Career and personal life of Tarja Turunen

2024 Author: Leah Sherlock | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 05:25

Tarja Turunen became famous primarily for her participation in the metal band Nightwish, in which she successfully soloed for many years. The band's music is classified as different styles, but the guys believe that they play in the style of Symphonic-Power Metal.

However, on October 21, 2005, due to disagreements over the marriage of the vocalist, the band refused to cooperate with Tarja. Actually, the point was that Turunen was torn between Argentina and Finland, so she physically could not keep the creative rhythm set by the group. But the preeminent star of the rock scene didn't fade, but continued to shine for her fans. Many Nightwish fans lost interest in the band after her departure. Well, this is not surprising, because her well-trained operatic voice made their sound special. The article will talk about the personal life of the singer and her work, and will also provide the best photos of Tarja Turunen.

Biography

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Kabuli came into this world on August 17, 1977. The place of her birth was the Finnish village of Puhos, located near Kitee. Maryata's mother was a membercity administration, and dad, Teuvo Turunen, owned a carpentry craft. The family had many children, Tarja had two brothers - the elder Timo and the younger Toni.

The girl's talent was noticed very early, when she, being a three-year-old baby, diligently drew out the song Enkeli taivaan under the vaults of the temple in Kitee. Tarja Turunen was invited to sing in the church choir, where she received her first vocal lessons, and at the age of six she was already mastering the piano with might and main.

From the memoirs of an old music teacher Plamen Dimov, it becomes clear that he greatly appreciated the future rock star and saw that the girl had great creative potential. This was manifested in the fact that Tarja Turunen literally grasped everything on the fly, while the rest of the students had to repeatedly rehearse the material to get the perfect performance.

Vocal experience

For quite a long time, Tarja was looking for her place in music, performing songs by Whitney Houston and various representatives of the soul genre, but after listening to the famous theme from The Phantom of The Opera performed by Sarah Brightman, the girl firmly decided to join the opera. And after graduating from school, Turunen went to Kuopia and entered the Sibelius Conservatory.

Working with Nightwish

It so happened that Tarja Turunen's creatively gifted classmate Tuomas Hoopainen decided to assemble his own rock band, and one that had never been seen before. The musicians were selected, but the vocalist position was still vacant.

And then Tuomas like lightning in the headhit: “What if heavy music is combined with operatic singing?” He was delighted with such an idea, so he called his old friend Tarja.

At that time, the girl was just getting an education in the class of academic vocals, so without thinking twice, she agreed. The unusual group quickly won world love, as each of the musicians turned out to be unique in his own way.

Everything went like clockwork, but in 2003 Tarja decided it was time to start a family and gave her heart and hand to the Argentine businessman Marcelo Cabuli. In May of the same year, she told her colleagues about the major changes in her life.

Then followed two years of intense creative life, during which Tarja (due to family circumstances) missed important rehearsals and disrupted more than one concert. Despite the fact that the group filmed several clips and recorded the Once album, the guys' patience still snapped. Therefore, at the end of the world tour in honor of the release of the new disc, Tarja Turunen received an official letter from her colleagues, which said that she was fired.

Solo career

The girl was not particularly upset, having lost the opportunity to sing in everyone's favorite group. After all, there was a caring husband nearby, and there was also the opportunity to create independently, at your own discretion. So after leaving Nightwish, she moved to sunny Argentina.

In November 2005, the singer gave an official interview in which she spoke about her creative life over the past year and the reasons that led to her dismissal. The publication exists in Russian in the newspaperRockcor January-February 2006. Since then, Tarja Turunen has been involved in many projects and creates her own compositions to this day. Meanwhile, her "replacements" in Nightwish do not stay long, as none of them can replace the former vocalist, loved by the fans.

Albums

Tarja Turunen does not sit idly by and continues to work actively. Here are the results of her labors:

1. Henkäys ikuisuudesta (Christmas album) - 2006;
2. My Winter Storm - 2007;
3. The Seer – 2008;
4. What Lies Beneath – 2010;
5. Colors in the Dark – 2013;
6. Left in the Dark – 2014;
7. Ave Maria - En Plein Air (classic album) - 2015;
8. The Shadow Self – 2016;
9. Brightest Void – 2016.

In August 2012, Tarja Turunen and Marcelo Kabuli became happy parents, which the singer officially announced in December of the same year. The girl was given a beautiful long name Naomi Erica Alexia Kabuli Turunen. Now Tarja is not only a well-known rock singer, but also just a happy mother.