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Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen

Birthday: 1976-12-25 | Place of Birth: Kitee, Finland

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen is a Finnish songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician, screenwriter and record producer, best known as the founder, leader, keyboardist and songwriter of symphonic metal band Nightwish. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music. 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 also co-wrote Nightwish's own film, Imaginaerum, released in November 2012. Description above from the Wikipedia article Tuomas Holopainen, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2012
2012
Imaginaerum

as    Tom Whitman (age 47)

2008
Nightwish: Live in Sydney

as    Himself

2008
Nightwish: Live at Wacken 2008

as    Keyboards

2006
Nightwish: End of an Era

as    Himself - Keyboards

2006
Nightwish: Ballads of the Eclipse

as    Keyboards

2005
Nightwish: Highest Hopes

as    Keyboards

2004
Nightwish: Nemo

as    Keyboards

2002
Nightwish: Bless The Child

as    Keyboards

2001
Nightwish: From Wishes to Eternity - Live

as    Himself - Keyboards