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Tarja Turunen Profile |
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Birth Date: August 17, 1977
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Birth Place: Kitee, Finland
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Birth Name: Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen
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Height: 5'5"
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Biography |
Tarja Turunen is a Finnish singer. She is best known as
the former lead singer of symphonic metal band Nightwish,
which she grew to fame with after joining in 1996. She now
devotes her time to her solo career, after being expelled
from the band in October 2005. She married an Argentine
businessman, Marcelo Cabuli, in early 2003.
Turunen began to study music at age six, and moved to the
city of Kuopio at 18 to study at the Sibelius Academy. She
became a founding member of Nightwish in 1996 when her
classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited her to join his new
musical project. That year Turunen also performed with the
Savonlinna Opera Festival. However, she did not become
internationally famous until the release of Nightwish's
successful follow-up album, Oceanborn, in 1998.
Turunen sang solo in Waltari's rock-themed 1999 ballet
Evankeliumi (also known as Evangelicum) in several sold-out
performances at the Finnish National Opera. She continued to
tour and record with Nightwish through 2000 and 2001, after
which she enrolled in the Music University in Karlsruhe,
Germany. While there, she recorded vocals for Nightwish's
2002 album Century Child and for Beto Vázquez Infinity.
In 2002, Turunen toured South America, performing in the
classical Lied concert Noche Escandinava (Scandinavian
Night), again to sold-out houses. Following this and an
exhausting world tour in support of Century Child, Nightwish
took a hiatus and Turunen returned to Karlsruhe.
Finnish President Tarja Halonen and her husband invited
Turunen to the President's Palace in Helsinki in December
2003 for the Finnish Independence Day Party, Finland's
biggest social event, where the viewers of Finnish
television station Yle named her the most impressively
dressed lady, among honors given by several newspapers and
magazines.
After the hiatus, Turunen rejoined Nightwish for the album
Once and supporting world tour throughout 2004-2005, and
embarked on a second Noche Escandinava tour in the spring of
2004. For Christmas 2004, she released the single Yhden
Enkelin Unelma (One Angel's Dream), which sold gold in her
native country, Finland. For the spring of 2005, she
prepared a collaboration with Germany's Martin Kesici, the
duet 'Leaving You for Me', also accompanied by a video. On
October 21, 2005, Turunen was asked to leave Nightwish in an
open letter by the other members of Nightwish, over a
dispute that involved "a changed attitude" and increased
financial interest. She responded through another open
letter, which was posted on her website in both Finnish and
English (although the letter can no longer be found on her
website, it is available on a fan page). In February 2006,
Tarja's husband Marcelo posted a message to her website
addressing the situation, and asked for anyone who had
questions pertaining to the issues between Tarja and the
rest of the band to email him. Marcelo then posted a lengthy
reply to many of the questions he had received in June 2006.
In December 2005, she performed several Christmas concerts
in Finland, Germany, Spain and Romania. 2006 was not a break
year for Turunen, who has recorded a Christmas album and
vocals for her brother, Timo Turunen's debut album. She will
also be making an appearance at the Savonlinna Opera
Festival.
Tarja's first solo album, 'My Winter Storm', is planned for
release in 2007. Tarja also sings on track "In The Picture"
on Nuclear Blast Allstars' album Into The Light, 2007 |
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Other
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Lead singer of the Finnish symphonic metal band, Nightwish.
[1996-2005]
Her favorite director is Ridley Scott
Her favorite actor is Russell Crowe.
Her favorite album is "The Gladiator" soundtrack.
Her favorite author is Mika Waltari.
Her favorite drink is dry, gentle red wine.
Her favorite food is chicken.
Her favorite movie is "The Gladiator".
Her favorite season is spring.
Her favorite song is "Von Ewiger Liebe" by Brahms. |
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Nightwish without Tarja is very bad(х-е-р-н ;-я)!!!