Tarja Turunen - Biography, Pictures, Filmography, Wallpaper ... 

Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli (born 17 Aug. 1977 (33 years ago)) is a Finnish singer-songwriter, composer and actress, whose work includes two solo albums, with the third coming in 2010 (this year).

Tarja Turunen is Finland's most successful singer, with 3 gold awards and 3 platinum awards, having been called "the voice of Finland" by Tarja Halonen, the Finnish president. She's best known as original member and the former lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic power metal quintet Nightwish (6 walls), founded by her beside Tuomas Holopainen and Erno Vuorinen in 1996.

Nightwish - Sleeping Sun

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Born in Kitee, Finland, Turunen began to study music at the age of six, and moved to the city of Kuopio at the age of eighteen to study at the Sibelius Academy. She became a founding member of Nightwish (6 walls) in 1996 (14 years ago) when her classmate Tuomas Holopainen invited her to join his new musical project. That year Turunen also performed with the Savonlinna Opera Festival. However, she did not become internationally famous until the release of Nightwish's successful follow-up album, Oceanborn, in 1998.

Our Great Divide

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Phantom of the Opera, live at Hartwall Areena, Helsinki, Finland

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Sleeping Sun

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  The sun is sleeping quietly
Once upon a century
Wistful oceans calm and red
Ardent caresses laid to rest

For my dreams I hold my life
For wishes I behold my nights
The truth at the end of time
Losing faith makes a crime

I wish for this night time
to last for a life-time
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you

Sorrow has a human heart
From my god it will depart
I'd sail before a thousand moons
Never finding where to go

Two hundred twenty-two days of light
Will be desired by a night
A moment for the poet's play
Until there's nothing left to say

I wish for this night-time to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you


I wish for this night-time to last for a lifetime
The darkness around me
Shores of a solar sea
Oh how I wish to go down with the sun
Sleeping
Weeping
With you....