Full name: Lauri Johannes Ylönen
Instrument: vocals
Date of birth: 23.04.1979
Place of birth: Helsinki (Finland)
Nickname: Lintu (bird)

Lauri Ylönen wasn't the only one child in the family (mother - Liisa, father - Matti). He has and older sister Hanna, who probably encouraged him to sing. Before that Lauri was playing different music instruments such as drums, guitar and piano. At a young age he became attracted to music. He learned to play the piano unwillingly when he was five years old. Later, he also learned to play the guitar and drums. When Ylönen was eight years old starting third grade in elementary school, he met Eero Heinonen and they became close friends during the school year.

Nowadays Lauri is well known as talanted singer, songwriter and composer in Finland and many other countries. He has also fullfilled one of his dreams and composed a movie score for Finnish film "Blackout".

Lauri has also worked on various collaborations with fellow Finns "Apocalyptica" and Ville Valo from "HIM". He has also worked in the production of music for fellow Dynasty members Killer and Kwan, together with bandmate Pauli. In 2007 Lauri and other Dynasty members opened their own recording label, Dynasty Recordings.

Lauri's image is well known for having crow feathers in his hair and has been wearing them since just before their fifth album "Dead Letters" was released. Before releasing album "Black Roses" he has changed his style and dyed his hair blond.

Full name: Eero Aleksi Heinonen
Instrument: bass
Date of birth: 27.11.1979
Place of birth: Helsinki (Finland)
Nickname: Suuntavaisto

Eero Heinonen is a follower of Sahaja Yoga and is a quiet and well-balanced person, but also well-known for playing tricks on bandmates and others. After playing in Korpi Ensemble for many years he now has a new side project (since 2004) called Hay and Stone, where he is bass player and lead singer. Eero also plays the violin.

Eero also isn't the only child in family, he has also two brothers and a sister. He is aslo good at languages. At the age of 15 he started learning German and now he speaks fluently Finnish, Swedish, German and English.

Full name: Pauli Antero Rantasalmi
Instrument: guitar
Date of birth: 01.05.1979
Place of birth: Helsinki (Finland)
Nickname: 1000 (tonni)

Pauli Rantasalmi originally played a traditional Finnish instrument (a Finnish zither). He also used to sing backing vocals on the earlier albums. Pauli describes his voice as being high, in his own words "gayish".

He helped design the "dynasty" logo on two of his guitars. He co-owns the record label Dynasty Recordings with Lauri Ylonen, who is the singer in the band. Together they have also produced one of the Finnish band Killer's album before they split.

Pauli has his own small studio, called - the Grotto! On the back of a few of their singles you may have seen 'Grotto Productions' being meantioned, that's because he's produced some songs on it!

Full name: Aki Markus Hakala
Instrument: drums
Date of birth: 28.10.1979
Place of birth: Espoo (Finland)
Nickname: Hattu (Hat)

Aki Hakala joined the band in 1999, after the former drummer, Janne Heiskanen, left the band to "find himself". Aki originally sold band merchandise at their shows and joined the band after jamming with Pauli. He says that the only thing he was ever good at was drumming, and he "sucked at everything else", although he has done some acting in the past in Siamin tytot (a Finnish drama series) and can play the guitar. Before joining The Rasmus, he was a drummer for Killer and Kwan, (he was replaced by Risto).

In 2006, Aki decided to finally have LASIK eye surgery, and ceased wearing his trademark black glasses. Early 2007, he stopped dying his hair black, opting instead for platinum blond.

© Information aggergated from different sources including Wikipedia.org; Metal From Finland Musicians section and official site of the band.