Tarja Turunen

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Storm returns to Europe 2008

18/10/2008 OKTOBERHALLEN BELGIUM WIEZE Metal Female Voices Festival     
19/10/2008 ROCKHAL CLUB LUXEMBOURG ESCH-SUR-ALZETTE   
21/10/2008 INCHEBA ARENA CZECH REPUBLIC PRAGUE   
22/10/2008 BONVER ARENA (Hala Tatran) CZECH REPUBLIC OSTRAVA 
24/10/2008 INCHEBA EXPO ARENA SLOVAKIA BRATISLAVA   25/10/2008 CASSOSPORT HALL SLOVAKIA KOSICE   27/10/2008 SKC SERBIA BELGRADE 
28/10/2008 UNIVERSIADA SPORTS HALL BULGARIA SOFIA   
31/10/2008 EXHIBITION GROUNDS HALL 11 ISRAEL TEL AVIV 
3/11/2008 CKM NAU UKRAINE KIEV   
4/11/08 SPORTPALACE MINSK BELARUS     
6/11/08 B1 CLUB MOSCOW RUSSIA     
8/11/08 MTL ARENA SAMARA
 RUSSIA   

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Tarja con sus fans

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Y sigue!!

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Before returning back to Finland, I was in the studio in Buenos Aires recording the song “Enough” and two other songs.

Singing “Enough” was fun for me, because I had already sang the song many times on tour. Still the recording process is very different than singing live.

It was very hard to reach the same feeling in the studio that I had during the shows, because I didn’t have the screaming, lovely and supporting audience anymore in front of me 

Anyway, I really like how the song kicks ass! My voice sounds again pretty different than before and even for me it is interesting to realize how I am more free with my singing every day.

One other song that I recorded is the gorgeous “Wisdom of Wind”.

There is a story about this particular song that I would like to share with you. Some time ago I was invited by composers Jeff Rona and Lisa Gerrard to sing their song for Peking’s 2008 Olympic Regatta, but due to tight schedules, I was not able to record it in time. I liked the song so much that I wanted still to use it for my own album. So I recorded it now. It is a wonderful, moody song with symphonic orchestra. I hope you’ll like it.

It is an honour for me to sing a song from Jeff and Lisa!

Also I recorded a duet for Doro’s 25th anniversary album. It is a beautiful ballad. I hope she likes what I did! Hehe. Sometimes I get a bit too productive with my vocals…but it’s fun. I am looking forward to present the song with her in her concert in Dí¼sseldorf later this year. I was very happy to receive an invitation to the show, which must be very important to Doro and to her great, long career in music.

I was having good time with my fans in the “press conference” we did together in Buenos Aires. I had already done few signing sessions in Buenos Aires earlier so this time I wanted to do something different with my fans.

The mood was cool during the conference and in the end the people didn’t ask me too many questions, even though I was prepared to answer for much more! And I did some signing and photos after the conference.

There are not so many days left before my next European tour starts. Time is flying! I am really anxious to perform again in Metal Female Voices Festival and in many countries that I have never been before. Not even as a tourist! For example countries like Israel, Luxemburg, Bulgaria, Serbia, Ukraine and Belarus.

Funny today an Israeli journalist mentioned during his interview that rumours were that I have been afraid to go to Israel to perform in the past…

I could only laugh to that rumour   

After receiving several invitations to perform in Israel, luckily, this time was possible to arrange it! And I am going to spend even some days off there with my band and crew. That’s how scared we are   

So people, if I should have one drop per each wrong and malicious information spread about me, I wouldn’t need to go that far to dive…

Facts speak stronger than words.

I am really looking forward to get to know my fans in those countries. Thank you for making this tour to happen.

So, my Winter Storm, be prepared! I’ll come to sing for you soon in Europe (and Israel)!

With love, Tarja

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Banda de la gira Storm Returns to Europe + 2008
Nos complace anunciar a la banda que acompañará a Tarja en la gira Europea durante Octubre y Noviembre:

Tarja Turunen Voz
Mike Terrana Baterí­a (Masterplan, Savage Circus, ex Rage, ex Malmsteen)
Maria Ilmoniemi Teclados
Oliver Holzwarth Bajo (Blind Guardian, ex Sieges Even)
Alex Scholpp Guitarra (ex Farmer Boys)
Max Lilja Cello (Hevein, ex Apocalyptica) 

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Disco de Oro
A punto de comenzar la gira, y de visitar Rusia una vez más, Tarja recibió el premio por Disco de Oro por las ventas en ese territorio.

Gracias a los fans y felicitaciones a Universal Music Rusia y a Tarja
 

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Debido a que se han AGOTADO las entradas para el UNIVERSIADA SPORTS HALL en Sofí­a, Bulgaria, para el próximo 28 de Octubre, el concierto ha cambiado de locación y se realizará en FESTIVALNA HALL en Sofí­a, el mismo dí­a.
 

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Ex-NIGHTWISH vocalist Tarja Turunen's webmaster has issued the following announcement:

"The first five fans that send a tattoo photo and the first five fans that named their kid Tarja and send the photo will receive a phone call from Tarja!

Check more information in the new sections of www.tarjaturunen.com, Tattoos and Little Tarjas.

Have fun and good luck! We will all enjoy the photos for sure!"

As previously reported, Bulgaria's News.bg is reporting that the upcoming concert from former NIGHTWISH singer, TARJA TURUNEN, noted a specific record in sales of tickets.

All seats in the Universiada Hall completely sold out. Therefore, organizers arranged that the show be moved to a hall with almost twice the capacity, "Festival".

