Tarja Turunen (Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen Cabuli) is a Finnish lyric soprano singer-songwriter and composer.
She is best known as the original member and the former lead vocalist of Finnish Operatic/Symphonic Power Metal band Nightwish, founded by herself, Tuomas Holopainen and Erno Vuorinen in 1996. She was dismissed from the band after nine years, on October 22, 2005, through an open letter written by Holopainen, that was signed by the other members of Nightwish too. Turunen responded through another open letter, which was posted on her website in both Finnish and English.
Birth dates:
Tarja Turunen (August 17, 1977)
