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a singer. Hasse Walli was about ten years old when he started playing drums. He drummed in various bands in early 1960s such as The
Islanders, The Electric Five and Nameless. Gradually Walli switched from drums to electric guitar. After Nameless had split, Walli started as a solo guitarist in The
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Teranga marked the end of Hasse Walli's Afro period. When he returned from
Senegal to Finland in June 1993, he thought the time might be now right to return to his 1960s musical roots, and the band Suuret Setelit was launched, playing rock and rhythm & blues. The gigs of Suuret Setelit were
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Jamming with local musicians at clubs, Walli practiced hard to get into the heart of this musical style quite differing from the
Western genres of rock, blues and jazz he had already learned to master. Hasse Walli played with some musicians who had been performing with the legendary
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By 1988 Walli felt he had finally learned enough to compose and arrange Mbalax music and start an all-African band for this (Walli's earlier Afro bands had mostly consisted of
Finnish musicians), and he returned to Dakar for this purpose. Soon got together the new band, called
303:. Hasse Walli Eternal Band was a jazzy project which worked under different line-ups from 1968 to 1971, playing among all at the first Ruisrock festival of Turku in 1970. Other jazz projects of this period where Walli contributed were
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came out in 1989, receiving excellent reviews in world music circles. Walli and
Asamaan played at folk music, jazz and rock festivals, doing also some street performances in Helsinki. Asamaan published two more albums,
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In recent years Walli has been touring with his current band Hasse Walli Power Trio. Additionally, he has worked with guitarist and singer Steve Webb, and they have released two albums together.
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folk song. The band had an enormous live success and Hasse Walli stayed in
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and as a bar musician at the restaurant Fennia. In summer 1969 Walli was planning a new band called
Paradise with the former Jormas members
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