Kuusisto was orphaned when he was just a few weeks old and was subsequently taken in by his grandparents who also lived in Tampere. Kuusisto's performances were also recorded on Yleisradio's base tapes.Mauno Arnold Kuusisto was born on Novemin Tampere, Finland. Mauno Kuusisto's best-known performances include "Tell It to Him" (1959), "Romance" (composed by Pyotr Tchaikovsky, 1959), "My Beautiful Homeland" (1959), "Candles at Home" (1959), and "Why?" (Warum ?, 1964), “Edelweiss” (1966), “Is Somewhere” (1967), “Silent Violin” (1971), “Seagull” (1971) and “My Life is My Song” (1971). According to Aki Hietala's master's thesis Mauno Kuusisto - Singer of Beautiful Songs (2007), Kuusisto was much more versatile than the public image has suggested. Kuusisto was widely known abroad for his lyrical tenor voice. His repertoire included folk songs, spiritual music, opera, romance, operetta and entertainment music. With his songs, Kuusisto acted as a bridge-builder between different music styles, thus shaping the taste of Finnish music. In the early 1960s, Kuusisto became a popular phenomenon at the same time as the rise of youth music, although as a singer he represented a pure classical singing ideal and a bel Canto style. He also starred in When the Judge Blossoms (1962).
(1961), which was his debut on the big screen. Most of the songs performed by Kuusisto were arranged by Erkki Melakoski and George de Godzinsky, some also by Ensio Kosta (Sten Ducander). Kuusisto's performance was written in Finnish by Sauvo Puhtila under the nickname "Thyme". Henry Theel recorded it as Reino Helismaa in Finnish as early as 1955 under the title “Take me my songs”, but without success. Kuusisto said he later heard the song on the radio, sung by Mario Lanza while on a vacation trip to Venice in the mid-1950s. With a sales of 47,000 copies, it is Finland's best-selling Finnish single ever. Thanks to this, Kuusisto rose to the popularity of the percussion audience, and “Tell It to Him” reached the gold record sale as a single. On the B side of the album was the song “Tell It to Him” (1959) composed by Rodolfo Falvo in Italy in 1930. He came up with the idea for the single “Reflection”. At that time, producer Johan Vikstedt wanted to make a record where Kuusisto sings. The sound of Kuusisto became known in radio appearances in the 1950s. Kuusisto performed in opera roles mostly in 1952–1968. Kuusisto also visited the Helsinki National Opera twice. Eero Kosonen, the conductor of the Tampere Orchestra, was happy to attract them to these roles. He sang a total of 21 operetta and opera roles at the Tampere Opera. He had his own first concert in 1952 in Tampere. He then studied singing and visited Tampere choirs and quartets. Mauno Kuusisto initially participated in Finlayson's own music operations. However, he was offered a job as a model carpenter at Finlayson, where he began working before the wars. Mauno Kuusisto graduated from the metal line of the old vocational school in Pyynikki. As a child, he lived in the Finlayson workers' house in Tampere and, as a teenager, became a “fat boy” to oil weaving machines.
He spent his childhood summers in Volt, Ostrobothnia, Ostrobothnia. Mauno Kuusisto was orphaned at the age of a few months and grew up with his grandparents. Mauno Arnold Kuusisto (NovemTampere - AugTampere) was a Finnish percussion and opera singer (lyrical tenor).
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