Antti Joonas "Jone" Nikula (born March 30 in 1970) is Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 television

Television

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 and radio

Radio

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 personality and a jack-of-all-trades in the music industry. He became well-known as a judge in the TV show Idols

Idols (Finland)

Idols is a Finnish reality-television singing competition that airs on MTV3 . It debuted in the summer of 2003, and went on to become one of the most popular shows on Finnish television...

. He is the only judge to appear in all the seasons of Idols. Before his TV popularity, Nikula has – among other things – been a host on Radio City (Finnish radio station), and marketing manager of EMI Music Finland

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

. Since 2007, Nikula and Kotiteollisuus

Kotiteollisuus

Kotiteollisuus is a Finnish hard rock/heavy metal band that was formed in 1991 in Lappeenranta. The band released its first demo tape in 1993 under the name "Hullu ukko ja Kotiteollisuus" . The shortened name and current line-up was established in 1997.Kotiteollisuus is said to combine "furious...

 frontman Jouni Hynynen

Jouni Hynynen

Jouni Kalervo Hynynen is the guitarist/vocalist in Kotiteollisuus, a Finnish heavy metal band. He also writes the band's music along with his bandmates, and contributes majority of the lyrics. He has also written books, hosted a reality TV show called "Äijät" with Jone Nikula and been a columnist...

 have hosted Äijät, a TV show about the professions and (in the second season in 2008) hobbies of "real men".

Nikula has written a history book about Finnish metal music

Heavy metal music

Heavy metal is a genre of rock music that developed in the late 1960s and early 1970s, largely in the Midlands of the United Kingdom and the United States...

 history, Rauta-aika ("Iron Age"), and worked as the tour manager of Finnish glam rock

Glam rock

Glam rock is a style of rock and pop music that developed in the UK in the early 1970s, which was performed by singers and musicians who wore outrageous clothes, makeup and hairstyles, particularly platform-soled boots and glitter...

 band Hanoi Rocks

Hanoi Rocks

Hanoi Rocks was a Finnish rock band formed in 1979, whose most successful period came in the early 1980s. The band broke up in 1985 after the death of their drummer, Nicholas "Razzle" Dingley...

. Starting early 2007, he has been one of the early evening hosts on Nelonen Media's rock music

Rock music

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...

 radio station, Radio Rock

Radio Rock

Radio Rock is a Finnish rock music radio station, owned by Nelonen Media, a part of the media group Sanoma.Radio Rock's broadcasting began on January 1, 2007, at 0.00, with the official spoken programs beginning on January 15, 2007. The first song that the station played was Metallica - Master of...

. He is also the chief editor of Ovi magazine.

Nikula is a Senior Lieutenant

Lieutenant

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 (Finnish military rank between Lieutenant and Captain) in reserve

Military reserve

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 in the Finnish Defence Forces

Finnish Defence Forces

The Finnish Defence Forces are responsible for the defence of Finland. It is a cadre army of 15,000, of which 8,900 are professional soldiers , extended with conscripts and reservists such that the standard readiness strength is 34,700 people in uniform...

. His father is former Chancellor of Justice of Finland

Chancellor of Justice of Finland

The Chancellor of Justice of Finland is a Finnish government official who supervises authorities' compliance with the law and advances legal protection of Finnish citizens...

 Paavo Nikula

Paavo Nikula

Paavo Nikula is a former Chancellor of Justice of Finland and a former Member of the Parliament of Finland. He served as the justice minister from 1978-1979. He announced his resignation as Chancellor of Justice on 26 April, 2007, effective at the end of June...

, and his mother is art historian Riitta Nikula

Riitta Nikula

Riitta Nikula is a Finnish art historian, author and professor emeritus in art and architecture history at the University of Helsinki. She obtained her PhD from the University of Helsinki in 1981 with a study of the architecture of the Töölö region of Helsinki. She was Professor of Art History at...

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He was a competitor in the first season of the Finnish version of Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars

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, called Tanssii tähtien kanssa in 2006, finishing third. In April, 2010, it was announced that Nikula will be one of the judges in the fifth season of Tanssii tähtien kanssa.