Henrik Klingenberg
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Henrik "Henkka" Klingenberg (born October 21, 1978 in Mariehamn Åland, Finland) is a keyboardist and singer. He joined the Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica in late 2002 and currently resides in Kokkola, Finland, when not on tour.
Keyboardists he has listed as his favourites include Matt Guillory, Kevin Moore, and Jon Lord. He claims that his musical inspiration is taken from life itself.
[edit] Career
Although his main involvement is with Sonata Arctica, he is also a member of the band Silent Voices and a thrash/groove metal band called Mental Care Foundation (in which he is the vocalist rather than the keyboardist). He has also recently started a melodic death metal side project called Graveyard Shift with his Sonata Arctica bandmate Jani Liimatainen.
Before joining Sonata Arctica, he had participated in a large enough number of bands that he does not bother to list them on his bio page on the official Sonata Arctica website. His most well-known previous band was a progressive power metal band called Requiem, with whom he recorded two albums.
Henrik plays a shoulder-mounted controller keyboard (formerly the Roland AX-1, now the Roland AX-7) and a Kurzweil or Korg Triton synthesizer.
[edit] Personality
Sonata Arctica chose Klingenberg to join after spending time drinking with him and another candidate, since they wanted the newcomer to fit in with the other band members' socially as well as musically.
During live shows, Henrik's portable keyboard allows him to add more energy and movement to the band's performances and he often wanders the stage whilst playing, in the same way that guitarists often do. On the Sonata Arctica live DVD For the Sake of Revenge, Henrik smashed his hand painted Roland AX-7 several times into the floor of the stage in an event that was referred to as the 'End of this Keyboard' (a reference to the band's song 'The End of this Chapter'). This act mirrored the instrument-destroying antics of The Who as well as being a cliché of rock and metal music and it showed Henrik to be a more traditional rock or metal performer.
[edit] External links
| Sonata Arctica (Official site) |
| Tony Kakko | Jani Liimatainen | Henrik Klingenberg | Marko Paasikoski | Tommy Portimo |
| Former members: Janne Kivilahti | Mikko Härkin | Pentti Peura |
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| Discography |
| Singles: "UnOpened" | "Wolf & Raven" | "Last Drop Falls" | "Victoria's Secret" | "Broken" | "Don't Say A Word" | "Shamandalie" | "Replica 2006" | "Paid in Full" |
| Studio Albums: Ecliptica | Silence | Winterheart's Guild | Reckoning Night | Unia |
| EPs: Orientation | Successor | Takatalvi | Don't Say a Word |
| Demos: Friend 'till the End | Agre Pamppers | PeaceMaker | FullMoon |
| Live albums: Songs of Silence | For the Sake of Revenge |
| Compilations: The End of This Chapter | The Collection 1999-2006 |
| DVDs: For the Sake of Revenge |
