Risto Juvose, referred to as a live performance organizer, has a mission occurring all of the time: “Just lying down might be a nightmare”

Risto Juvonen has delivered star performers to Finland from Madonna to Rammstein, however he has also made a name for himself as a boxing coach.

Risto Juvonen is known as a long-time influencer in the track enterprise, a live performance promoter and a boxer Eva Wahlströmin as a teach inside the ultimate years of his expert career. During the ultimate couple of years, however, Juvonen’s interest has been drawn some place else: the development challenge of a second apartment in Kirkkonummi.

Now it’s k to pose in the front of the newly finished residence. Juvonen constructed a boomerang-shaped timber residence on the beach, the roof of the huge terrace is pierced with the aid of firs and pines which have grown at the plot for many years.

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The constructing Juvonen hired as an architect Tuomas Silvennoinen, who's, among other matters, the award-winning major fashion designer of the brand new major constructing of Jätkäsaari’s West Terminal. The imaginative and prescient of the boomerang is Juvonen’s.

“I want projects. Just laying there… it might be a nightmare. In the conventional experience, I don’t suppose I’ll ever retire,” says Juvonen.

Juvose might have had the economic opportunity to retire for twenty years. Juvose, who grew up in Vantaa’s Simonkylä and worked for a couple of years at the Wiima bus frame manufacturing facility, became a magnate in his early forties whilst he bought the live performance employer he owned, Welldone, to the USA occasion industry massive Live Nation.

 

 

Large firs and pines burst thru the roof of the terrace of Risto Juvonen’s house. Picture: Pasi Kostiainen

As one however, Juvonen considers his high-quality achievements to be that he went to a exchange university and evening excessive faculty in his early twenties – and completed the excessive college curriculum in 12 months.

His economics research on the University of Helsinki had been interrupted when he drifted off to arrange live shows. The punctual guy had a use inside the song enterprise, in which “enterprise” was nonetheless a curse word for lots in the Nineteen Eighties. In the Nineties and 2000s, Juvonen grew live performance activities and taken all viable celebrity performers to Finland From Madonna to Bruce Springsteen and About Michael Jackson Rolling Stonesiin.

There are lots of stories approximately stars, despite the fact that Juvonen usually remains inside the background and does now not pose for organization pics with the artists.

“Recently deceased Tina Turner ended their tour in 2000 with two concerts at Finnair Stadium in Helsinki. At their request, we prepared a closing party. The manager desired to introduce me to Turner, who stated with a twinkle in his eye: ‘So young – I hate you!’ You wouldn’t say anymore: now I’m the equal age as he become then.”

Juvonen turns 60 on Friday, July 7.

“In the conventional experience, I don’t suppose I’ll ever retire,” says Risto Juvonen. Picture: Pasi Kostiainen

Idleness Juvonen tried it after leaving his job as CEO and head promoter of Live Nation in 2010. Traveled, tended the garden and practiced boxing.

“Boxing is the simplest factor I never get bored with.”

For example, gardening has due to the fact that been left at the back of. The yard of the Kirkkonummi house has been left in its herbal state.

However, Juvonen has noticed that vintage things can also begin to interest him once more. Through his own employer, he acted as a promoter at Rammstein’s concerts in Finland and the Baltics recently.

“It become amusing to have my fingers in clay for a long term. Things went thru me, that hasn’t took place in years.”

There is promise of a continuation, despite the fact that Juvonen not plans to organize year-spherical live performance activities. Or that he'll go back to his day task at Live Nation, in which he went as a consultant and chairman of the board after his sabbatical.

I went while asked as soon as – and the sensation of being idle became uninteresting.

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“Boxing is the best component I by no means get uninterested in.”

CORONAVIRUS SUMMER 2020 Juvonen left Live Nation once more. Appropriate timing, due to the fact seeing that then there were enough difficulties within the occasions enterprise. When the pandemic was over, Russia’s battle of aggression in Ukraine closed the route for performers arriving in Finland to Russia. Among others, the Rolling Stones, Madonna and Springsteen have skipped the Finnish gigs on their final tours.

However, Juvonen is specifically saddened by way of the fact that the Helsinki corridor, referred to as the Hartwall area, stands unused because of its Russian ownership and sanctions towards the corridor.

“It’s a horrific thing for the entire of Helsinki, when the thousands and thousands in profits from the events are neglected. It have to be feasible to enact a few regulation that permits the hall to be positioned into use temporarily.”

In the area have seen masses of occasions organized by means of Juvonen, from monster motors to dinosaur indicates, musicals, concerts – and boxing suits.

Thanks to boxing, Juvonen himself has been within the limelight. In his time, he gained the children Finnish championship twice. And the coaching of the last years of Eva Wahlström’s professional profession took Juvosen, whom Wahlström calls “Cruel”, to the ringside of the World Cup fits in locations like Las Vegas and New York.

“It became a excellent revel in. My primary role turned into to carry something new to the last years of Eva’s profession. His style have become extra energetic and attacking.”

• Born in 1963 in Helsinki County.
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• Studied economics on the University of Helsinki
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• Sold the Welldone programming business enterprise he founded in 2000 to Live Nation. Worked as CEO and chief promoter of Live Nation till 2010 and as chairman of the board inside the 2010s.
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• Acts as a live performance promoter through his very own RJ Investments Oy. Among different things, a member of the board of the Stadion Foundation.
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• As a boxing train, e.G. For Eva Wahlström.
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• Lives in Helsinki and Kirkkonummi. Divorced,  grown youngsters.
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• Turns 60 on Friday, July 7, 2023.