Ville playfully comments that, "Artistically speaking, the main difference between HIM and VV is the extra line in the Heartagram, but what an exquisite line it is!” With VV, the Heartagram has been updated to include two extra lines to form the moniker VV at its centre. The truly iconic image perfectly captures the juxtaposition of the music with the heart representing its softer side, while the pentagram conveys the heavier, darker elements. Something Valo gifted the world when he created it on his 20th birthday. Valo’s evolution from the vampiric leader of HIM to the solo artist known today as VV is represented perfectly via HIM’s iconic Heartagram logo. In fact, VVN Music has ranked him as possessing the eighth-highest vocal range of any known singer in popular music and Loudwire ranked Valo as one of the greatest frontman of the 21st century. With his distinguished baritone five-octave crooner voice, Valo's vocal prowess is unparalleled equally at home making Chris Isaak and Neil Diamond classics his own or wearing his heart on his sleeve on HIM hymns, Funeral Of Hearts, Right Here In My Arms or Wings of A Butterfly. In a saturated musical landscape, being original doesn’t come easy and creating an entire sub-genre is next to impossible, yet with HIM, Valo did just that when he came soaring out of land of the midnight sun and hypnotised the globe with an enchanting mix of dark rock anthems and emotionally charged ballads. Perfectly fusing the melodic and the melancholic, Valo is the embodiment of Johnny Cash, The Sisters Of Mercy, and Elvis with the lyrical elegance of Lovecraft, Poe, and Bukowski. "Brimming with charisma and gothic melodrama, Ville Valo commands your full attention both on and off the stage.
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