13 Facts About Uno Loop

Uno Loop was an Estonian singer, musician, athlete, actor, and educator.

Uno Loop performed with various ensembles and as a popular soloist beginning in the 1960s.

Uno Loop worked as an actor, and appeared in several films beginning in the 1960s and in several roles in Estonian television series.

Uno Loop was born in Tallinn to Eduard and Amilde Hildegard Loop and grew up in Tallinn and the village of Nabala in Harju County.

In 1964, Uno Loop wrote the first Estonian language guitar textbook, Kitarrimangu opik, published by Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus and illustrated by Olev Subbi.

From 1975 until 1992, Uno Loop taught guitar, song, and music at the Georg Ots Tallinn Music School.

Uno Loop's last public performance was a concert held at the Nokia Concert Hall in Tallinn on 30 December 2010, and he retired shortly afterwards.

In 1961, Uno Loop garnered his first acting role as Paul in the Viktor Nevezin-directed Tallinna Kinostuudio musical comedy Juhuslik kohtumine, starring Georg Ots and Lia Laats.

Interested in sports since his youth as a boxer, in 1993, Uno Loop founded the XXI Sajandi Klubi and was the club's CEO until 2007, and later was the club's Honorary President.

From 1992 until 1997, Uno Loop was a board member of the Estonian Triathlon Union, and an Honorary Member since 1997.

In 2000, Uno Loop was a founding member of the Estonian Performers' Union, a non-profit organization established to administer and promote the rights of performers by collecting remunerations under the Estonian Copyright Act and distributing them among artists and performers who are entitled to them.

In November 2019, after several health issues, Uno Loop began residing at a nursing home in Keila at age 89.

Uno Loop died following a lengthy illness on 8 September 2021, aged 91.