Waldo's People

Finnish Eurodance band

Waldo's People
Waldo's People at a Eurovision 2009 press conference
Background information
Origin	Finland
Genres	Eurodance
Years active	1998–present
Labels	Sony BMG RCA Records

Members	Waldo (vocal) Karoliina Kallio (vocal) Sami Lehto (drums) Karl Sinkkonen (keyboards) Kimmo Nissinen (guitar)

Website	www.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

Albums

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

Compilations

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

Singles

Year	Albums	Title	Chart positions^[2]
Year	Albums	Title	FIN	SWE	SWI	UK ^[3]
1998	Waldo's People	U Drive Me Crazy (RCA/Blue Bubble)	3	60	-	-
		I Dream (RCA/Blue Bubble)	-	-	-	-
		Let's Get Busy (RCA/Blue Bubble)	-	-	-	-
2000	No Man's Land	No Man's Land (RCA)	18	-	-	-
		1000 Ways (RCA)	4	-	-	-
		Bounce (To The Rhythm Divine) (RCA)	-	-	-	-
2001		Remedy
2001		Disconnected
2008	Back Again: The Greatest Hits	Back Again (Sony BMG)	1	-	-	-
2008	Back Again: The Greatest Hits	Emperor's Dawn (Sony BMG)	-	-	-	-
2009	Paranoid	Lose Control (Sony BMG)	1	11	57	100
2009	Paranoid	New Vibration (Sony BMG)	2	-	-	-
2010	N/A	I Wanna Be a Rockstar (Sony BMG)	15	-	-	-
2010		Jackpot (Sony BMG)	19^[4]	-	-	-
2011		Echo (EMI)	-	-	-	-
2014		You	-	-	-	-

Notes

^ Eurodance Ltd: Waldo's People
^ ^a ^b ^c finnishcharts.com - Discography Waldo
^ Official Charts Company – Waldo's People(Link redirected to OCC website)
^ finnishcharts.com - Waldo's People v.s LA-X - Jackpot

External links

Official website

Preceded by

Teräsbetoni
with Missä miehet ratsastaa

Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest
2009

Succeeded by

Kuunkuiskaajat
with Työlki ellää

Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest

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"
~~"Looking Back"~~
"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

Eurovision Song Contest 2009

Countries

Final	Albania Armenia Azerbaijan Bosnia and Herzegovina Croatia Denmark Estonia Finland France Germany Greece Iceland Israel Lithuania Malta Moldova Norway Portugal Romania Russia Spain Sweden Turkey Ukraine United Kingdom
Semi-finals	Andorra Belarus Belgium Bulgaria Cyprus Czech Republic Hungary Ireland Latvia Macedonia Montenegro Netherlands Poland Serbia Slovakia Slovenia Switzerland
Withdrawn	Georgia

Artists

Final	Alex Swings Oscar Sings Soraya Arnelas Aysel and Arash Niels Brinck Chiara Nelly Ciobanu Igor Cukrov feat. Andrea Elena Malena Ernman Jade Ewen Flor-de-Lis Hadise Inga and Anush Patricia Kaas Svetlana Loboda Noa and Mira Awad Anastasia Prikhodko Regina Sakis Rouvas Alexander Rybak Sasha Son Kejsi Tola Urban Symphony Waldo's People Yohanna
Semi-finals	Zoli Ádok Krassimir Avramov Intars Busulis Copycat Andrea Demirović Petr Elfimov Susanne Georgi Gipsy.cz Marko Kon and Milaan Lidia Kopania Lovebugs Christina Metaxa Kamil Mikulčík and Nela Pocisková Sinéad Mulvey and Black Daisy Next Time Quartissimo feat. Martina The Toppers
Withdrawn	Stephane and 3G

Songs

Final	"Always" "The Balkan Girls" "Be My Valentine! (Anti-Crisis Girl)" "Believe Again" "Bistra voda" "Carry Me in Your Dreams" "Düm Tek Tek" "Et s'il fallait le faire" "Fairytale" "Hora din Moldova" "Is It True?" "It's My Time" "Jan Jan" "Lijepa Tena" "Lose Control" "Love" "Mamo" "Miss Kiss Kiss Bang" "La noche es para mí" "Rändajad" "There Must Be Another Way" "This Is Our Night" "Todas as ruas do amor" "La Voix" "What If We"
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"