Taneli Jarva is a
Finnish musician/tattoo artist born in
Oulu,
Northern Finland. He is a professional tattoo artist at Tatuata in Helsinki. Jarva is best known as the
vocalist/bassist in metal heavyweight
Sentenced. He left the group in 1995, because he did not like the melodic direction of the band, and decided to move on to other projects. Ten years later, on Sentenced's last live gig in 2005 in Oulu, Jarva joined his former band mates once more to perform five songs from his time with the band.