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Sami Vänskä is the former bassist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
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- Nightwish: End of Innocence — Self2003
- Nightwish: From Wishes to Eternity - Live — Himself - Bass2001
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Sami Vänskä (born September 26, 1976) is the former bassist of Finnish symphonic-power metal quintet Nightwish. He started playing bass as a private study. He has played in a few bands which have been mostly from the metal genre. Before Nightwish he played in Nattvindens Gråt, just like Tuomas Holopainen. He joined Nightwish for their second studio album, Oceanborn. Holopainen asked the band's manager, Ewo Rytkonen, to tell Vänskä to leave Nightwish some time after the release of Over the Hills
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Finland
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Genre
- symphonic metal
- Instrument
- bass guitar
- Record label
- Spinefarm Records
- Image
- Sami Vänskä.jpg
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- Sami Vänskä
- date of birth
- 1976-09-26
- start of work period
- 1994-00-00
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