Henrik Klingenberg

Infobox Musical artist
Name = Henrik Klingenberg


Img_capt = Henrik Klingenberg at Sauna Open Air Metal Festival 2007
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Background = musician
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Alias = Henkka
Born = Birth date and age|1978|10|21|mf=y
Origin = Kokkola, Finland
Instrument = Keyboards, keytar
Genre = Power metal Progressive metal Melodic death metal
Occupation = Musician
Years_active = 1995–present
Label = Nuclear Blast
Associated_acts = Sonata Arctica Requiem Silent Voices Mental Care Foundation Graveyard Shift
URL = [http://www.sonataarctica.info/site07/ www.sonataarctica.info/site07/]
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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 Kevin Moore, Jon Lord, Jens Johanssoncite web|title="Paid In Full" - Sonata Arctica keyboardist Henrik Klingenberg dreams success for fifth studio album "Unia"|author=Morgan, Anthony|publisher=Lucem Fero|date=2007-04|url=http://www.lucemfero.com/sonataarctica042007.php|accessdate=2008-05-06] and Matt Guillory. He claims that his musical inspiration is taken from life itself.

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 as vocalist with his former 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 and contributed keyboards.

Henrik plays a shoulder-mounted controller keyboard (formerly the Roland AX-1, then the Roland AX-7, now AX-1 again) and a Kurzweil, Korg Karma or Korg Triton synthesizer.

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.

In the documentary "Men of the North in Japan", Henrik is shown wearing a traffic cone on his head, which has become a trademark of sorts for fans.

References

External links

* [http://www.sonataarctica.info/ Official Sonata Arctica website]
* [http://www.sonataarctica.info/index.php?henrik&en Henrik's profile]
* [http://www.henrikklingenberg.com/ HenrikKlingenberg.com]