The song has a nice melody, a decent hook and some interesting proggy keyboard noodling courtesy of Tuomas Holopainen that you don’t hear that much anymore in modern Nightwish. His parents were entrepreneur Pentti Holopainen and Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, a former music and English teacher in a small elementary school. She rehearsed like hell for the songs and we spent a lot of time in the studio also with … Release Date November 30, 2011. Tuomas: "We left the full orchestra for the first nine tracks, so that left a lot of space for the instruments and the vocals. [19] On "While Your Lips Are Still Red", in addition to Holopainen on piano, Marco Hietala performs vocals and acoustic bass guitar, and Jukka Nevalainen plays drums. However, he did sing Beauty and the Beast live if the band did not have a sessional singer available, contributed vocals to the track The Carpenter on Angels Fall First and chanting to the track Moondance on Oceanborn as well as vocals on Master Passion Greed (Dark Passion Play), although these songs are never performed live (with the exceptions of The Carpenter, which was performed by Tuomas at the Tavastia Club, Helsinki in 1998, and again during the Decades: World Tour in 2018, but the male vocals are performed by Troy Donockley instead). Nightwish is a symphonic metal band from Kitee, Finland. Backing Vocals By Troy Donockley. Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. His mother signed him up for piano class in school when he was seven years old, and he later studied clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano and music theory for eleven years at a music college. BLABBERMOUTH.NET These events also inspired him in the writing of Dark Passion Play, Nightwish's sixth album. Nightwish's seventh studio album, Imaginaerum, was released on 30 November 2011 in Finland and in North America on 10 January 2012. His musicality and skill in text expression showed early in school. Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee, Finland on Christmas Day (December 25, 1976). For subsequent releases up until the arrival of bassist and male vocalist Marco Hietala, the band has recruited sessional male vocalists, as Holopainen preferred to focus entirely on his keyboards. You can also send an e-mail to blabbermouthinbox(@)gmail.com with pertinent details. [22], In a November 2015 interview, he revealed plans to release a book with short fantasy and horror stories influenced by Neil Gaiman and Stephen King. The record featured Nightwish musician Troy Donockley as well as the London session musicians used previously in recent Nightwish releases. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. With Tarja Turunen, Tuomas Holopainen, Marco Hietala, Emppu Vuorinen. This singer has written many songs about love, life, struggle and everything else that people laugh, nod their head or cry to. Details File Size: 1697KB Duration: 3.500 sec Dimensions: 498x280 Created: 7/9/2020, 8:14:02 PM She sent him tons of letters and even the divorce papers he filed, saying that she already booked the church to marry him! Directed by Antti Jokinen. ... is a world music/electronica band probably best known for that one hit they had in the 90’s with the Native American singing. [23] Ex-singer of Visions of Atlantis, Nicole Bogner, also acknowledged that Nightwish had greatly inspired the band, especially for their first album. Floor, as a singer, she's as versatile as it gets, really, so I didn't have to restrict myself in the songwriting.". A couple of excerpts follow (transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. So the passion for singing her parts and doing this album with us was really there, and still is.". As long as he's having a blast that's all that matters though In 2003, For My Pain... released its debut album, entitled Fallen. We have to find a substitute.' 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. Singles "Nemo" and "Wish I Had an Angel" were played on MTV. At the heart of Nightwish is Tuomas Holopainen. In May 2007 Nightwish announced Anette Olzon as Turunen’s replacement. That was a deliberate decision. Man, I like the part with the fanfaring blower-section. [8] However, he has not played the clarinet nor the saxophone since the mid-nineties. Then they will finally get some time to slow down and think about the future. [9], Holopainen is a fan of Disney, Tolkien and Dragonlance. That's what it says in the album booklet: 'Drums by Jukka Nevalainen.' So, good for us, he had the motivation and the time to be able to join the band and then save the whole project, I could even say. - Metal Shock Finland (World Assault )", Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places), Sleeping Sun (Four Ballads of the Eclipse), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tuomas_Holopainen&oldid=1005208873, Articles with unsourced statements from March 2020, Wikipedia articles with MusicBrainz identifiers, Wikipedia articles with WORLDCATID identifiers, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 6 February 2021, at 14:42. Tuomas: "Of course, it's a personal matter and it's a subjective thing as music and art always is, but personally, I think she truly shines on this album and this is her best effort ever. does not endorse, or guarantee the accuracy of, any user comment. Receiving domestic and worldwide recognition, Tuomas Holopainen … Early the next year, For My Pain... announced that they would soon start recording the successor to Fallen, but it was reported in the same autumn that the album once again was postponed. We rehearsed for about a month with Jukka already, and then he just finally gave up, saying that, 'I can't do this anymore. In 2020 Darkwoods My Betrothed wrote an 8 track album with Tuomas as full member in line-up. To report spam or any abusive, obscene, defamatory, racist, homophobic or threatening comments, or anything that may violate any applicable laws, use the "Report to Facebook" and "Mark as spam" links that appear next to the comments themselves. New guy Troy Donockley is a major player on both of these songs, his uilleann pipes chiming in all over the place. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. You can now watch the chat in two parts below. [3], Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including a collaboration with Nightwish bass player and male vocalist Marco Hietala on "While Your Lips Are Still Red", for the Finnish film Lieksa! Nightwish's fifth studio album, Once was released in 2004, and became their US break-through. He would return to play keyboards on their following album Peräaukko sivistyksessä. Here is how it went: This is Joe Prostredny with Afternoiz and I’m here with Tuomas from Nightwish! 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. And the only person that we could really think of was Kai, because we go back a long way, we know how he's like as a person, he's a good friend, and, of course, a really professional drummer. Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician (but mainly keyboardist), screenwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish.He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music.
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