Winter metal music tales

by Petar PLAMENOV

26 January (Thursday), 2012
Tarja TURUNEN
Start: 20:00,
Enrtance: 40/50BGN
Armeetz Arena
Address:
Sofia, 1 Assen Yordanov bld

Tarja Turunen born August 17, 1977, is a Finnish soprano, best known as the former lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish, which she founded along with Emppu Vuorinen and Tuomas Holopainen in 1996.

She started with piano lessons in age of 6 and later, with 15 years old, Tarja had the very first singing lesson. Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin weren't influences to Tarja but they were very important in her life when she started to sing more. The classical singing lessons only started when she was 17. With 18 years old, Tarja got in the Music Academy in Finland, and at the same time, Nightwish was born. With Tarja, Nightwish release the following albums: "Angel Fall First" - April 1997, "Oceanborn" - November 1998, "Wishmaster" - May 2000, DVD and VHS "From Wishes To Eternity" - April 2001, "Over The Hills And Far Away" - 2001, "Century Child" - May 2002, DVD "End Of Innocence" - October 2003, "Once" - 2004 and "Highest Hopes" - 2005. In 2002 she finished her educations in Germany. In may 2003 Tarja announced that she had secretly gotten married a few months earlier.




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.

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 (the letter can no longer be found on her website, but 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.


After severing ties with the band in October 2005, Tarja Turunen is now devoting her time to her solo career under the stage name of Tarja. She is married to Argentine businessman Marcelo Cabuli. Tarja has also appeared in various Finnish television programs, and was a guest judge on "Idols" on 27 March 2007.

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