1. At the beginning of the 1930s, in Joensuu, Esa acquired a five-line accordion from a rectified spirits trading bootlegger and then joined an amateur band called Keskiyo.
10 Facts About Esa Pakarinen
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The Winter War, which broke out in 1939, invited Esa Pakarinen to serve his homeland in an air defence battery near Jyvaskyla, and, after the outbreak of the Continuation War, Pakarinen was assigned to an air defence battery in Haapamaki.
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Esa Pakarinen used to fooling around with his tour partners without dentures; later, that toothless side character got a name from Reino Helismaa: Severi Suhonen.
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Rautavaara went his separate ways in the autumn of 1950, after which Esa Pakarinen continued to accompany Helismaa.
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Later that year, in connection with filming of Lentava kalakukko, Esa Pakarinen got to know Martti "Masa" Niemi, who then became known as Patka in the Puupaa films.
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Esa Pakarinen was last seen in the role of a film Meiltahan tama kay from 1973, directed by Matti Kassila.
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Esa Pakarinen started working as a baker in the department stores as Severi Suhonen, although he didn't particularly like this kind of activity.
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At the age of 63, in 1974, Esa Pakarinen made a bold conquest by singing rock.
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Esa Pakarinen's comeback culminated in a seminar held in 1978 in her hometown of Varkaus, which featured his old buddies.
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Esa Pakarinen died of cancer in his hometown of Varkaus on 28 April 1989.