte' (Rennbahn Express - 02/01)

'Sie ist Finnin und etwas jünger als ich. Ich habe sie vor ein paar Jahren in Helsinkis kennen gerlernt, doch bis aus Freundschaft Lieber wurde, ist eineig Zieter vergangen.' (YAM! - 49/00)

NINJA SARASALO

She is a 18 years old finnish model and one of Jean-Paul Gaultier´s favourite models.

She´s the one from the 'Right here in my arms' clip.

Here´s a link to a fanpage of her:
www.ninjasarasalo.de

Roman Gregory

He is the man with whom HIM performed in Wiesen 2000 the Backstreet Boys cover 'Lager than life'.
They´re quite good friendo

Jesse Valo

He´s Ville´s younger brother and born in 1984.
And one of his hobbies is 'Thai-boxing'.

Silke Yli-Sirniö

Her nick is 'Mutti' and she´s the product-managerin of BMG Finland.

Hiili Hiilesmaa

He is the  producer of the 'Greatest Lovesongs Vol. 666' and of the '666 Ways to love: Prologe' - EP. And now he is working in the new production called "Love Metal"
Hiili Hiilesmaa got to know Ville about six years ago, when Ville was playing in many groups. At that time Hiili also was starting his own music- and studioprojects. Besides HIM, Hiili has worked for example with Sentenced and Apocalyptica.

Hiili:

'From the very beginning, it was very pleasent to work with Ville, since he was very definite at his work. As a song writer, Ville knows exactly what he wants and what the songs should sound like

John Fryer

He´s the procucer of 'Razorblade Romance'.
He also worked with Depeche Mode, Nine Inch Nails

Seppo Vesterinen

He´s HIM´s manager. ... One day someone told him about some new Finnish band, that had potential. It was the beginnig of year 1998. At that time Ville and other guys were looking for manager, so they decided to ask help from Vesterinen about business matters. Eventually it turned out that Vesterinen got along with the band very well and he became HIM's manager.

Seppo:

'I went to watch their show and I liked what I heard.

Jyrki

He is the frontman from 'The 69 Eyes' (another, very good finnish band) and Ville sang a lot of backround vocals on a lot of their CD´s ... as far as I know that, the two ... the two bands are good friends.

You can find some links to 'The 69 Eyes' sites at my 'Other bands' section ... you can find something about the band and the songs on which Ville sang the backround vocals at my 'Sideprojects' page (- 'The 69 Eyes').

Nicolette Groeler

She is a 24 years old south-africain model and she´s the model from the 'In joy and sorrow' clip.