Career
He lived in Rottne, Växjö Municipality, in Sweden when he was a child, where, in 1991, he and his friends Jepson and Leari officially started the band The Arkansas Salo is openly bisexual. In October 2006 during a party celebrating the new Swedish embassy in Washington, The Ark was performing on stage.
As a plane was flying very low overhead Salo said "In this country, you don"t know where those planes are headed.
Well, this one seems to be heading in the right direction anyway.." meaning the airport, but then suddenly adding "..to the White House" which happened to be in the same direction. This caused controversy as many newspapers reported that Salo had "wished an airplane to crash into the White House".
Salo later said that it was a bad joke, "totally unserious way of being cheeky toward the White House" and not a political statement. The band ended up cancelling almost its entire United States. tour.
Salo has recently translated Andrew Lloyd Webber"s Jesus Christ Superstar into Swedish for a performance in Malmö this autumn in which he will play the title role of Jesus, and as a result he stated that "2008 will be a very quiet year" for The Ark after a hectic 2007 with the Eurovision Song Contest and the release of Prayer for the Weekend.
In 2009. Salo featured on the Empire Dogs" album, Come On You Preachers.