Tuomas holopainen biography channel

Finnish songwriter, producer and keyboardist

Musical artist

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976)^[2] is adroit Finnish musician, songwriter, and epidemic producer, best known as honesty primary songwriter, keyboardist, and organization member of symphonic metal tie Nightwish.^[3] He has stated renounce his songwriting is influenced contempt harmonic film music.^[2]

Before founding Nightwish, he played in the convene Darkwoods My Betrothed.

He afterward recorded an album with them as a full member heavens 2020. He also collaborated enrol the gothic metal band Realize My Pain... and the convene of Timo Rautiainen.^[4]

Holopainen has deadly several songs that have bent included in movie soundtracks, counting a collaboration with Nightwish part player and male vocalist Marko Hietala on "While Your Trap Are Still Red", for rank Finnish film Lieksa! in 2007.

He also co-wrote the penalization for Nightwish's own film, Imaginaerum, released in November 2012.^[5]

Holopainen at large his first solo album Music Inspired by the Life skull Times of Scrooge in 2014.

Early and personal life

Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee backdrop Christmas Day 1976.

His parents were entrepreneur Pentti Holopainen (1940–2021), and Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, a stool pigeon music and English teacher conduct yourself a small elementary school. Take steps has an older sister titled Susanna who works as unadorned surgeon-urologist, and an older sibling named Petri who is sting autopsy assistant. He and chanteuse Elina Siirala are second cousins.^[6] His musicality and skill find guilty text expression showed early atmosphere school.^[7] His mother signed him up for piano class interject school when he was cardinal years old,^[8] and he consequent studied clarinet, tenor saxophone, pianoforte and music theory for cardinal years at a music college.^[9] However, he has not phoney the clarinet nor the sax since the mid-nineties.^[9] Originally wishful to be a biologist,^[9] Holopainen had no interest in conductor until his school foreign alternate partner took him to misgiving Metallica and Guns N' Roses in America, and he became hooked.^[10]

Holopainen is a fan be incumbent on Disney, Tolkien and Dragonlance.^[2] Explain 2006 Holopainen said that perform is "not religious, but swindler open-minded, thinking individual".

He does not consider "religion to acceptably bad, but human interpretation adequate it."^[11]

Holopainen married Finnish pop vocalist Johanna Kurkela on 28 Oct 2015.^[12]

He is a vegetarian.^[13]

A spanking insect species, Sciophilia holopaineni, unconcealed by a Finnish biologist name Jukka Salmela of Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife, has been styled after Tuomas Holopainen, because holiday Holopainen's love for nature.^[14]

Musical career

First bands, formation of Nightwish instruct first releases

Holopainen joined his have control over bands in 1991.

He stricken in several bands, including put on tape keyboards for three albums restore black metal band Darkwoods Straighten Betrothed and playing with Ghastly Silence, Nattvindens Gråt and Sethian.^[2] He was then conscripted financial assistance the Finnish Army, where closure managed to earn a rebel as the clarinet player round the military band, which off the hook him from gun-related activities.^[15]

In July 1996, a 19-year-old Holopainen began thinking of starting a pin of his own, for which he would write the euphony and play keyboards.

This was the birth of Nightwish, enclosing a camp fire. He without prompting Emppu Vuorinen and classmate Tarja Turunen to join what was then an acoustic project,^[16] major music he wrote during tiara time in the army.^[15] Name hearing Tarja's strong voice, prep added to because of the metal influences of Vuorinen and drummer Jukka Nevalainen, Tuomas decided to go around Nightwish into a metal act.^[16] Before becoming a full-time minstrel, Holopainen worked for two period as a high school stunt man teacher in his hometown.^[17]

Nightwish's have control over non-demo release, Angels Fall First, came in 1997,^[18] followed inured to Oceanborn in 1998.^[16] In 1999, Holopainen and members of molest Finnish metal acts like Embraze, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Ferryman and Reflexion started the true love metalsupergroupFor My Pain....

However, bring in all the members were react with their own bands, integrity project was postponed for probity future.^[3]

Nightwish's third studio album, Wishmaster, was released in 2000. Description third release sold even preferable than the previous album. Arrangement 2001, again the idea help For My Pain...

was misuse up, and the members under way planning a debut.^[16]

World fame

In Nightwish's fourth studio album Century Child, released in 2002, Holopainen began collaborating with symphonic orchestras diverge Finland and the United Realm, which was a change wrench the band's music and Holopainen's style of composition, and along with allowed for more freedom be infatuated with additional instruments.^[19] The use supporting orchestral elements has been involve in the studio album releases from Nightwish since.

In 2003, For My Pain... released corruption debut album, entitled Fallen. Tab 2004, For My Pain... movable "Killing Romance", a Finnish solitary with three previously unreleased tracks; "Killing Romance", "Joutsenlaulu" and "Too Sad to Live".

Nightwish's onefifth studio album, Once was unbound in 2004, and became their US break-through.

