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| Tarja Turunen |
I know, most of you won't like or know
the metal band Nightwish but I do and their story is quite
interesting. Even if you don't like symphonic metal. Nightwish was
formed 1996 in Finland. They started with a wongwriter and keyboarder
(Tuomas), a guitarist (Emppu) and a female singer (Tarja).
Originally, Tuomas wanted to write acoustic music but soon he
realized that Tarja's operatic voice was too strong for that type of
music. So he decided to include heavy metal elements and that is how
Jukka (drums) and Sami (bass) joined the band. They were quite
successful but in 2001 they had a very hard time. They had internal
difficulties and Tuomas thought he would have to break up the band.
It was Tony Kakko (singer and songwriter of Sonata Arctica) who made
Tuomas realize that he could not simply do that. After a long talk
between the two of them everything got better. Sami left and Marco
played the bass instead. In 2004 the 5th album “Once” lead to
unknown success. After this album, however, they had a terrible
crisis. The male band members didn't get along with Tarja anymore and
threw her out of the band through publishing an open letter to her
and all the fans. Needless to say, Tarja was pretty shocked and angry
about that and herself released an open letter as answer. She said
that the way of breaking the news to her was needlessly cruel. Well,
life goes on. Tarja started a solo project and Nightwish started
looking for a new singer.
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| Anette Olzon |
They came up with Anette Olzon, the
ex-singer of the Swedish band Alyson Avenue. This was a very brave
step. Anette didn't have any real metal or opera background. She was
more of a pop singer and due to that had difficulties with songs
written for Tarja's opera voice. She did a great job, however, and in
2007 one of my favorite albums of all times called “Dark Passion
Play” was released. Anette gave the music a new touch and many fans
really liked that. Of course there were haters, there always are. In
2011 they released their second album featuring Anette. It is called
“Imaginaerum” and just as awesome as Dark Passion Play. In 2012,
however, the problems started again. Nightwish announced their
parting with Anette as their paths would no longer match. Later
Anette also announced that she was pregnant with her third child.
Maybe that was the reason for the break-up.
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| Floor Jansen |
As the band was just on
the Imaginaerum World Tour they needed a replacement. They ended up
with Floor Jansen, the Dutch ex-singer of “After Forever”. As
Floor has studied Musical Theater and one year of opera it is easier
for her to reach Tarja's heights. You can definitely hear that she
has more experience with metal but I can't say that I really like it.
I loved Anette's light, friendly voice while Floor sounds too
“wannabe tough” for me. I am sure that she is a great singer and
lengths better than Anette. Still, I am not very enthusiastic.
Yesterday I found some videos in which Tarja, Anette and Floor are
compared. Hear for yourself!
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