Pertti Reponen

Finnish lyricist, musician and TV writer and producer. Born August 20th, 1941 in Joensuu, Finland. Died August 31st, 1998 in Helsinki, Finland.

Reponen started his musical career in the early 1960s in the Finnish folk movement. After the mid 1960s he started writing song lyrics professionally. He was one of most productive lyricists in the 1970s in Finland. In the 1980s and 1990s he also wrote scripts for TV shows.

Pertti Reponen used pseudonym Alan Dorkin.