NAME: Ville Hermanni Valo (Valo means Light)
MUSICAL INSTRUMENT: Singer, songwriter and frontman of the band
INSTRUMENT HE PLAYS: sang to a Shure microphone
DATE OF BIRTH: November 22th, 1976 at 08.28 PM
PLACE OF BIRTH: Helsinki
NICKNAMES: Viltsu, Vilpertti, Rakohammas, Zebraman, Vlad Lux, Bil, Don Vitto, Elvis
ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Cuspid Scorpius Sagittarius
HEIGHT: 184 cm
WEIGHT: 66, 6 kg
COLOUR OF EYES: green
COLOUR OF HAIR: dark brown
BROTHERS/SISTERS: Migé, Linde and Jesse (who is 8 years younger than him)
ANIMALS: Gas and Burton
MOVIE: "Nightmare Before Christmas" & "Gone With The Wind"
NUMBER: 0
CITY: Necropolis
FOOD: Body of Christ, Thai-Food, Japanese
DRINK: Blood of Christ, beer with icecubes, Jacky-Coke
HE LIKES: 1980's, Migé's photography, the origin of the Blues, the East Europe folklore, Enochian, Malleus Maleficarum
HE DISLIKES: the Beatles, red meet, the misuse of mind altering substances
HOBBIES: Playing pool, collects records, reading biographies, design grapics with computer
CIVIL STATUS: he has a girlfriend, Jonna (Ville said once, he is bisexual but without experience with male-partners)
BOOK: "Evil's Flowers " Charles Baudelaire and "The Oxford Book Of Death"
IDOLS: Gene Simmons, Edgar Allan Poe, Rauli Somerjorki, Clint Eastwood
BEST SONG: "Sininen Uni" by Tapio Rautavaara
BANDS BEFORE HIM: Eloveena Boys, Aurora, Charlie Parker, Terapia, Winha, Unga Kaskelottär, Natas, B.L.O.O.D. (1986), Kemoterapia (1989), Donits-Osmo Experience (1992)
OTHER JOBS: He used to work as a salsesperson in the sexshop of his dad
SIDEPROJECTS: Daniel Lioneye and the Rollers (drums)

Ville plays also keyboards, guitar, bass and drums

• PERSONAL QUOTES Ist: Love is the funeral of hearts. Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.
• PERSONAL QUOTES IInd: In almost every interview someone asks what does HIM stand for. I can't even remember our latest lie about that. When Hanson was hot, we said it means Hanson Is Murder. The name doesn't have a particular history. His Infernal Majesty was a totally different band. I think HIM derives from some death metal joke.