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Valdo Randpere | |
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Born | 4 February 1958 |
Education | University of Tartu |
Occupation(s) | Musician, businessman, politician |
Valdo Randpere (born 4 February 1958) is an Estonian politician, musician and businessman.
Randpere was born in Tallinn and graduated from the University of Tartu with a law degree (cum laude) in 1982.
In 1984, he escaped from Soviet Estonia together with his then wife Leila Miller and moved to Sweden.
Since 1998 Valdo Randpere was serving as Country general manager for IBM Estonia.
In 2008, Valdo Randpere won the Estonian version of the Just the Two of Us (Laulud Tähtedega) reality television singing contest in duet with Estonian singer Eda-Ines Etti.
Randpere has been elected member of Estonian Riigikogu since 2011. In the 2023 elections he received 1,169 votes in electoral district number 2, which covers Tallinn Central, Lasnamäe, and Pirita districts. Randpere entered the Riigikogu as a substitute for Heidy Purga, who became the Minister of Culture. [1]
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