All purchased tickets for the concert will be valid for the new hall.

Turunen recently confirmed her complete band line-up for her upcoming European tour. Joining her are the following musicians: Mike Terrana - drums (MASTERPLAN, ex-RAGE), Maria Ilmoniemi - keyboards, Oliver Holzwarth - bass (BLIND GUARDIAN, ex-SIEGES EVEN), Alex Scholpp - guitars (ex-FARMER BOYS), Max Lilja - cello (HEVEIN, ex-APOCALYPTICA).

Turunen recently updated her tour schedule which is now as follows:

October
18 - Oktoberhallen - Wieze, Belgium (Metal Female Voices Fest)
19 - Rockhal Club - Esch sur Alzette, Luxembourg
21 - Hala Folimanka - Prague, Czech Republic
22 - Bonver Arena (Hala Tatran) - Ostrava, Czech Republic
24 - Incheba Expo Arena - Bratislava, Slovakia
25 - Cassosport Hall - Kosice, Slovakia
27 - SKC - Belgrade, Serbia
28 - Festival - Sofia, Bulgaria
31 - Exhibition Grounds Hall - Tel Aviv, Israel

November
3 - CKM Nau - Kiev, Ukraine
4 - Sport Palace - Minsk, Belarus
6 - B1 Club - Moscow, Russia
8 - MTL Arena - Samara, Russia

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Paula Febbe of TV Rock's "Rock de Batom" conducted an interview with former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen in August 2008 at the Sí£o Paulo, Brazil stop of Turunen's South American tour. Watch the four-and-a-half-minute chat below.

On the subject of her current touring lineup, Tarja said, "Alex Scholpp (FARMER BOYS), who played guitar on my record and on the two European tours, couldn't come to South America, so I was having Kiko Loureiro. You know, all these musicians that are playing with me are session musicians, so I have to give them time to do their own business with their own bands... Now in Europe there will be Oliver Holzwarth from BLIND GUARDIAN playing the bass instead of Doug Wimbish, who is touring with LIVING COLOUR. The rest of the band will be the same — Alex will be again on guitar, Mike Terrana (ex-RAGE) on drums, Maria Ilmoniemi on keyboards and Max Lilja (ex-APOCALYPTICA) on cello."

Asked if she is going to record her next album with the same musicians, Tarja replied, "Yes, but you know, when I'm writing songs or selecting material, it's always up to the feeling I have about what kind of musicians I'm going to work on each song. I have very different kinds of songs — there are these film-music-type of songs, and then metal, metal, metal, ha-ha! These are differend kinds of styles, so not every musician can play both types of music. The musician has to be an open-minded person. Doug Wimbish, for example, is a great man for this job, because he can play various music styles. However, I can't tell you for sure which musicians are going to be part of my next album, because it depends a lot on the songs."

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Fan-filmed video footage of former NIGHTWISH singer Tarja Turunen performing at the Metal Female Voices Fest on October 18, 2008 in Wieze, Belgium can be viewed below (clips uploaded by YouTube user "Filmpje114").

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPuvKay62qA


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26 de octubre!!

Tour has been a wonderful success so far. Everything has worked out fine and the band sounds very tight.

I think tighter than ever before. The band and crewmembers is a well-synchronised machine and as a good team, small changes we might have are not affecting the general balance.

Is a great achievement to have a group of people that can truly smile on stage (without acting it) while performing 

We are all having fun on stage and off stage!

As you might know, I have a new bass player with me on this tour, Oliver. We are happy to have him on board with us. I guess the lucky stars are still following me, because I’ve had so much luck to have these kind of great and supporting people to work with me.

Everything started in Belgium where it was an honour to headline the Metal Female Voices Festival. There were many people coming to tell me after the show that they’ve enjoyed my concert very much. It was nice to hear that. Even though it was the beginning of this tour, everything seemed to happen as wished

We already left behind Luxemburg, two shows in Czech and two shows in Slovakia.

It’s very nice to feel that as eastern as we travel, people show their feelings towards the artists more openly That’s just amazing. It reminds us a lot from the South American tour we recently did.

From the next seven cities we will perform, I only have the pleasure to know one, Moscow. So I’m heading to new places where it feels incredible good to be able to explore them.

Tomorrow we will perform for the first time in Belgrade, Serbia. And the show has been Sold Out for few days already

See you soon!

 

With love, Tarja

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Grammy awards 2009 Schiller & Tarja
Acabamos de enterarnos de que SCHILLER ha sido pre nominado en cuatro categorí­as diferentes para los PREMIOS GRAMMY 2009, entre las que se incluye

SONG OF THE YEAR
Tired of being alone | Schiller con Tarja Turunen

La canción apareció por primera vez en el álbum TAG UND NACHIT y en su versión internacional, Night and Day. Tired of being alone ha sido incluido en la versión internacional del nuevo álbum de Schiller SEHNSUCHT / Desire.

Las nominaciones finales en todas las categorí­as serán anunciadas el 4 de Diciembre de 2008 en Staples Center, Los Angeles, California.

Felicitaciones a Schiller y Tarja, y mantendremos los dedos cruzados!

 

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Gira Tormenta Regresa a las Amíéricas 2009 anunciada
La pre-venta por Internet comienza el Jueves 30 de Octubre y la venta al público un mes despuíés.
Fans Canadienses y Americanos... Allá vamos!
 

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Enough @ Luxembourg

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October 21, 2008 Incheba Arena in Prague, Czech Republic

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