Tarja Turunen

Quick Facts

Full Name	Tarja Turunen
Occupation	Metal Singer
Date Of Birth	Aug 17, 1977(1977-08-17)
Age	47
Birthplace	Kitee
Country	Finland
Birth City	North Karelia
Horoscope	Leo

Tarja Turunen Biography

Tarja Turunen is one of the most popular and richest Metal Singer who was born on August 17, 1977 in Kitee, North Karelia, Finland. A former singer from the Finnish metal band symphonic Nightwish who was dismissed from her band and decided to pursue her own career.

Fans of Nightwish have been divided on whether they think she or Nightwish fans have been bitterly divided over whether she or Anette Olzon, her replacement, was a better singer. the replacement was a better performer.

At comprehensive school, Turunen performed as a singer for several projects. Her first piano teacher Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, “Tarja was in a school that had some very musical people. Even then she got to perform a lot. I think she sang in every school function there was.” Her music teacher, Plamen Dimov, later explained that, “If you gave Tarja just one note, she immediately got it. With the others, you’d have to practice three, four, five times”. At school she had a tough time, since some girls bullied her because they envied her voice. To solve that problem, Dimov organized projects outside school. At fifteen, Turunen had her first major appearance as a soloist at a church concert in front of a thousand listeners. In 1993 she attended the Senior Secondary School of Art and Music in Savonlinna.

In December 1996, former classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited Turunen to join his new acoustic mood music project, and she immediately agreed. At the recording session for the first demo Holopainen discovered that due to her classical singing lessons, Turunen’s voice had become much more powerful than he recalled from their school days. At the following band practices, Emppu Vuorinen used an electric guitar instead of an acoustic guitar because he felt that it gave a better accompaniment to her voice. Holopainen later explained that the band members had gradually realised that Turunen’s voice had become too dramatic for acoustic mood music and eventually came to the conclusion that the music had to be massive too. Hence Holopainen decided to form Nightwish as a metal band.

She was married to Marcelo Cabuli, an Argentine businessman who later became her manager. Together , they have a daughter called Naomi Eerika Alexia.

Tarja Turunen Net Worth

Tarja Turunen is one of the richest Metal Singer from Finland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Tarja Turunen 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

She was bullied in school by other girls who were jealous of her singing voice. She took to sing for refuge and was aided by formal education and formal training, she developed a distinctive voice.

When the personalities of the group were at odds, she was forced to leave Nightwish in a scandal that was closely monitored by news media. In 2005, she launched one of the most prestigious solo careers.

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer-songwriter. She is a lyric soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Who is Tarja Turunen Dating?

According to our records, Tarja Turunen married to Marcelo Cabuli. As of December 1, 2023, Tarja Turunen’s is not dating anyone.

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Due to her commitment to the band, Turunen was not able to concentrate sufficiently on her schoolwork and her academic studies were interrupted. In 1998, Nightwish published their second album, Oceanborn. This album lacked the earlier elements of folk and ambient music, and instead focused on fast, melodic keyboard and guitar lines and Turunen’s dramatic voice. In addition to the Oceanborn Europe Tour (1999), Turunen sang solo in Waltari’s rock-themed ballet Evankeliumi (also known as Evangelicum) in several sold-out performances at the Finnish National Opera. In 2000 and 2001, Nightwish recorded Wishmaster and Over the Hills and Far Away and toured Europe and South America (the Wishmaster World Tour). During the Wishmaster World Tour, Turunen met Argentine businessman Marcelo Cabuli whom she married in 2003.

Facts & Trivia

Tarja Ranked on the list of most popular Metal Singer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Finland. Tarja Turunen celebrates birthday on August 17 of every year.

A challenge of a different kind was the cover version of Gary Moore’s “Over the Hills and Far Away” (2001), as it required a deeper voice, far below the vocal range of an average soprano. In an interview with Breakout magazine, she reported that in the studio, the band members were shaken by a paroxysm of laughter as she tried to warm up for the vocal lines. As a side benefit of her efforts, Turunen gradually expanded her vocal range considerably into the lower range, which manifested even more on the following albums.

How old is Tarja Turunen?

44 years (August 17, 1977)

Where is Tarja Turunen from?

Kitee, Finland

Will Tarja return to Nightwish?

It would be very hypothetically possible. It would be unlikely to happen.” As the original singer of Nightwish, Tarja Turunen first rose to international prominence through her work on Nightwish’s first five studio albums, which remain some of the band’s most beloved works by a large portion of its fanbase.

Who replaced Tarja Turunen?

The song was repeatedly played in concerts until vocalist Tarja Turunen was replaced with Anette Olzon , whereupon the band announced that they would never play the song live again. Century Child was certified gold two hours after its release, and platinum two weeks afterwards.

What nationality is Tarja?

Finnish