Wednesday, February 26, 2020

Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland...

[I'll take Finland all day long. Finland: Jean Sibelius. His New Year's Eve 1939 broadcast. Sad, prescient of the saddest year of the 20th c]


Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer-songwriter. She is a lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves.[1]

Turunen studied singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule fΓΌr Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer, ...

[how do i do this i don't know]

...and the former lead vocalist of the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, which she founded with Tuomas Holopainen and Emppu Vuorinen in 1996. Their combination of hard and fast guitar riffs with Turunen's dramatic, "operatic" lead vocals...

[genius i guess]

...quickly achieved critical and commercial popularity. Their symphonic metal style, soon dubbed "opera metal", inspired many other metal bands and performers.

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In September 2015, Tarja Turunen released her first classical studio album, Ave Maria – En Plein Air.
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In December 1996, former classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited Turunen to join his new acoustic mood music project, and she immediately agreed. At the recording session for the first demo Holopainen discovered that due to her classical singing lessons, Turunen's voice had become much more powerful than he recalled from their school days. At the following band practices, Emppu Vuorinen used an electric guitar instead of an acoustic guitar because he felt that it gave a better accompaniment to her voice.[10] Holopainen later explained that the band members had gradually realised that Turunen's voice had become too dramatic for acoustic mood music and eventually came to the conclusion that the music had to be massive too. Hence Holopainen decided to form Nightwish as a metal band.[11]
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That same year, Turunen performed at the Savonlinna Opera Festival for the first time, singing songs from Wagner and Verdi.[16]

[I did graduate from Northern Cambria High School, one of the best college preparatory schools in the Barnesboro-Spangler SMSA.]

Turunen's dramatic voice.[18] In addition...Turunen sang solo in Waltari's rock-themed ballet Evankeliumi (also known as Evangelicum) in several sold-out performances at the Finnish National Opera.[19] 
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In 2002, Turunen toured South America, performing in the classical Lied concert Noche Escandinava (Scandinavian Night) to sold-out house...

[Okay, it goes on and on and on...]

...Turunen began serious classical vocal training at 17.

As a classical singer, Turunen sings with classical vocal technique. 

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