# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/aksel-kankaanranta
# Generated: 2026-08-14T22:51:38.483Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/aksel-kankaanranta"
name: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
slug: "aksel-kankaanranta"
description: "Aksel Kankaanranta is a Finnish singer. He was due to represent Finland in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam with the song \"Looking Back\", before the event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2017, he finished second in The Voice of Finland. He was born in Turku."
tagline: "Finnish singer"
image: "https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w500/9WjpEUXo3ZqxjYBnNR6VoFoJKRy.jpg"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1998-01-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           58.28
  momentum:             6.473118279569893
  historical:           15.56090933333333
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     85
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
totalFollowers: 139
platforms:
  - platform:  "INSTAGRAM"
    url:       "https://www.instagram.com/okraranta/"
    handle:    "okraranta"
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/AkselOkra"
    handle:    "AkselOkra"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm11403906/"
    handle:    "nm11403906"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/7N3Dxs6jonjiDZ2MnfUCPl"
    handle:    "7N3Dxs6jonjiDZ2MnfUCPl"
  - platform:  "YOUTUBE"
    url:       "https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFjE44Qi68eFE0hN12nyUWQ"
    handle:    "@akselkankaanranta9428"
    followers: 139
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/6380539"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%A7%D7%A1%D7%9C_%D7%A7%D7%A0%D7%A7%D7%90%D7%A0%D7%A8%D7%A0%D7%98%D7%94"
    title: "אקסל קנקאנרנטה"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%BA%D0%B0%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%82%D0%B0%2C_%D0%90%D0%BA%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB"
    title: "Канкаанранта, Аксел"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://tr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksel_Kankaanranta"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/48c11370-628c-42ee-9ad6-6e2c56483b22"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q83402937"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3822173"
    title: "Aksel Kankaanranta"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump