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Kruskopf served as director of the Nordic Art Centre near Helsinki, assistant director at the Finnish National Opera, culture editor at the Finnish newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet, and art history professor at the University of Tromsø. In 1984, he curated an exhibition at the Mingei International Museum in California. 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Born Hellä Muisto Irmeli Mäkelä in Kotka on October 18, 1942, she began her pop singing career at 15 after competing in a local singing contest and working as a soloist in an orchestra. In her twenties, she received a recording contract from the record company Helsinki. 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He served as a Social Democratic MP and worked in journalism at Västra Nyland, Östra Nyland and Vasabladet in the late 1950s. Friberg was also Parliamentary and Labor Market Officer of Hufvudstadsbladet from 1959 to 1963, secretary at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in the newspaper office from 1963 to 1965, and head of the broadcasting company from 1965 to 1970. 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