Finnish-American singer (born May 15, 1885 in Karstula, Grand Duchy of Finland – died March 5, 1966 in Chicago, Illinois, USA)
In 1910, Siik, his wife Lydia, and their oldest son Martin immigrated to the United States, where he worked as an iron miner first in Negaunee, MI, then in Ironwood, MI. In the 1920s and 1930s, he was a sheet metal worker in Chicago, IL. In 1943, he became a naturalized U.S. citizen. From at least 1946, he worked as a Janitor at St. Therese Hospital in Waukegan, IL.
In his free time, Siik sang in a church choir and in the Liito Men's Choir. In 1921, he is one of two featured singers at the Bessemer Community Council's New Year's party. After he moved to Chicago in 1922, he received formal voice training and continued to perform locally and in Michigan. Between May 1930 and December 1931, he recorded a total of 17 songs at four different recording sessions for Columbia in Chicago. In Chicago, he was a founding member of the Pohjolan Pojat Men's Choir (later the Sibelius Choir), and directed the choir at the Chicago World's Fair in 1933.
