Tarja Turunen Interview, Tarja leave Nightwish Part 1

Interview with Tarja, after nightwish split up, this is not the press conference.
Translation by Orion.
"Q: How about from now on, are you gonna stay a classical singer or are you gonna try singing in a rock band again? Is there something about it that would make you wanna keep doing it?

A: Yyyyyeahhh...Of course I'm gonna still do classical concerts in a future, and I hope I can develope myself in it, take lessons and make the basics better that I had before Nightwish. I have progress during Nightwish too, and I will in a future as well. And the rock-thing I'm not gonna forget either, and the future plans of me as a solo artist, and I don't wanna forget the certain heavy metal basis that I got in 9 years career in Nightwish. It has given so many new elements to me, and I'm gonna use them in future. It's not that I'm gonna make a heavy metal album, but some elements from here and there. Put them together with my classical voice, education and person. I think that's gonna be the thing that people hear from me.

Q: Is it impossible thought that you would join some band?

A: Now that you're asking....I've never sacrificed a thought for jumping into some band that already exists, as a frontwoman. That's pretty strange thought to me. I feel more like I wanna stand on my own two feet from now on and make music with people...But jumping into some band doesn't feel like me at all.

Q: If we think about Nightwish's music from the technical and interpretational point of wiew. What do you think, how difficult songs they are to sing? Can some new singer sing them just like that?

A: For me it took many years to learn to sing Nightwish's music. The learning process came to the climax with the last album. It took so many years to learn to sing those songs, not because Tuomas would've intentionaly compose difficult songs for me to sing, but because my way of using my voice is so very different from normal rock singing. And ambitus in a music is bigger and wider than rock singers usually use. So I think some sort of basis are needed, but on the other hand I believe that the band has no intetion to continue with Tarja-clone to jump into my shoes. And that can be very good and positive thing, but of course the spirit in those songs will change if the singer is not trained.

Q: Judging by the album charts, the new collection [Highest Hopes] wasn't as succesfull in the Finnish charts as the previous Once album. So what do you think, was the band going down?

A: Well personally I can't agree with that. Collection is of course a collection of the band's career, possibly the best songs from each album. And many fans already had all of our albums and this collection was kinda extra bonus, and I don't believe that it would be a first symptom of band becoming less famous, because I really believed that the next album would've been the huge success. I really believed that, and I talked about it in public that it's gonna be the biggest thing for Nightwish. That's what I expected and that's what I was ready for. And the fact is that ht ealbum Once got attention in countries that didn't know Nightwish before. But let's see how it goes and how this change will affect. It'll be like..."

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[Florek777]

She was then so extremly beautiful.

Tarja was then and still is a great singer.

She's very professional.

[Florek777]

Currently Tarja prefers classical music, but she's still a legend of metal.

She has a above average talent to singing metal live. It's clear.

[ColtonMcBonesHeil]

Wowie wow she's pretty.

[jiangteng]

i think she is a vampare

[crimrose]

@Feanor2345 Seriously what is WRONG with you? Are you always this charming? Do you say this to strangers on the street in real life when they tell you that they don't like cheese? Honestly. Grow the fuck up.

Also, I don't think I ever said anything about NOT liking Tarja...in fact, I do like her...so I'm not really sure what you're on about, anyway.

[Feanor2345]

@crimrose

O and I forgot. In addition, put your stupid head that bastard Tuomas asshole, whore!

[crimrose]

@Feanor2345 Wow, what's with the anger, sparky? Cool down a bit before you try to type out a message again. Actually, have you ever considered Prozac? Awesome stuff.

Other people have other opinions. Get used to it, you're gonna be seeing a lot of it once you move out of mom's place.

[Feanor2345]

@crimrose

Go to HELL BITCH!

[crimrose]

@drumfisch Just because someone LOOKS honest, doesn't mean they are. This isn't to say she wasn't, but if you're going on looks alone...I'm afraid you're going to be lied to and deceived quite a bit in life, my friend.

[crimrose]

@Feanor2345 Imaginaerum is pop? Well that's news to me. In that case, I am absolutely STOKED for Rihanna and Lady Gaga's new albums, if they sound anything like Imaginaerum!

[Yombz]

@EowynGeorgia She in Finnish.