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Nightwish Ghost Love Score with Tarja Turunen


Tarja Turunen
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 für Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer, 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 quickly achieved critical and commercial popularity. Their symphonic metal style, soon dubbed "opera metal", inspired many other metal bands and performers. MORE



NIGHTWISH - Amaranth (OFFICIAL MUSIC VIDEO) with Annette Olzon


Annette Olzon

Olzon was raised in a musical family and has been singing since childhood.[2] Her mother also forced her to play the oboe for 8 years. She toured with her mother's band and sang with them on some occasions. Later, she started to take part in various talent shows and received laudable recognition.[2] The first band she joined at seventeen years of age (Take Cover) was a cover band. However, it was short-lived as she took part in several bands and projects. At twenty-one, she played the leading role in the rock opera/musical "Gränsland" in Helsingborg. After that she got into the Balettakademien in Gothenburg. She sang in choirs, did studio work for various projects and occasionally performed as a wedding singer. Olzon also sang a duet with Michael Bormann (ex-Jaded Heart singer) on his album Conspiracy.

In her earlier days, Olzon took singing lessons at the Copenhagen Music Conservatorie, in Helsingør, Denmark, with a private teacher. Nowadays, she takes lessons from a private teacher at the Malmö Music University when needed.[2]

Before singing, Olzon has worked in a factory, in a hamburger restaurant, as a waitress, as a veterinarian assistant, in a number of offices and as a hair dresser.[3] She has also studied musical artist education, psychology, project management and leadership and organization.[3] MORE



Nightwish with Floor Jansen - Romanticide




Floor Jansen

Floor Jansen (pronounced [ˈfloːr ˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer, songwriter, and vocal coach. She is currently the lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

Jansen first became known as a member of symphonic metal band After Forever, standing as their lead vocalist from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward.

A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, she is a member of his progressive metal supergroup Star One, and sang in the Ayreon albums Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer, 01011001, and The Source, as well as the live album Ayreon Universe – The Best of Ayreon Live. She also sang lead vocals in several songs of the MaYan album Quarterpast and in Avalon's Angels of the Apocalypse. She is the older sister of fellow singer Irene Jansen, who also worked with Ayreon.

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Jansen can sing from classical to belting and raspy vocals like screaming and death growls.[23][24][25] She is a soprano.[26][27][28][29]

Jansen started studying music at the Dutch Rock Academy in 1999, entering the Conservatorium Tilburg three years later. She studied musical theatre and a year of opera.[23][24] After After Forever split up she started teaching performing in her own course called Wanna be a Star?!

She used to play the guitar, piano and flute and has completed several years of music studies.[30][31] MORE
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The Tarja Turunen fronted iteration of Finnish band Nightwish was one of the pioneering metal groups who were fronted by a woman with towering vocal abilities, and still in my opinion remains the standard by which such bands are judged. And the fact they became a metal band in the first place was directly because of the strength of Tarja's voice. According to Wikipedia...

At Christmas break 1996 her former classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited her to join his new acoustic mood music project. She immediately agreed. At the first recording session it became apparent, that due to her classical singing lessons, Turunens voice had become much more powerful than Holopainen had in mind from their school days. At the following band practices Emppu Vuorinen used an electric guitar instead of the acoustic guitar because he felt that it better fitted to her voice. Holopainen finally decided to form Nightwish as a metal band. He later on explained, that the band mates bit by bit realised, that Turunen's voice had become too dramatic for acoustic mood music, so they came to the conclusion, that the music had to be massive too.[4] Thus Turunen as a founding member was at the same time influential on the musical style of Nightwish.[5]MORE


She learned the piano while young, but it was her astonishing vocal ability that commanded everyone's attention and she immediately entered extensive training for it. Said voice is classified as a lyric soprano which is
a type of operatic soprano that has a warm quality with a bright, full timbre which can be heard over an orchestra. ...Lyric sopranos have a range from approximately middle C (C4) to "high D" (D6).[1] There is a tendency to divide lyric sopranos into two groups, light & full.[2]MORE



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