Ola Salo

Actor
BirthdayFeb 19, 1977 (47 years old)
Place of birthAvesta, Dalarnas län, Sweden
GenderMale

Ola Salo is a Swedish rock musician known for being the lead vocalist of glam rock band The Ark. He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Ark. Salo is openly bisexual. Salo and the other members of the band had an international breakthrough in 2000 with the album We Are The Ark, containing the signature song "It Takes a Fool to Remain Sane" (for which Ola won a Grammis for "Song of the Year"), a song Salo wrote after watching the Danish film Idioterne (The Idiots). In October 2006 during a party celebrating the new Swedish embassy in Washington, The Ark was performing on stage. As a plane was flying very low overhead Salo said "In this country, you don't know where those planes are headed. Well, this one seems to be heading in the right direction anyway..." meaning the airport, but then suddenly adding "...to the White House" which happened to be in the same direction. This caused controversy as many newspapers reported that Salo had "wished an airplane to crash into the White House". Salo later said that it was a bad joke, "totally unserious way of being cheeky toward the White House" and not a political statement. The band ended up cancelling almost its entire U.S. tour. On 10 March 2007, Salo and the band The Ark won Melodifestivalen 2007 and went on to represent Sweden in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007 with the song "The Worrying Kind", where, in which they came 18th with 51 points. Salo has recently translated Andrew Lloyd Webber's Jesus Christ Superstar into Swedish for a performance in Malmö this autumn in which he will play the title role of Jesus, and as a result he stated that "2008 will be a very quiet year" for The Ark after a hectic 2007 with the Eurovision Song Contest and the release of Prayer for the Weekend. In 2009. Salo featured on the Empire Dogs' album, Come On You Preachers.

Known for

Gästartist

Sep 5, 1987

Self - Guest

Jan 16, 2009

Self

Oct 23, 2010

Co-Host, The Ark

Feb 26, 1959

Self

Jan 17, 1997

Himself - Guest

Mar 26, 2021

Self - The Ark - Guest

Aug 3, 1979

Himself

Dec 20, 2021

Himself

Jan 1, 2021

Self - Singer

Feb 15, 2012

Self - Guest

Sep 4, 2011

Self - Guest

Feb 21, 2014

Self

Feb 9, 2001

Self

Feb 10, 2001

Himself

Feb 18, 2015

Self - Gästartist

Jun 3, 2005

Self - Musical Guest, Self - Guest

Oct 7, 2010

Himself

Mar 17, 2018

Self

Aug 20, 2011

Gästartist

Sep 5, 1987

Self - Guest

Jan 16, 2009

Self

Oct 23, 2010

Co-Host, The Ark

Feb 26, 1959

Self

Jan 17, 1997

Himself - Guest

Mar 26, 2021

Acting


Participated in 5 movies, 15 TV series


2021

Himself - Guest




2015



2014

Self - Guest



2011

Self - Guest



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