Before becoming a full-time musician, Holopainen worked for two years as a high school stand-in teacher in his hometown. After hearing Tarja's strong voice, and because of the metal influences of Vuorinen and drummer Jukka Nevalainen, Tuomas decided to turn Nightwish into a metal act. He asked Erno "Emppu" Vuorinen (lead guitar) and classmate Tarja Turunen (vocals) to join what was then an acoustic project, with music he wrote during his time in the army. This was the birth of Nightwish, around a camp fire. In July 1996, a 19-year-old Holopainen began thinking of starting a band of his own, for which he would write the music and play keyboards. He was then conscripted for the Finnish Army, where he managed to earn a position as the clarinet player of the military band, which spared him from gun-related activities. 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. Holopainen joined his first bands in 1991. Musical career First bands, formation of Nightwish and first releases Ī new insect species, Sciophilia holopaineni, discovered by a Finnish biologist named Jukka Salmela of Metsähallitus Parks & Wildlife, has been named after Tuomas Holopainen, because of Holopainen's love for nature. Holopainen married Finnish pop singer Johanna Kurkela on 28 October 2015. He does not consider "religion to be bad, but human interpretation of it." In 2006 Holopainen said that he is "not religious, but an open-minded, thinking individual". Holopainen is a fan of Disney, Tolkien and Dragonlance. Originally aspiring to be a biologist, Holopainen had no interest in metal until his school foreign exchange partner took him to see Metallica and Guns N' Roses in America, and he became hooked. However, he has not played the clarinet nor the saxophone since the mid-nineties. 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 twelve years at a music college. His musicality and skill in text expression showed early in school. He and singer Elina Siirala are second cousins. He has an older sister named Susanna who works as a surgeon-urologist, and an older brother named Petri who is an autopsy assistant. His parents were entrepreneur Pentti Holopainen (28 December, 1940 - 4 February, 2021), and Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, a former music and English teacher in a small elementary school. Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee, Finland, on 25 December 1976. 2.1 First bands, formation of Nightwish and first releases.Holopainen released his first solo album Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge in 2014. He also co-wrote the music for Nightwish's own film, Imaginaerum, released in November 2012.
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Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including a collaboration with Nightwish bass player and male vocalist Marko Hietala on " While Your Lips Are Still Red", for the Finnish film Lieksa! in 2007. He also collaborated with the gothic metal band For My Pain.
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He later recorded an album with them as a full member in 2020. īefore founding Nightwish, he played in the band Darkwoods My Betrothed. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music. 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.
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