Whole name: Ville Hermanni Valo Birthtime and -place: 22.11.1976 Helsinki, Finland 8:28 am.
Nicknames: Viltsu, Vilpertti, Rakohammas (Slot-tooth), Zebraman, Vlad Lux, Bil, Don Vitto, Elvis
Tattoos: left arm covered with ornament, heart with black outline under his right wrist, Heartagram around his left nipple that was previously a clef (some sources said that was letter S), little Heartagram on his neck, ornamentwings around heartagram above his genitals, flamesymbol and the cosmic pope on his right calf.
In summer 2005 when HIM was working with Dark Light-album Ville took more tattoos over his skin. There is a picture of Timo K. Mukka (Finnish writer who died before his 30th birthday, death caused by his habits...) on his inner right forearm.
Little bit after that Ville engaged his longtime girlfriend Jonna and for that is a tattoo somewhere in his right arm. Tattoo is text DILLIGAF that's condensation from the first letters of sentence 'Do I Look Like I Give A Fuck'.
As an engagement ring on his left ring-finger is J-letter for a same reason.
On the right side of his chest is text 'May', on his right wrist is a picture of Charles Baudelaire (French poet) and there is the eyes (watching behind his back) on his shoulder-blades, these tattoos has made somewhere in autumn 2005 (a clef removed by Heartagram has made at the same time).
All tattoos are made by his friend Jarkko "Hyge" Tiitinen.
Other instruments: Ville plays every instrument that are often used in the rockbands. He's composing with keyboards and guitar, Bass and drums are known from his sideprojects and former bands.
Childhood: Lived first months in Vallila surrounded by houses built from wood. Soon their family moved to Oulunkylä and Ville lived there about 17 years.
When Ville was little boy they've got lots of pets in their home. Ville learned to walk with the help of the dog named Sami and Ville has said that he get an awful trauma and he went allergic and asthmatic when the dog died. Ville thinks that is psycholocigal disease for him. There were also fishes, turtles and other stuff in the home of Ville's childhood.
When Ville was baby and he started to cry then his father put the song named Paratiisi (by Rauli Badding Somerjoki) in their stereo and his mother took him near and started to dance. That's the way how Ville stopped shedding his tears.
Family: Father worked as a taxidriver and later he worked in sexshop where Ville was also working before HIM took Ville. Mother worked officeworks like Ville says it. Ville have got a brother who's born in 1983 and he is succeed in kickboxing.
First musical memory: The family of Ville has got a friend called Jallu who is very good for imitating Elvis. Once they've got a party in the house and Jallu was playing 'Are You Lonesome Tonight' at the midnight. Ville crawled with his 'potkuhousut' (the trousers used by babies) nearby their recordshelves and there were hided bongodrums. Ville started rapidly playing drums and the parents of him thinked that the boy wants to play the music.
First scaring memory of music was when Ville was 4 years old. The son of Jallu was the fan of Iron Maiden and when Ville went to his room he's so scared about Eddie and other monsterstuff that he ran away from the room. That happened in the night, by the way..
Schoolyears: Ville was very wild in the school, he's fighting with other guys and he often changed his classroom for that. He was hyperactive child and when he was about 7 he went to investigations where was attached pipes collecting magnetic signals from his head. After that Ville get a special permission to draw pictures in the classroom. That's only way to keep little Ville calm and easy.
In the upper classes he liked a lot of mathematics. First he got problems with that subject, but he got a teacher named Erkki Falck who was extremely severe. Teacher made always Ville to count on blackboard and put him shaming at the same time. That's enough for Ville and he decided to learn to count. He spent lots of time for mathematics and after that Ville starts to getting good number for it.
Ville thinks in their book that school sucks. He understands the function of lower classes because there was learned to read and write and that's important thing. Ville also thinks that everyone should go to school when they're ready for it and they really want to study even they are 30 years old. In the school everyone learned by heart but they take shape of nothing.
After upper classes Ville went to evening-secondary school. He was there about year and a half and then he quits because he can't stand it anymore. He thinks that reason for that was his bad discipline with himself.
Passion for music: When Ville was 8 years old (in 1984) he heard Animalize by Kiss for the first time. That was the first record that he bought and the recommendation was given by Ville's cousin Pia. Ville saved the money that he get from his parents and asked from Pia that 'what's good record to buy' and she answered 'Animalize'. Ville asked that because he don't know anything about music, records or recordstores. So Ville went to recordstore and took Animalize from the shelf and that's why Ville play music today...
Ville thinks that Pia brainwashed him to rockmusic and thinks that the result for him should be probably very different kind if she was recommended for example classical music. Animalize is still very important record for Ville and he gets other record of Kiss after that. In here is good to tell that Ville likes more of unmasked Kiss than the masked one because he started in their unmasked season.
In the third class starts classes for music and pupils started to think what's their instrument what they want to play. Ville thinks that Gene Simmons is nice and his choice was the bassguitar for that. His parents find somewhere used bassguitar and that was a great moment for Ville. That bassguitar is still left in his home and he takes care for it. He also plays it sometimes. The instrument is Dia-marked SG-copy from 70's.
Playing bass: Ville changed his bass couple of times for more fresh designs. He remembered when he played with his first bass and small amplifier, it was more pain than pleasure. His fingers bleeding and his mother says 'boy, keep on training'. Ville was not inspired for training, but lately he said that's good for him though that was very boring sometimes to train his technics. Ville was never trained with piano or classical music. He wanted rather to play pop or rock than something high-cultural.
Ville starts to learn to reading the notes in his lower classes and there went lots of time before he learned anything.
Hobbies: Ville take an interest in judo and spent almost 9 years for that event when he was kid. His father likes a lot of events for struggle and the boxing is nearby his heart and that infected to Ville. Ville doesn't want to fight in boxing, so he choosed judo for his event. Ville got a green belt in judo.
Another hobby from the early years was skateboarding where he was really good. He stopped skateboarding somewhere in the middle of 90's and Bam Margera is the person who probably starts again that hobby for Ville.
Nowadays he likes to design graphics with computer.
Collects records and reads lots of biographies from different artists to educate himself.
Moving out from home: Ville moves out from his home when he was 18. His mother and father gave some money that Ville could live in Helsinki (there is very expensive rents). Ville was already allergic and asthmatic and he didn't cure himself, because he didn't saw that necessary then. His family took the dog to their home. The dog was mistreated by its former owner and the family of Ville wanted to save that dog. The dog made Ville so sick that he was in hospital two weeks. After that the father of Ville gave apartment as a birthdaypresent to him. So Ville moved out from his home.
Subject: Ville Valo Biography 
Wed 4 Jul 2007 - 10:22
oh so Ville doesn't drink red wine but he does drink summer wine? 
