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Tarja Turunen

1977 - Today

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Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish heavy metal singer, best known as the former lead vocalist of Nightwish. Turunen studied lyrical singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule für Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer with a 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 riffs with Turunen's dramatic, "operatic" lead vocals quickly achieved critical and commercial popularity. Read more on Wikipedia

Her biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tarja Turunen is the 351st most popular singer (up from 359th in 2019), the 61st most popular biography from Finland and the most popular Finnish Singer.

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Among SINGERS

Among singers, Tarja Turunen ranks 351 out of 4,381. Before her are DJ Khaled, Šaban Šaulić, Liam Payne, Bob Geldof, Chris Brown, and Nellie Melba. After her are Victoria Beckham, Hank Williams Jr., Lola Flores, Laura Pausini, Dusty Springfield, and Tereza Kesovija.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1977, Tarja Turunen ranks 21. Before her are Freddie Ljungberg, Deco, Natalia Oreiro, Orlando Bloom, David Trezeguet, and John Cena. After her are Liv Tyler, Sarah Wayne Callies, Chadwick Boseman, Jessica Chastain, Phil Neville, and Hidetoshi Nakata.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tarja Turunen ranks 61 out of 751. Before her are Armi Kuusela (1934), Peter Forsskål (1732), Hannu Mikkola (1942), Marco Hietala (1966), Georg Henrik von Wright (1916), and Aimo Cajander (1879). After her are Fredrik Idestam (1838), Tom of Finland (1920), Lasse Virén (1949), Eino Leino (1878), Ville Ritola (1896), and Eero Saarinen (1910).

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Among SINGERS In Finland

Among singers born in Finland, Tarja Turunen ranks 1. After her are Lill Lindfors (1940), Ville Valo (1976), Aino Ackté (1876), Marion Rung (1945), Matti Salminen (1945), Katri Helena (1945), Lasse Mårtenson (1934), Timo Kotipelto (1969), Laila Kinnunen (1939), Kirka (1950), and Lauri Ylönen (1979).

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