Tarja Turunen

{{Infobox musical artist | name = Tarja Turunen | image = Tarja (27) (53817989765) (cropped).jpg | image_size = | alt = | caption = Turunen performing in 2024 | birth_name = Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen | alias = | birth_date = (1977-08-17) 17 August 1977 | birth_place = Kitee, Finland | origin =

| genre =

• Symphonic metal
• power metal
• gothic metal

| occupation = {{hlist|Singer|songwriter

Solo

• Henkäys ikuisuudesta (2006)
• My Winter Storm (2007)
• What Lies Beneath (2010)
• Colours in the Dark (2013)
• Ave Maria – En Plein Air (2015)
• The Shadow Self (2016)
• From Spirits and Ghosts (Score for a Dark Christmas) (2017)
• In the Raw (2019)
• Dark Christmas (2023)

with Nightwish

• Angels Fall First (1997)
• Oceanborn (1998)
• Wishmaster (2000)
• Century Child (2002)
• Once (2004)

References

General sources

• Ollila, Mape (2007). Once Upon a Nightwish. The Official Biography 1996–2006. Deggael Communications Ltd. ISBN 978-952-99749-2-4.
• Della Ciopa, Gianni (2010), Heavy Metal: I Contemporanei, Giunti editore S.p.A., ISBN 978-88-09-76634-1
• Cope, Andrew L. (2010), Black Sabbath and the rise of Heavy Metal Music, Ashgate Publishing Limited, ISBN 978-0-7546-6881-7
• Nohr, Rolf F.; Schwaab, Herbert (2011), Metal Matter, Lit Verlag, ISBN 978-3-643-11086-2
• Turunen, Tarja (2021), Singing in My Blood (Illustrated ed.), Rocket88, ISBN 978-1-910-97868-9

External links

• Tarja's official website Archived 20 May 2013 at the Wayback Machine
• Colours in the Dark Blog
• Beauty and the Beat official website
• Tarja Turunen, interview: "Music Has Been My Driving Force" October 28, 2011