Jani Hölli

Jani Kristian "Jay" Hölli is a Finnish Musician from Tampere. He has played keyboards in several Finnish Power and Progressive Metal bands. These have included, Snakegod, Dingo, Soulrelic, Villieläin, Technical Justice and Leewings. He is the current keyboard player in the Finnish multi genre band, Waltari.[1]

Hölli has been playing piano since the age of 9 and is a classically trained pianist. He received formal tuition for seven years at a school which he attended.[2] He studied songwriting at the prestigious Sibelius Academy for a year in 2010.

He has written and arranged songs for a variety of artists such as DCX, Terhi Matkainen and Abraham Mateo[3] As a songwriter, Hölli has amassed a revenue cut in a total of over 7 million album sales worldwide. He co-wrote the Techno Dance song, Screams with Joel Kalsi which was performed by Kalsi and Applejack and featured vocals by UK artist Tina Cousins who has had 5 UK top 20 hits.

Hölli is a fan of the Eurovision Song Contest and has entered the competition multiple times as both a songwriter and a performer. In 2010, as a part of the band Villieläin, he entered the initial stages of the Finnish Euroviisut song selection process with the song Ei Minua which means Not Me in English. The song gained a large number of votes during the online voting phase of the competition, however despite this it failed to reach the top ten in the voting and therefore the song did not progress into the live, televised semi finals. Played with glam-rock band Stala & SO. in 2011, as special keyboard player. His second entry to the Euroviisut in 2012 was more successful. He co-wrote the song Erase You by DCX, which reached position 9 in the semi-finals. In 2014 he composed a song with lyricist and songwriter Efrem Macheras called No Money, No Honey which was put forward for selection as a potential entry for Cyprus in the 2015 Eurovision Song Contest. The song was performed by Elena Panagi.

Jani wrote songs for two of the finalists of a popular, televised music talent competition in Finland called Idols. These are Agnes Pihlava and Kalle Löfström

Hölli was involved with the musical scoring and production of a short film about a man's struggle with long term diabetes called Dia-Cide.[4]

He uses Korg Triton and Yamaha DX-9 Keyboards.