# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eero-koivistoinen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T16:47:07.149Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/eero-koivistoinen"
name: "Eero Koivistoinen"
slug: "eero-koivistoinen"
description: "Eero Koivistoinen is a Finnish jazz musician and saxophone player, who started his career in the mid-1960s. Koivistoinen has worked as a musician, composer, arranger, conductor, producer and educator. He was born in Helsinki and first heard jazz from the records his sailor brother had brought in from his travels. As a youngster Koivistoinen studied classical violin, saxophone and also composition at the Sibelius Academy, and later jazz at Berklee College of Music in Boston. His first line-up featured the drummer Edward Vesala and bassist Pekka Sarmanto. Koivistoinen was also a member of the seminal Finnish rock band Blues Section in the years 1967 and 1968. In 1968 he released his first solo album, a \"literary record\" called Valtakunta which featured songs composed to the texts of such poets as Pentti Saarikoski, Jarkko Laine, Tuomas Anhava and Hannu Mäkelä; interpreted by the vocalists Vesa-Matti Loiri, Eero Raittinen and Seija Simola. Eero Koivistoinen's later solo albums such as Wahoo (1972) enjoy a considerable international reputation. His hip hop-influenced 2006 album X-Ray features such people as the vocalists Charles Salter and Bina Nkwazi, DJ LBJ and the rap artist Redrama."
tagline: "Finnish musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Eerokoivistoinen.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Musicians"
  slug: "musicians"
profileType:
  name: "Singer / Musician"
  slug: "singer"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q177220"
birthDate: "1946-01-13"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           40.67
  momentum:             8.864324651726227
  historical:           6.804932
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50
  profileCompleteness:  65
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1834664/"
    handle:    "nm1834664"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/8435"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Koivistoinen"
    title: "Eero Koivistoinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Koivistoinen"
    title: "Eero Koivistoinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Koivistoinen"
    title: "Eero Koivistoinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Koivistoinen"
    title: "Eero Koivistoinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eero_Koivistoinen"
    title: "Eero Koivistoinen"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/e6a4d776-739c-4659-bbde-68f7b8b611eb"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1295488"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3500972"
    title: "Eero Koivistoinen"
    type:  "DATABASE"

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