Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25, 1976, in Kitee, Finland) is the keyboardist and main songwriter in the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gr?t and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side project is gothic metal band For My Pain....

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Holopainen started to study in a musical college majoring in clarinet and minoring in piano. He played in several bands, before coming up with the idea of a band of his own, where he would write all the music. That was the birth of Nightwish in the summer of 1996. He then asked Emppu Vuorinen and Tarja Turunen to join what then was but an acoustic project. After hearing Tarja's strong lyrical voice, Tuomas decided to turn Nightwish into a metal act.

December 25: December 25 is the 359th day of the year (360th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 6 days remaining....

1976: 1976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar)....

Kitee: Kitee is a municipality of Finland....