Koop Arponen

Koop Juho Alexander Arponen (born 20 April 1984 in Lappeenranta, Finland) is a Finnish singer and the winner of the fourth series of the Idols in 2008. Koop Arponen was born in Lappeenranta, Eastern Finland to a Finnish father and a Dutch mother. When he was two, his family moved to Belgium and to England a few years later where he attended Cheam High School in Cheam, Surrey, between 1995 and 2002. He was elected as Head Boy of the School in 2001. At the age of five he started to play the piano, but quit 6 years later. At the age of 16 he started to play it again and also started to compose music. While doing his national service in the Finnish Army, he learnt to play the guitar. In England he studied at the University of Hull...