Jan Uuspõld (born 14 December 1973) is an Estonian stage, television,
radio and film actor and musician.Jan Uuspõld was born in Tallinn,
the eldest of three sons of Ingar and Heidi Uuspõld. His mother is an
accountant and his father was a long-distance truck driver. He was
raised mostly in Hiiu, Nõmme and attended schools in Keila and
Tallinn. In middle school was enrolled in music class and sang in a
school choir. He graduated from Tallinn's 1st Industrial High School
in 1991 where he trained as an offset printer.As a teenager, he wished
to become a musician. Influenced in part by the Estonian punk rock
band J.M.K.E., he formed a punk band called Trakulla at age fifteen
with several classmates and younger brother Andrus after his mother
gave him money to buy a guitar. The band went through several music
styles and incarnations until eventually being called Luxury Filters
and playing predominately jazz and Texas blues inspired songs. After
recording several songs, the band appeared on the television Eesti
Televisioon (ETV) program 7 vaprat and found a degree of success in
Estonia. Their most popular single, "Tramm nr 66", sung by Uuspõld,
was released in 1992 when Uuspõld was nineteen. The band folded not
long after, but reformed on several occasions, performing on ETV and
the 2013 August Blues Festival in Haapsalu.
radio and film actor and musician.Jan Uuspõld was born in Tallinn,
the eldest of three sons of Ingar and Heidi Uuspõld. His mother is an
accountant and his father was a long-distance truck driver. He was
raised mostly in Hiiu, Nõmme and attended schools in Keila and
Tallinn. In middle school was enrolled in music class and sang in a
school choir. He graduated from Tallinn's 1st Industrial High School
in 1991 where he trained as an offset printer.As a teenager, he wished
to become a musician. Influenced in part by the Estonian punk rock
band J.M.K.E., he formed a punk band called Trakulla at age fifteen
with several classmates and younger brother Andrus after his mother
gave him money to buy a guitar. The band went through several music
styles and incarnations until eventually being called Luxury Filters
and playing predominately jazz and Texas blues inspired songs. After
recording several songs, the band appeared on the television Eesti
Televisioon (ETV) program 7 vaprat and found a degree of success in
Estonia. Their most popular single, "Tramm nr 66", sung by Uuspõld,
was released in 1992 when Uuspõld was nineteen. The band folded not
long after, but reformed on several occasions, performing on ETV and
the 2013 August Blues Festival in Haapsalu.
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