Background
His father was tango singer Yrjö Johannes aka "Ylli" Tammilehto (also known as Tapio Tammilehto).
His father was tango singer Yrjö Johannes aka "Ylli" Tammilehto (also known as Tapio Tammilehto).
Some of Sorsakoski"s cousins are also musicians: Seppo Tammilehto, who has played in Alwari Tuohitorvi and later had a solo career, and Juhani Tammela, who has played old dancehall music in his quintet in the 1960s. Next Sorsakoski worked as the guitarist in the band The Boys. In the 1980s, he started performing together with the band Agents, also singing songs earlier performed by Olavi Virta.
Sorsakoski later had a solo career and also worked with the band Kulkukoirat.
He returned to for a time to the Agents beginning in May 2007. Sorsakoski died on Saturday, 13 August 2011 at Seinäjoki Central Hospital.
He was 58 years old and had suffered from lung cancer.
