Timo Kämäräinen Bio

Born in Savo and Finland, Timo spent his early years listening to music and banging his mothers piano. He bought his first rock album in 1984, 'Lick It Up' by Kiss.

First band called 'Tigers' was formed on those days. Timo played keyboards and his friend Lasse was a drummer with a nice high-tech set made of pillows.  Timo still has some tapes including his own songs recorded in 1985. After several animal-based band names Timo got bored with 80's music and fell in love with The Beatles. First guitar was bought in 1988, and soon after that he experienced a huge rock'n'roll awakening with bands like Led Zeppelin and Jimi Hendrix. Almost everything from 60's-70's era seemed interesting. In early 90's guitar playing was definitely the biggest part of Timo's life. He had gone through wide variety of musical styles before going to the high school in 1995. He was very influenced by jazz and progressive rock those days and listened musicians like Charlie Parker, Frank Zappa, John McLaughlin and Pat Metheny, still adoring his old favorites Beatles, Neil Young etc.  At high school times he wrote lots of songs. Twist Off, a progressive rock band, was channel for his rock songs meanwhile he was writing instrumental music. Many of those songs are on his debut instrumental album, Unea.

After high school Timo moved to Helsinki and has been playing in many top finnish groups. Styles have varied from experimental rock (Ismo Alanko Säätiö) to free jazz (Pepa Päivinen Quartet). After working as a freelancer for a couple of years Timo wanted to aim his energy to his own projects and so his solo album Unea and Beagon's debut Countryside were released in spring 2005. 

After that a lot has happened: Unea got great reviews in Finnish media, one song from the album "City Rally" was used as a theme song for a famous Finnish talk show. Beagon's new album will be released in August 2007 and the first single from the album, Face my fears, will be in webstores already on 13 June.

In May 2007 Timo played as a soloist to the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and UMO Jazz Orchestra. 

Unea will be globally available on ITunes and other webshops in June 2007. Also the new album of Beagon, Traffic, will be globally distributed on webshops in August 2007.