Marko Vilhelm Vuoriheimo (born 26 June 1978 in Helsinki),[2] professionally known as Signmark, is a deaf Finnish hip hop recording artist.
[3] Born into a signing family, Vuoriheimo feels that society should not treat the deaf as disabled people but as a linguistic minority with their own culture and history.
[1] The album had eight songs on it, many of which dealt with the history, culture and rights of the Finnish signing community.
Signmark was one of the artists competing in Finland's national qualifications to represent it in the 2009 Eurovision Song Contest.
[6] Signmark won his qualifying round on 23 January 2009, with Speakerbox, which he performed with Osmo Ikonen, as he received 46.5% of the votes.