Ola Salo

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Male

Birthday 1977-02-19 (47 years old)

Place of Birth Avesta, Dalarnas län, Sweden

Also Known As Rolf Ola Anders Svensson, The Ark

Ola Salo

Biography

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

Actor

2021
2021
2021
Masked Singer Sverige

as Himself - Guest

2018
2015
Renées brygga

as Himself

2014
Stjärnor hos Babben

as Self - Guest

2011
Moraeus Med Mera

as Self - Guest

2011
2010
2010
Hellenius Hörna

as Self - Musical Guest

2010
Hellenius Hörna

as Self - Guest

2009
Skavlan

as Self - Guest

2005
Sommarkrysset

as Self - Gästartist

2001
The Ark

as Self

2001
1997
1987
På spåret

as Gästartist

1979
Allsång på Skansen

as Self - The Ark - Guest

1959
Melodifestivalen

as Co-Host

1959
Melodifestivalen

as The Ark

Writer

1959
Melodifestivalen

as Musical