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    Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976) is a Finnish musician, songwriter, and record producer, best known as the primary songwriter,...
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    Kitee. The band was formed in 1996 by lead songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former lead singer Tarja Turunen. The...
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    known as the former bassist, male vocalist and secondary composer to Tuomas Holopainen, of the symphonic metal band Nightwish. He is also the vocalist and...
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  • Tuomas Holopainen wrote the music for the album during his time in the Finnish Army. In a 2008 interview with the British magazine Kerrang!, Tuomas Holopainen...
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  • While Your Lips Are Still Red (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    2007 song written by Tuomas Holopainen and Marko Hietala of the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. It was performed by Holopainen, Hietala, and Jukka...
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  • Johanna Kurkela, keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen (her husband), and guitarist, keyboardist and pipe player Troy Donockley. Holopainen and Donockley are also members...
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  • 2012 after the release of the band's subsequent album, Imaginaerum. Tuomas Holopainen has referred to this album as the "album that saved his life". The...
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    Jukka Nevalainen from elementary school and met Tuomas Holopainen at a gig by Nattvindens Gråt. As Holopainen started Nightwish he asked Vuorinen to join...
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    three-octave vocal range, and founded symphonic metal band Nightwish with Tuomas Holopainen and Emppu Vuorinen in 1996. Their combination of hard and fast guitar...
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  • and Roadrunner Records worldwide. According to Nightwish songwriter Tuomas Holopainen, the album is a concept album that tells the story of an old composer...
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    songwriter/keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and vocalist Tarja Turunen. The group currently consists of Holopainen and Vuorinen, alongside...
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  • All tracks are written by Tuomas Holopainen. Credits for Yesterwynde adapted from liner notes. Nightwish Tuomas Holopainen – keyboards Emppu Vuorinen –...
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  • metal album of all time. Speaking to Kerrang! in 2008, band founder Tuomas Holopainen reminisced that the band got really ambitious after the debut album...
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  • Blabbermouth.net. Retrieved December 14, 2014. Holopainen, Tuomas (May 16, 2014). "Nightwish's Tuomas Holopainen Records Demo Of 12 Songs For Next Album"....
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  • album was released on 6 August 2021. In a 2008 Kerrang! interview, Tuomas Holopainen remembered: "Doing this kind of really orchestral, symphonic stuff...
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  • contrast with what had happened for Oceanborn. The main composer Tuomas Holopainen considers the album "the most distant and least personal (...) in...
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  • Bye Bye Beautiful (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    song was confirmed to be the second single from Dark Passion Play by Tuomas Holopainen in an interview, but it was changed to the third single after the...
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    member to be a namesake for a newly discovered species, following Tuomas Holopainen, after whom had been named a species of fungus gnat discovered in...
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  • Perfume of the Timeless (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    bass, replacing Marko Hietala. Pre-release, it had been described by Tuomas Holopainen to be an eight and a half minute long song, with the chorus coming...
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  • Finland alone. All lyrics are written by Tuomas Holopainen, except where noted; all music is composed by Holopainen, except where noted Credits for Century...
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  • The Carpenter (Nightwish song) (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    Nightwish single to feature lead vocals by both Tarja Turunen and Tuomas Holopainen. It was performed live for the first time in over twenty years with...
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  • the themes explored in Endless Forms Most Beautiful. According to Tuomas Holopainen, after the creation of the previous album, which he described as "the...
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  • The Siren (song) (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    Spinefarm Nuclear Blast Composer(s) Tuomas Holopainen Emppu Vuorinen Lyricist(s) Tuomas Holopainen Producer(s) Tuomas Holopainen TeeCee Kinnunen Nightwish singles...
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  • Storytime (song) (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    two days before its commercial release. Composer and band leader Tuomas Holopainen has said of "Storytime" that it "is a single that pretty well represents...
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  • Amaranth (song) (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    Nightmail, Nightwish.com Archived July 1, 2007, at the Wayback Machine TuomasHolopainen.net - News Archived June 20, 2007, at the Wayback Machine "Etusivu...
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  • studio album of the same name; Nightwish's keyboardist and songwriter Tuomas Holopainen co-wrote the film. Imaginaerum, which is produced by Markus Selin...
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  • Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge (category Tuomas Holopainen albums)
    Scrooge is the first solo album by Finnish songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, best known for his work in the symphonic metal band Nightwish. It...
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    singles. The band was formed in 1996 by songwriter and keyboardist Tuomas Holopainen, guitarist Emppu Vuorinen, and former vocalist Tarja Turunen, and...
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  • Sleeping Sun (category Songs written by Tuomas Holopainen)
    Online and compositing: Sami Käyhkö, Reko Turja Tarja Turunen – vocals Tuomas Holopainen – keyboards Emppu Vuorinen – guitars Jukka Nevalainen – drums Sami...
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  • special, Sport Goofy in Soccermania and Alan Reid voiced Scrooge for Tuomas Holopainen's 2014 album, Music Inspired by the Life and Times of Scrooge. Young's...
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