Jaakko Löytty
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Jaakko Löytty is one of the most significant Finnish gospel
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 musicians. Löytty spent his youth in Namibia
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 with his parents, who were missionaries
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 for the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland
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.

Löytty's musical influences can be found from American
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 blues and also Africa
Africa
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n music. He has composed two albums of music inspired by Senegalese music, Pariisi-Dakar (1992) and Norsunmaitoa (1994).

Discography

  • Asioita, joista vaietaan (1974)
  • Jeesuksen ystäviä (1975)
  • Kuule meitä (1977)
  • Yhteys (1979)
  • Toisen päivän iltana (1982)
  • Laulu yhteisestä leivästä (1984)
  • Hawash! (1984)
  • Missä olenkaan (with Jouko Mäki-Lohiluoma and choir, 1986)
  • Sininen syvyys (1987)
  • Lähtölaulut (1988)
  • Jaakko Löytty elävänä (live, 1989)
  • Vielä mä toivon - matkamiehen iltarukous (1990)
  • Helsinki - Dakar (1991)
  • Nicolas Sarr & Jaakko Löytty (1993)
  • Kuuntelen (compilation, 1993)
  • Norsunmaitoa (1995)
  • Ristinkantajat - Pettuleipägospelia (1996)
  • Omakuva (compilation, 1998)
  • Tiikerisusi (1999)
  • Nälkämaan lauluja (2001)
  • Arkivirsiä (2003)
  • Asioita joista vaietaan (re-release, 2002)
  • Murhehuone (2005)
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