The beloved singer left almost wearing boots. On his last evening, Lindholm still took a sauna in a place he loved.
The vocal soloist of the legendary band Yö, Olli Lindholm, died exactly four years ago, on February 12, 2019.
Information about the death came via the band’s Facebook:
– We have sad news for you. Yö band’s founding member, frontman and singer Olli Lindholm is gone. Olli passed away on Monday and Tuesday, February 11-12. on the night between to a seizure.
– Olli was much more than a bandmate to us. He was a close friend to us, who was always on his side. He left us many memories and songs that live on forever, Yö’s official Facebook page announced.
The cause of death was later confirmed to be a rupture of the aorta. Lindholm was only 54 years old when he died.
The sudden death of Olli Lindholm touched me. Sanna Taskinen
Boots on
The death of the beloved singer touched many Finns. The fact that the death came completely unexpectedly added to the shock.
– Olli was fine with his life. This is a shock to everyone. There was no indication of this, Yö band manager Taija Holm told Iltalehte.
Lindholm left almost with his boots on, in good shape. Even on his last evening, he had visited a familiar sauna at the Kaupinoja winter swimming spot in Tampere.
Just over a week before his death, Lindholm appeared tanned and happy in front of the media at the Emma gala. The man had just returned from the Canary Islands.
– We played a little bit there, I took some punts, but mainly I walked. I only took it at half power, it was really good. A lot of walking, Lindholm described the balance of the trip to Iltalehte.
– You have to keep yourself in shape, it’s harder to be! he added.
At the Emma gala, Lindholm told his good-natured and tanned news, just a week before his death. Antti Nikkanen
Lindholm had renewed the composition of his band and was looking forward to the tour that was about to begin. It was supposed to start on February 15.
Lindholm was no longer able to go on that tour.
Young to work
Born in Pori, Lindholm started his career as a musician at the age of 16. Young Lindholm’s music genre was punk. Lindholm was founding the band Yö in 1981.
First Music hall-the album was well received. The actual hit album was just coming. In 2003, the band’s 15th studio album Love is as white as snow topped the charts and sold gold in four days.
This is what Yö’s lineup looked like in the early 1980s. IL archive
However, the tremendous rise of the night career and the pressures of family life with children at the time made Lindholm grab the bottle.
– I had to be a family man and a husband and a rock star. It didn’t match the whole. I drove myself into such a tight corner that there was no other choice but to be out of patterns for a few days. In Kännsi, Lindholm told Iltalehte in the spring of 2017.
Lindholm gave up alcohol for good in 2000.
Night’s almost 40-year journey had ups and downs. Sometimes the door to the band room was ajar and the members changed. Lindholm gave the band a face and in the end was also the last original member of the band.
Public image
The writer Arno Kotro wrote a biography of Lindholm Olli – a one-man variety show in 2017.
The men met through the book project. Kotro has said that he knew Lindholm as an open-minded and self-deprecating person. In his opinion, Lindholm’s public image did not correspond to a real man.
– Publicity narrows a person’s personality. To me, Olli appeared to be quite reflective, open-minded and ready to speak. At the same time, he had sensitivity and sentimentality. Those sides were not necessarily shown in public, Kotro said.
Olli Lindholm was invited to Linna’s party in 2017. Jenni Gastgivar/IL
Lindholm’s interpretations have always garnered praise and the evergreens have remained forever in life.
Lindholm’s longtime friend, ice hockey coach Karri Kivi know why:
– You can’t perform and you can’t sing such great songs if you don’t go to the bottom. Petvataväll ice and similar songs are born from the fact that you’ve really been pissed, Kivi analyzed in an interview with Iltalehti in 2021.
– That’s why Yö’s songs are melancholic, when Olli was really gloomy. They’re not a bunch of fluff. When you know the stories behind the songs, they hit home. The songs are Olli’s own experiences.
Lindholm’s friends have said that the singer kept in close contact with them. Kivi wondered how Lindholm knew how to help others but easily fell into melancholy with his own affairs.
– He probably didn’t realize how popular he was, Kivi estimated.
Olli Lindholm joined the coaching staff of The Voice of Finland program in 2015. Jenni Uotinen
Last fall, Lindholm received a wooden looking statue in Pomarkku. It’s the chainsaw artist of the Alavetelian by Ulla Haglund made by
On Friday, Yö released a new song To the last sunset. It’s a song found in the band’s archives, which Lindholm sings.
The song is a recording from 2018. It was made in the beginning What if I love -album, but remained unused at the time.
This is what Olli Lindholm’s statue looks like. Juha Veli Jokinen