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Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli was born in Puhos, Finland on August 17th, 1977; she has one older brother (Timo) and one younger brother (Toni). Her talent for music was first noticed when, at 3 years old, she sang "Enkeli taivaan" (the Finnish version of "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come") in the Kitee church hall. She started taking vocal lessons, and joined the church choir. At 6 years old, she started learning to play piano. At comprehensive school, Turunen performed as a singer for several projects. Her first piano teacher, Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, "Tarja was in a school that had some very musical people. Even then she got to perform a lot. I think she sang in every school function there was." Her music teacher Plamen Dimov, later explained that "If you gave Tarja just one note, she immediately got it. With the others, you'd have to practice three, four, five times". At school she had a tough time, some girls bullied her because they envied her musicality and vocal talent. To solve the problem, Dimov would organize projects outside school. At 15 years old, Turunen had her first major appearance as a soloist at a church concert in front of one thousand listeners. In 1993, she attended the Senior Secondary School of Art and Music in Savonlinna. For several years Turunen performed various songs, including soul music by Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin. Later she listened to songs from classical crossover artist Sarah Brightman, especially the song "The Phantom of the Opera", and decided to focus on that genre of music. At 18 years old, she moved to Kuopio to study at the renowned Finnish music conservatory, Sibelius Academy. In December 1996, former classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited Turunen to join his new acoustic mood project and she agreed. At the recording session for their first demo, Holopainen discovered that due to her classical singing lessons ,Turunen's voice had become much more powerful than he remembered from their school days. At following practices, Erno 'Emppu' Vuorinen used an electric guitar instead of acoustic because he felt that it better accompanied her voice. Holopainen later explained that the band members had gradually realized that Turunen's voice had become too dramatic for acoustic music, and eventually came to the conclusion that the music had to be massive too. Holopainen decided to form Nightwish as a metal band, and Erno 'Emppu' Vuorinen and Tarja Turunen became Nightwish's fellow Founding Members. The rest is history.- Composer
- Music Department
- Actor
Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee, Finland and is the youngest in his family. His musicality and skill in text expression showed early in school, especially when he took piano lessons at age seven and studied jazz and classical music styles for over 10 years at a music college. Holopainen joined his first bands in 1993. He played in several bands, including recording keyboards for three albums with black metal band Darkwoods My Betrothed and playing with Dismal Silence, Nattvindens Gråt and Sethian. In July 1996, Holopainen began thinking of starting a band of his own, for which he would write the music and play keyboards. This was the birth of Nightwish, around a camp fire. He asked Emppu Vuorinen (guitar) and classmate Tarja Turunen (vocals) to join what was then an acoustic project. After hearing Turunen's strong voice, and because of the metal influences of Vuorinen and drummer Jukka Nevalainen, Tuomas decided to turn Nightwish into a metal act. He and Nightwish didn't break through until they released their second album, Oceanborn. During the Century Child era, Holopainen decided to make music changes and added orchestral music to his work, from Century Child, Once and Dark Passion Play. Once became the ultimate breakthrough in the USA. In 2005, the lead singer, Tarja Turunen was fired after the last concert at the Hartwell Arena in Finland by a letter written by Tuomas and signed by the band. In 2006, Holopainen went through a dark period filled with anxiety and depression, made worse by rumors about himself and Nightwish in the tabloids every day. These events also inspired him in the writing of Dark Passion Play, Nightwish's latest album, which may be considered their darkest album yet. In 2007, the new vocalist, Anette Olzon was announced. In the late August in 2007, Dark Passion Play was released, which makes Nightwish's most successful album yet.- Actress
- Writer
- Music Department
Miitta Sorvali was born on 10 February 1956 in Kitee, Finland. She is an actress and writer, known for Raid (2003), Aurora (2019) and Puhtaat valkeat lakanat (1993).- Actor
- Music Department
- Camera and Electrical Department
Emppu Vuorinen was born on 24 June 1978 in Kitee, Finland. He is an actor, known for The Book of Fate (2003), Imaginaerum (2012) and Uusi päivä (2010).- Location Management
- Actor
- Art Department
Onni Timonen was born on 29 June 1911 in Kitee, Finland. He was an actor, known for Totuus on armoton (1963), Kuisma ja Helinä (1951) and Kanavan laidalla (1949). He was married to Sirkka Joutsela. He died on 20 December 1976.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Olli Halonen was born on 11 April 1975 in Kitee, Finland. He is an actor, known for Restless (2000), FC Venus (2005) and Matti: Hell Is for Heroes (2006).- Oona Sormunen was born on 2 August 1989 in Kitee, Finland.
- Jyrki Mäntylä was born on 12 July 1936 in Kitee, Finland. Jyrki is a writer, known for Sipulit (1963).
- Toni Kohonen was born on 13 January 1976 in Kitee, Finland.