Vilho Kekkonen(1909-2014)

He received a cantor-organist degree, and later, a diploma in singing at the Sibelius Academy, at the age of 41. In the intervening time, he sang in the Finnish Opera chorus and played supporting roles in movies.

I was riding on a horse-drawn sleigh in the moonlight and singing Lenski's aria from Tchaikovsky's opera "Eugene Onegin", and I survived. It is the highest fee I have ever been paid for one song. (on passing Soviet snipers unharmed in the 1939 Winter War)