Timo Kotipelto

As someone with a soft spot for European power metal, Timo Kotipelto is a name I respect instantly. Fronting Stratovarius since 1994, he's been the soaring voice on a band that helped define the Finnish melodic metal sound, and the fact that he also runs his own project, Kotipelto, tells me he's an artist who needs more than one outlet. What I admire is the staying power: keeping a high, demanding vocal style intact across decades isn't luck, it's discipline. He feels like one of those musicians more beloved by genre fans than the mainstream, and honestly that's often the better legacy.

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Name (English)

Timo Kotipelto

Name (Japanese)

ティモ・コティペルト

Reading

てぃも・こてぃぺると

Born

March 15, 1969 (age 57)

Origin

Lappajärvi, South Ostrobothnia, Finland

Occupation

singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rooster

• Official sitehttp://www.kotipelto.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timo%20Kotipelto
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%A2%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AB%E3%83%88
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q241965

Tags

• South Ostrobothnia
• singer

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.