Tarmo Urb (born September 9, 1952 in Tartu) is an Estonian songwriter, singer, actor and healer. He studied at Tartu 8th Secondary School and sang in the Tartu Boy's Choir. He continued his studies in 1970 at the Tartu State University majoring in English philology and in 1976 at the Tallinn State Conservatory of Performing Arts. He spent five years in various places of detention and in a psychoneurological hospital until 1987 for several attempts to cross the border and "setting a bad example ...