Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen (* 25. December 1976 in Kitee, Finland) is the key board player and Hauptsongwriter in the Finnish Symphonic Metal - volume Nightwish.

biography

since its respected Lebensjahr plays Tuomas piano, since its ninth clarinet. After the school it studied these two instruments at a music college. In this time it played in volume the Darkwoods My Betrothed and Nattvindens burr. However it wanted to absolutely create own volume, since it wanted to write and bring in music. This idea was the birth of Nightwish in the summer 1996. At the campfire he asked Emppu Vuorinen and Tarja Turunen whether they wanted to go through in this at that time still purely acoustic project. After he heard the quality of Tarjas of operaful voice, Tuomas, Nightwish decided into a Metalband too „transforms “. Nevertheless those played volume some songs on its debut album Angels case roofridge (1997 appeared) only with acoustic guitar . Also the Songs before at some disk label (under it spin farm, with which the volume finally signed a contract) sent away 3-Track-Demos was purely acoustic.

Already 1998, after the publication of Oceanborn, that 2. Album, became Tuomas for its gifts to write songs famous. Four further albums followed: Wiping master (2000), Over The Hills and far Away (2001), Century Child (2002) and Once (2004). On the last two publications Tuomas changed the style of Nightwish very strongly: It connected Metal to the power with symphonischen orchestras from Finland and England.

The publication of the next Nightwish album is expected for 2007, however with another singer, since the volume separated from Tarja Turunen in October 2005.

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