In 1994, he was crowned the tenth Tango King when he won a Finnish tango competition
Tangomarkkinat. On 8 September 1995 Lehtonen and his father, who was driving the car, hit a
moose in
Sipoo. Lehtonen died in the
Töölö Hospital in Helsinki in the early morning of 9 September 1995. Lehtonen was well known for the way he kept his eyes closed when he was singing. ==References==