Pepe Willberg

Pepe Willberg
Pepe Willberg in 2011
Background information
Born	Toivo Pertti Uolevi Kaukonen (1946-12-17) 17 December 1946 (age 78) Turku, Finland
Origin	Helsinki, Finland
Genres	schlager
Occupation(s)	Singer, songwriter, guitarist
Years active	1962–present
Website	pepewillberg.com

Pertti "Pepe" Willberg (formerly Toivo Pertti Uolevi Willberg, ^[1] till 1955 Kaukonen; ^[2] born 17 December 1946) is a Finnish singer, songwriter and guitarist.

Biography

Willberg was born in Turku and started his musical career in the beginning of the 1960s, playing the rhythm guitar in a Lauttasaari (Helsinki) based band called the Islanders. Since then he has performed, for example as the lead singer for the bands Jormas and Pepe & Paradise. In addition to his solo career Willberg has also appeared with groups such as the Finntastic, Mestarit (Masters), and Poptenorit (Poptenors). His tenth solo album Pepe & Saimaa was nominated for IMPALA's European Independent Album of the Year Award. ^[3]

Discography

Solo albums

• Sinulle (1976)
• Päivä tuskin päättyis kauniimmin (1979)
• 20 vuotta (1984)
• Kun joulu on (albumi) (1986)
• Yksi ruusu (1986)
• Tulit valona maailmaan (1990)
• Syliisi aamuun jään (1999)
• Kynttilöiden syttyessä (2005)
• Kaukaa kaipaan (2007)
• Pepe & Saimaa (2014)

Co-operative albums

• Jormas: Jormas (album) (1966)
• M. A. Numminen ystävineen: M. A. Numminen In memoriam (1967) (vocal in "Viiskulmassa on viisi kulmaa")
• Jormas: Sincerely! (1968)
• Pepe & Paradise: Niin vähän on aikaa (1972)
• Pepe & Paradise: Pepe & Paradise (album) (1973)
• Pepe & Paradise: Pepe & Paradise 2 (1975)
• Hukkaputki: Hukkaa päälle! (1983)
• Mestarit: Mestarit Areenalla (1999)
• Tommy Tabermann & Olli Ahvenlahti: Kaksi ihoa (2007)

Collections

• Pepe Willberg & Jormas: Pepen parhaat - The Best of Pepe (1972)
• Parhaat päältä - The top of the tops (1978)
• Parhaat (Pepe Willberg/Overdisc) - The Best (1987)
• Parhaat (Pepe Willberg/Fazer Finnlevy) - The Best (1989)
• Toivotut - The Most Wanted (1992)
• 20 suosikkia – Rööperiin - 20 Favourites – To Rodberg (1996)
• Jormas: 20 suosikkia – Saat miehen kyyneliin - 20 Favourites – You Make a Man Cry (1996)
• 20 suosikkia – Lady Madonna- 20 Favourites – Lady Madonna (1998)
• 14 suomalaista kestosuosikkia - 14 All Time Favourites of Finland (1998)
• 14 rakastettua kansanlaulua - 14 Loved Folk Songs (1998)
• Elämältä kaiken sain - I Got Everything from My Life (1999)
• Pepe & Paradise: 70's Radio Hits (2000)
• Jormas: Saat miehen Rööperiin - You'll Get a Man to Rodberg (2001)
• Lauluja rakkaudesta (Pepe Willberg) - Songs of Love (2006)
• Luokses palaan taas (2CD) - I'll Come Back to You (2006)

Charts

Pepe Willberg

(Albums appearing in Suomen virallinen lista)

Year	Album	Peak positions
		FIN [4]
1999	Mestarit Areenalla (Kirka, Hector, Pave Maijanen & Pepe Willberg)	1
	Syliisi aamuun jään	34
	Elämältä kaiken sain - 18 suosituinta	22
2014	Pepe & Saimaa	1

References

1. Tolonen, Jussi: Kuka Nyt: Mihin kaatui hippiaate, Pepe Willberg? Nyt Supplement of Helsingin Sanomat, 47/2006, p. 2. In Finnish.
2. Kemppainen, Jouni K.: Pepe Willberg on 67 ja ykkönen. Helsingin Sanomat 7 June 2014.
3. "23 albums up for European Independent Album of the Year Award". IMPALA. 29 January 2015. Archived from the original on 26 February 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2015.
4. "Pepe Willberg discography". finnishcharts.com. Hung Medien. Retrieved 16 May 2014.

See also

• Official website
• Unofficial webpage for Pepe Willberg Archived 11 July 2003 at the Wayback Machine
• Pepe Willberg in Pomus.net
• Jormas & Pepe Willberg. YLE Elävä arkisto. (The tape archives of the Finnish Broadcasting Company.)