Sauli Lehtonen

Finnish singer

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Sauli Lehtonen
Birth name	Sauli Tapani Lehtonen
Born	(1975-04-10)10 April 1975 Jyväskylä, Finland
Died	9 September 1995(1995-09-09) (aged 20) Helsinki, Finland
Genres	Finnish tango
Years active	1994–1995
Labels	MTV Musiikki

Musical artist

Sauli Tapani Lehtonen (10 April 1975 in Jyväskylä, Finland – 9 September 1995 in Helsinki, Finland) was a Finnish tango singer.

Biography

In 1994, he was crowned the tenth Tango King when he won a Finnish tango competition Tangomarkkinat. On 8 September 1995 Lehtonen and his father, who was driving the car, hit a moose in Sipoo. Lehtonen died in the Töölö Hospital in Helsinki in the early morning of 9 September 1995.

Lehtonen was well known for the way he kept his eyes closed when he was singing.^[1]