Mauno Arnold Kuusisto (November 3, 1917, Tampere â€" August 29, 2010,
Tampere), was a popular Finnish vocalist and opera singer (tenor), as
well as an actor.Mauno Arnold Kuusisto was born on November 3, 1917 in
Tampere, Finland. Kuusisto was orphaned when he was just a few weeks
old and was subsequently taken in by his grandparents who also lived
in Tampere. He resided in a Finlayson workers' house during the
remainder of his life as a child and then by the time he was a
teenager he began to work for the company.Kuusisto completed his
schooling at the Pyynikin old vocational school. However, he was
offered a place as a model carpenter at Finlayson which he accepted
and began to work before the Winter War. He worked for Finlayson until
the year of 1957.Mauno Kuusisto initially participated in Finlayson's
musical activities. Since then, Kuusisto began to study singing and
visited choirs and quartets in Tampere. He had his first concert in
1952 in Tampere. In the Tampere Opera he sang a total of twenty-one
operas and operetta roles. Tampere orchestra leader Eero Kosonen
gladly paid him for these roles. Kusisto also visited the Finnish
National Opera in Helsinki, Finland, twice. Kuusisto appeared as part
of the cast in these operas mostly between 1952â€"1968. Mauno Kuusisto Biography, NetWorth, Height, Age, Weight, Family, Married, Son, Daughter