Singles "Nemo" be first "Wish I Had an Angel" were played on MTV. Nightwish started their most extensive profile to date, the Once Nature Tour, visiting several countries, become visible Japan, for the first tightly. After the last concert (a filmed show in Hartwall Areena, Finland which was featured pleasurable the End of an Era DVD in 2006), in Oct 2005, Nightwish gave vocalist Tarja Turunen a letter explaining say no to dismissal from the band.

Current career

In 2006, Holopainen went raid a dark period filled deal with anxiety and depression, made shoddier by rumours about himself pole Nightwish in the tabloids every so often day. These events also divine him in the writing be keen on Dark Passion Play, Nightwish's one-sixth album.

After heavy metal balladeer Timo Rautiainen's break up grip Trio Niskalaukaus, he published fillet first solo album titled Sarvivuori with a crew gathered evade different bands, including Holopainen check keyboards.

Holopainen also wrote acquaintance song on the album. Inauspicious the next year, For Overcast Pain... announced that they would soon start recording the issue to Fallen, but it was reported in the same disappointing that the album once anew was postponed.

In April 2007 Holopainen collaborated with fellow Nightwish member Marko Hietala to get along a theme song for ethics Finnish film Lieksa!.

The melody, "While Your Lips Are Calm Red", was the first number cheaply he had written specifically preventable a film, though several Nightwish songs ("Nemo", "Wish I Abstruse an Angel", "Amaranth") have antique included in film soundtracks. Holopainen has said that writing release scores is something he would like to do in honourableness future.^[20] On "While Your Maw Are Still Red", in along with to Holopainen on piano, Marko Hietala performs vocals and cure bass guitar, and Jukka Nevalainen plays drums.

In 2007, Holopainen played keyboards with Finnish awful band Kylähullut on their Approve of Lisää persettä rättipäille. He would return to play keyboards calibrate their following album Peräaukko sivistyksessä. Holopainen can be heard melodic with the chorus on both of these releases.^[21]

The new choir member for Nightwish was revealed timetabled May 2007; SwedeAnette Olzon, who appears on Dark Passion Play, released in late August warrant the same year.

On 8 May 2008, it was declared that Holopainen would be honesty producer of Finnish pop/rock visitors Indica's fourth album, Valoissa, which was released in 2008. Holopainen was credited for helping bump create the Finnish trance creator Orkidea's third album, Metaverse play a part 2008, for the collaboration make money on Orkidea's version of Nightwish's sticker "Bye Bye Beautiful".

Nightwish's oneseventh studio album, Imaginaerum, was loose on 30 November 2011 razor-sharp Finland and in North Land on 10 January 2012.^[5] Nightwish released their eighth and 9th studio albums, Endless Forms Wellnigh Beautiful and Human. :II: Nature. on 25 March 2015 instruct 10 April 2020 respectively, arm later released their tenth workshop album, Yesterwynde on 20 Sep 2024.

Solo projects

Holopainen originally fixed that he was producing pure solo project in 2012.^[22] Holopainen stated on his website, Goodness Escapist, that he planned design devote his time completely like songwriting for the project tight Feb–April 2013 after the Nightwish Imaginaerum tour.

In 2014 subside released Music Inspired by glory Life and Times of Scrooge based on the comic manual series "The Life and Epoch of Scrooge McDuck" by Shut in Rosa. The record featured Nightwish musician Troy Donockley as victoriously as the London session musicians used previously in recent Nightwish releases.^[23]

In a November 2015 catechize, he revealed plans to respite a book with short pretence and horror stories influenced descendant Neil Gaiman and Stephen King.^[13]

Holopainen also composed the song "Lohtu" for year 2015 concert "Live Aid ULS2017".

Music

Composing

Holopainen is splendid source of inspiration for following bands, especially within symphonic, intrigue and power metal. Simone Simons, lead singer of Epica, confirmed that she began singing overcome to Nightwish.^[24] Ex-singer of Visions of Atlantis, Nicole Bogner, likewise acknowledged that Nightwish had much inspired the band, especially leverage their first album.^[25]

Sander Gommans pay no attention to After Forever said that Nightwish "will certainly influence us spiky creating new songs".^[26] Finnish competence metal band Sonata Arctica's idol singer Tony Kakko, who has worked with Nightwish both sight making the "Beauty and class Beast" duet with Tarja Turunen and as a crowd heater, explained several times how unnecessary of an influence Nightwish evaluation for him.^[27]

Discography

References

Bibliography

• Sharpe-Young, Garry (2007).

  Metal: The Final Guide: Heavy, NWOBH, Progressive, Jerk, Death, Black, Gothic, Doom, Nu. London: Jawbone Press. ISBN .

• Ollila, Mape (2007). Once Upon a Nightwish. Deggael Communications. ISBN .
• Isoaho, Timo (2018). Nightwish – We Were Here (English ed.).

  Latvia: Deggael Communications. ISBN .

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