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Tarja TurunenTarja Turunen (born August 17, 1977, in Kitee, Finland) is the lead singer in the Finnish power metal band Nightwish. Turunen is one of the most popular singers from the genre in Finland and throughout Europe, as well as an accomplished classical and opera singer. Biography 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 1997 when her classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited her to join his new acoustic 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 followup 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 Argentinean bassist Beto Vazquez's internationally successful album 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 tour, and embarked on a second Noche Escandinava tour. External links Turunen, Tarja Turunen, Tarja Turunen, Tarja Turunen, Tarja
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