Gunnar Graps

Actor

Tartu, Tartu County, Estonian SSR, USSR [now Estonia]

November 27, 1951

Biography

Gunnar Graps-Grāfs (November 27, 1951 – May 17, 2004) was a popular Estonian musician and one of the pioneers of hard rock in Estonia and Soviet Union. He has sold hundreds of thousands of records all over the world and in 2004 Graps was given a lifetime award at Estonian Music Awards. He has been compared to Mick Jagger and Alice Cooper, both who were his own personal idols, and is often called Raudmees (Iron man).