Valto Laitinen has been played on NTS shows including Mild Animals, with Gone Away first played on 2 November 2018.

Valto Uolevi Laitinen (November 23 1926 Helsinki - October 11 2004 in Paris, France) was a Finnish jazz musician and entertainment, pianist, composer and arranger ..

He went to school in Helsinki Koelyseossa 1940-1944 and received a discharge certificate. He studied piano, inter alia, school mate Matti Rautio , in the chair and became interested in jazz school in due course, and appeared to begin the various school bands. In 1947 , he joined Olli Hämeen Quintet, which played for a year. His style included Nat King Cole and Lennie Tristano.

In 1948 he formed his own quartet, with which went a year later in Paris. He also started to compose the first half of the 1950s.

In 1958 he moved to Paris again - this time permanently, where he lived life to the end. He surely can not forget his homeland, but a visit to Finland, inter alia, Kaamos JazzFestival.

In Finland, for his compositions, best known songs. When autumn arrives in Helsinki, whose words have been written by Ulla Sand (pseudonym). Maynie Siren song recorded in 1957 and Pentti Lasanen in the 1980s. Another well-known Finnish composer is Laitinen Kai sings them (originally C'est toute une musique), which Katri Helena recorded in 1971.

In France, he was well-known composer, whose songs recorded, inter alia, a well-known chansonlaulaja Mireille Mathieu. He was also a well-known jazz clubs and hotels (including the Hotel Ritz), pianist.