Facts: - years active: 1968 -- present - caption: pekka ronnie Osterberg , pekka pohjola , and jukka gustavson in '' april 1974 . rekku '' rechardt , jim pembroke , - origin: finland - genre: progressive rock - name: wigwam - image size: 230 - background: group_or_band - image: wigwam rockband.jpg - current members: jim mats hulden jari '' kepa '' kettunen pembroke pekka '' rekku '' rechardt esa kotilainen Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of wigwam -lrb- finnish band -rrb- .
wigwam is a finnish progressive rock band formed in 1968 .wigwam was founded after the split of the seminal blues section , with whom drummer ronnie Osterberg had played before .he formed the band as a trio , but soon brought in british expatriate singer/songwriter jim pembroke -lrb- also in bs -rrb- and organist jukka gustavson .a year later , pekka pohjola joined on bass .kim fowley produced wigwam 's second album '' tombstone valentine '' -lrb- 1970 -rrb- .this album also featured an excerpt of erkki kurenniemi 's electronic composition ' dance of the anthropoids ' .the 1974 album '' being '' is often called wigwam 's masterpiece .after its release , though , pohjola and gustavson quit the band .commercially the most successful wigwam album must be the more pop-oriented '' nuclear nightclub '' that followed in 1975 , with new members pekka rechardt on guitar and mans groundstroem on bass .for a time in the 1970s wigwam seemed poised to break through in europe , along with bands like tasavallan presidentti , but even though they were highly praised by the uk press large-scale international fame eluded them , and by 1978 they had disbanded .jim pembroke and ronnie Osterberg formed the jim pembroke band in late 1979 , but following health problems with diabetes , Osterberg committed suicide on december 6 , 1980 .wigwam reformed in the 1990s with the pembroke-rechardt-groundstroem core intact , and has been active to the present .in finland they have a lasting -lrb- although limited -rrb- following , and their influence on finnish rock music is widely recognised .