page_title: List of Finnish Americans
section_title: Musicians
hierarchical_section_title: List of Finnish Americans / List / Musicians
caption_attribution_description: English: Charles Wuorinen, composer. Photo by Howard Stokar
context_page_description: The following is a list of Finnish Americans, including both original immigrants who obtained American citizenship and their American descendants.
  To be included in this list, the person must have a Wikipedia article showing they are Finnish American or must have references showing they are Finnish American and are notable.
context_section_description: Sylvester Ahola, jazz musician
  Muriel Anderson (born 1960), guitarist and harp-guitarist
  Carla Harvey (born 1976), singer
  Jillian Hervey (born 1989), singer and dancer
  Mark Hoppus (born 1972), bass player in Blink-182
  Jorma Kaukonen (born 1940), blues, folk and rock guitarist
  Peter Kaukonen (born 1945), blues, folk and rock guitarist; younger brother of Jorma Kaukonen
  Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), influential jazz bassist
  Amelia Presley, (born 1989), singer and songwriter of Country music duo, Highway Sisters; raised in the small Finnish community of Franklin Creek, Mississippi.  Presley’s paternal great grandmother came to the area from Michigan with her mother and father, Anders Thomasson Kennakkala (changed to Andrew Thompson), along with other Finnish immigrant families in the 1900s.  Amelia Presley celebrates her Finnish heritage with the community via a yearly “Silver Tea” held around Christmas time at the Finnish Lutheran Church in Kreole, MS. 
  Wilho Saari, Kantele musician
  Hiski Salomaa (1891–1957), folk singer and songwriter
  Esa-Pekka Salonen (born 1958), orchestral conductor and composer; Principal Conductor and Artistic Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic
  T-Bone Slim (1890?–1942?), humourist, poet, songwriter, hobo, and a labour activist in the Industrial Workers of the World
  Einar Aaron Swan, jazz musician
  David Uosikkinen (born 1956), rock drummer
  Osmo Vänskä (born 1953), orchestral conductor, clarinetist and composer; music director of the Minnesota Orchestra
  Bobby Vee (born 1943), rock singer, 1960s teen idol, Finnish on his mother's side (Tapanila)
  Charles Wuorinen (1938–2020), Pulitzer Prize-winning composer
caption: Charles Wuorinen
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