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Tuomas Holopainen
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Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish pianist, composer, poet, and record producer. Born on December 25, 1976, in Kitee, he has been active in his field since 1992. His musical work is associated with the symphonic metal genre, and he is a member of the bands Nightwish, Darkwoods My Betrothed, For My Pain..., and Auri. He plays the piano, electronic keyboard, and musical keyboard, and his work has been released through Spinefarm Records.
Holopainen is married to Johanna Kurkela and is a relative of Miitta Sorvali. He speaks Finnish and has been credited with five works. His music has accumulated 1,191,273 plays and 37,347 listeners on Last.fm, where it is tagged with terms such as symphonic metal, finnish, Soundtrack, metal, and poet.
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Kitee, Finland
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, screenwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed.…
Known for
- Nightwish - Virtual Live Show From the Islanders Arms 2021 — Keys2022
- Nightwish - Au Hellfest 2022 — Keys2022
- Nightwish: Live at PinkPop — Keys2022
- Nightwish - An Evening With Nightwish In A Virtual World2021
- Nightwish: Decades (Live in Buenos Aires) — Himself - Keyboards2019
- Nightwish: Live at Bloodstock 2018 — Keys2018
- Nightwish: Live at Wacken2018
- To Nightwish with Love — Tuomas Holopainen2016
- Nightwish: Vehicle Of Spirit — Self - Keyboards2016
- Nightwish: Live Ratina Stadion, Tampere — Self - Keyboards2016
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Country
- Finland
- Active from
- 1976
Discography
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 37,347
- Total plays
- 1,191,273
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Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish composer, musician and music producer. Despite being centered in heavy metal music, he has also studied genres such as jazz and classical. Holopainen is mostly famous for being the keyboardist, band leader, founder and main songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the gothic-doom metal band For M
Key facts
- Born
- Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen , ( 1976-12-25 ) 25 December 1976 (age 49) , Kitee , Finland
- Genres
- Symphonic metal power metal gothic metal progressive folk
- Occupations
- Musician composer record producer
- Instrument
- Keyboards
- Years active
- 1991–present
- Label
- Nuclear Blast
- Member of
- Nightwish Auri Darkwoods My Betrothed
- Formerly of
- Nattvindens Gråt For My Pain...
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Johannes
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Finland
- Place of birth
- Kitee
- Spouse
- Johanna Kurkela
- Occupation
- pianist
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Genre
- symphonic metal
- Instrument
- musical keyboard
- Record label
- Spinefarm Records
- Image
- 20151121 Oberhausen Nightwish Nightwish 0313.jpg
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- Tuomas Holopainen
- date of birth
- 1976-12-25
- Commons gallery
- Tuomas Holopainen
- birth name
- Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen
- member of
- Auri
- start of work period
- 1992-00-00
- social media followers
- 29744
- name in native language
- Tuomas Holopainen
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Encyclopedic overview
Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the primary songwriter, keyboardist, and founding member of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has stated that his songwriting is influenced by harmonic film music.
Before founding Nightwish, he played in the band Darkwoods My Betrothed. He later recorded an album with them as a full member in 2020. He also collaborated with the gothic metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen.
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