About Burton (musician)
Janne Johannes Puurtinen, better known as Burton or Emerson Burton, is a Finnish musician. He is best known as the keyboardist of the Finnish gothic rock band HIM, with whom he has released six studio albums, and has gone on to become one of the most commercially successful Finnish bands of all time. Outside of HIM, Burton has performed and recorded with various bands, including Daniel Lioneye, Suburban Tribe and Torpedo. While in school, Burton played in a variety of different bands, but the first "real" group he played with was Cosmos Tango, who won the Finnish Rock Championship in 1997. Both cracked the top ten in several countries, and became the band's first albums to chart in the United Kingdom and the United States. Cosmos Tango released one album in 1999, by which point Burton had already joined Suburban Tribe, with whom he recorded the album Elektro 57, which was released in 1998.
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