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Waldo's People

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Finnish Eurodance band
Waldo's People
Waldo's People at a Eurovision 2009 press conference
Waldo's People at a Eurovision 2009 press conference
Background information
OriginFinland
GenresEurodance
Years active1998–present
LabelsSony BMG
RCA Records
MembersWaldo (vocal)
Karoliina Kallio (vocal)
Sami Lehto (drums)
Karl Sinkkonen (keyboards)
Kimmo Nissinen (guitar)
Websitewww.waldospeople.fi

Waldo's People is a Finnish Eurodance band. The lead singer of the band is Waldo, whose real name is Marko Reijonen. They represented Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2009, with the song "Lose Control". It won a place for the Eurovision final on May 16 as the jury's chosen act. They finished in last place out of 25 entries with 22 points.

Waldo already had some success in a solo-career in mid-1990s. His band influenced Finnish electronic dance music in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Waldo's People's first video was U Drive Me Crazy . It was the first Finnish video included in MTV Nordic's daily video-rotation.[1]

Discography

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Albums

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Year Title Chart positions[2]
FIN
1998 Waldo's People 6
2000 No Man's Land 6
2009 Paranoid 13

Compilations

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Year Title Chart positions[2]
FIN
2008 Back Again: The Greatest Hits 27

Singles

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Year Title Chart positions[2] Album
FIN SWE SWI UK [3]
1998 U Drive Me Crazy 3 60 - - Waldo's People
Let's Get Busy - - - -
I Dream 15 - - -
2000 1000 Ways 4 - - - No Man's Land
No Man's Land 18 - - -
Bounce (To The Rhythm Divine) - - - -
2001 Remedy - - - -
Disconnected - - - -
2008 Back Again 1 - - - Back Again: The Greatest Hits
Emperor's Dawn - - - -
Lose Control 1 11 57 100 Paranoid
2009 New Vibration 2 - - -
2010 I Wanna Be a Rockstar 15 - - -
Jackpot 19[4] - - -
2011 Echo - - - -
2014 You - - - -
2019 Nousee - - - -
2022 Life Is Now - - - -
2024 Öljytyt lanteet - - - - Vain elämää
Draamaa - - - -
Sen pituinen se - - - -
Syysunelma - - - -

Notes

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National selection: Uuden Musiikin Kilpailu
Participation
Artists
Songs
  • "Aava"
  • "Addicted to You"
  • "Aina mun pitää "
  • "Anna rakkaudelle tilaisuus"
  • "Aurinko laskee länteen"
  • "Blackbird"
  • "Bye Bye Baby"
  • "Cha Cha Cha"
  • "Da Da Dam"
  • "Dark Side"
  • "La dolce vita"
  • "Eläköön elämä"
  • "Fantasiaa"
  • "Fri?"
  • "Hard Rock Hallelujah"
  • "Hengaillaan"
  • "Huilumies"
  • "Hullu yö"
  • "Jezebel"
  • "Katson sineen taivaan"
  • "Keep Me Warm"
  • "Kuin silloin ennen"
  • "Kun kello käy"
  • "Laiskotellen"
  • "Lapponia"
  • "Leave Me Alone"
  • "A Little Bit"
  • "Look Away"
  • (削除) "Looking Back" (削除ここまで)
  • "Lose Control"
  • "Marry Me"
  • "Missä miehet ratsastaa"
  • "Monsters"
  • "Muistathan"
  • "Muistojeni laulu"
  • "När jag blundar"
  • "Nauravat silmät muistetaan"
  • "Never the End"
  • "Niin kaunis on taivas"
  • "No Rules!"
  • "Nuku pommiin"
  • "Old Man Fiddle"
  • "Playboy"
  • "Pump-Pump"
  • "Reggae OK"
  • "Sata salamaa"
  • "Sing It Away"
  • "Something Better"
  • "Takes 2 to Tango"
  • "Tie uuteen päivään"
  • "Tipi-tii"
  • "Tom Tom Tom"
  • "Tule luo"
  • "Työlki ellää"
  • "Valoa ikkunassa"
  • "Varjoon – suojaan"
  • "Why?"
  • "Yamma, yamma"
Note: Entries scored out signify where Finland did not compete. Italics indicate an entry in a future contest.
Countries
Final
Semi-finals
Withdrawn
Artists
Final
Semi-finals
Withdrawn
Songs
Final
Semi-finals
  • "Aven Romale"
  • "Cipela"
  • "Copycat"
  • "Dance with Me"
  • "Et Cetera"
  • "Eyes That Never Lie"
  • "Firefly"
  • "The Highest Heights"
  • "I Don't Wanna Leave"
  • "Illusion"
  • "Just Get Out of My Life"
  • "Leť tmou"
  • "Love Symphony"
  • "Nešto što kje ostane "
  • "Probka"
  • "Shine"
  • "La teva decisió (Get a Life)"
Withdrawn
  • "We Don't Wanna Put In"


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