The first thing you notice about Jyrki, is he stands at 6ft 1 in. He has stringy, long shoulder length dark brown hair, which looks red when the light hits it a certain way that is sometimes tied back in a ponytail and sensual, almost hypnotic emrald green eyes that look like they hold unbridled passion or charisma in them. You would notice that he is clean-shaven and has androgynous facial features, which makes him look cute if not handsome to some people. As you look at Jyrki, you might notice that he does not have this over muscular tone that is associated with bodybuilders or the type that spends all day in the gym, but rather a slender frame, like a dancer or cat, full of energy and grace contained and waiting to explode into violence. When he speaks, you would notice his voice is accented and somewhat deep hinting that he is european, yet at the same time sensual and erotic like Jim Morrisons, also the way he moves and speaks is almost spell binding to watch, almost like a force of nature, you cant help but look and watch him. History: Jyrki Räikkönen was born in Kauniainen, Finland on November 22 at 8 A.M. to a Sami/Finnish Kale father and Romani mother. He has a younger brother and a older sister by one year. From a young age, with the encouragment of his parents, he trained (with help..) his voice to sing and his hands to stroke the strings of a guitar. As he progressed, he trained himself on acoustic guitar and eventually switched over to electric, playing music all day long after school. Jyrki could feel the music deeper and deeper all the time. When he was 16, he started working at his father's sex shop as a cashier and stocker selling Rubber Dildos, Anal Lube, Clothing among other items. There he read the kama sutra and other books on the art of lovemakeing. While closeing late night for by himself a 23 year old woman, Aino walked into the shop and started to look around, Jyrki was use to people coming just before closeing time, put the closed sign on the wall then went back to help her get what she was looking for so he could close the shop and go on home. One thing led to another and Jyrki put what he had learned to good use in the back of the store that night with the woman. They had sex: the most incredible sex young Jyrki could ever recall. After an hour of the intense pleasure, they held each other close and despite the exhausting sex, Jyrki felt more energetic and alive than ever. He listened to the band on the radio, singing quietly along with the tunes he knew. He thought to entertain Aino, but he felt the music swallowing down his throat and filling him with more passion than ever. He didn't know how to focus it all and just held her tighter. His eyes fell on the wall clock in the room just as the hour hand struck twelve. He felt a strange pause, as if everything was stopping, before a delayed reaction -- either his senses, or the world around him After that moment, Aino tugged Jyrki aside and out to her hotel room. She explained to him what he saw, what he was on the border of: Awakening. It meant that with study, the world could be at his fingertips. And she proved with a brief flash of vulgar magick, elemental power crackling at her fingertips. Jyrki was an instant sell. Was this what he always felt? He agreed to learn from Aino Erkko. He still had to finish high school, but the last semester of it wouldn't impede his studies with Aino much. Jyrki attended lessons of strange euphoria, music, dance, drugs, and sex with the sexy finnish babe everyday. He learned the ways of the Cult of Ecstasy. Jyrki learned all about the Hidden World, from the Council of Traditions to the War of Ascension. And Jyrki adapted Aino's teachings. He learned how unlocking his own passions could affect the world. Jyrki realized anyone could do this if they only left their fears behind and threw caution to the wind. One just had to live on the edge. Jyrki's desires ran deeper and deeper as Aino demonstrated little rituals by which he could channel those passions. He formed his own vision, too. He wanted to see everyone experiencing the world and life the way he did, without binding fears. Jyrki decided he could do so best through his talented music. After two years of tuition, Aino released Jyrki. He learned all he could from the older Cultist. It was time he pursued his Path alone. Then from the ages 18-20 he went into the finnish military for a manditory service. It was there he met while visiting a local bar, where he played at whenever he had free time, a married woman Eija-Riitta Rahkamo, a modle for a local magazine and they had a passionate affair with Jyrki sleeping and having a relationship with the married woman who broke it off soon before his manditory stint in the finnish military was up. Then Jyrki made a bold decision, and decided that he would move to the United States to persue his dreams. He arrived in America, heading out weto the east coast eventually making his way to New York, and joined a chantry but rented a small apartment elsewhere in town. Once more, he went to work for a music store to pay the bills. But now he looked for possible bandmates, using the knowledge he had before of the various bands he had been in back home in Finald to his experience. Using his vision and great talent to back it up he went to work. It was while he was looking for bandmates, and also singing at various clubs that he caught the ear of a record producer, his singing and writing abilities caught the ear of a record producer, and to add to his income, he also wrote some lyrics for various popular local artists (using those as a means to an end..), as it was good money plus the royalties. It took several months, but he gathered a few interested guys up from clubs and local rock bands that were falling apart. Jyrkil got Tim Whigham on drums, Chris Consiglio on keyboard, and a guy who called himself "Soup" on bass guitar. They practiced their fresh brand of rock-n-roll in earnest, the four of them, with original lyrics and new sounds and rhythms. So by early fall of the following year, they were ready to play the town. They called themselves Feeling of Ecstasy and scored a few rounds on amateur nights. They quickly gravitated upwards and played a number of nightclubs in town. Feeling of Ecstasy became a local hit and Jyrki was looking forward to propelling themselves regionally. Maybe they'd even get to do cover concerts for national tours. Just as the group was beginning to take off, however, shit happened. First Tim went and got himself injured in a work related accident, putting him out of action for the forseeable future. Then Chris's fiancee moved out to her new job in San Francisco; the pussy-whipped keyboardist followed. It was down to Jyrki and Soup and nothing Jyrki could say could make Soup consider staying in the dead band. Feeling of Ecstasy were finished. But Jyrki wasn't about to give up so easily. He went back to the drawing board and began to recruit all over again. Feeling of Ecstasy would live again and so would his dream. It took awhile, but Jyrki resurfaced again with a new band called Dreams of Trouble (A Gothic Rock/Metal band), and several popular singles, Down In Flames, Battleground, and Grains of Sand.