Tarmo Urb

Tarmo Urb born September 9 1952 in Tartu is an Estonian songwriter singer actor and healer He studied at Tartu 8th Secondary School and sang in the Tartu Boys Choir He continued his studies in 1970 at the Tartu State University majoring in English philology and in 1976 at the Tallinn State Conservatory of Performing Arts He spent five years in various places of detention and in a psychoneurological hospital until 1987 for several attempts to cross the border and setting a bad example for Soviet youth For example he tried to leave the Soviet Union by walking through the Finnish Karelia ANSV Left Sweden in 1988 he has lived in the United States Los Angeles and New York since 1989 For decades brothers Tarmo and Toomas Urb have been performing lyrical chamber songs both in Estonia and America His brother is the singer and actor Toomas Urb Tarmo Urbs son Johann Urb is an actor