Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, youngest of three siblings in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer. Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles, but he didn't appreciate these styles explaining to be influenced by harmonic film music.
Holopainen is best known for being the keyboardist, band leader and main songwriter, of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish. He h...
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Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, youngest of three siblings in Kitee, Finland) is a Finnish composer, musician, poet and producer. Known best for heavy metal music, he has also studied jazz and classical styles, but he didn't appreciate these styles explaining to be influenced by harmonic film music.
Holopainen is best known for being the keyboardist, band leader and main songwriter, of Finnish symphonic power metal band Nightwish. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the gothic metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen.
Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player, and male vocalist, Marco Hietala on “While Your Lips Are Still Red”, for the Finnish film “Lieksa!” in 2007. He has revealed that he is working on another "movie project", but that he can't reveal anything about it yet.
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