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Those who are interested in the new, courageous musical beginning of this vocally talented scandinavian celebrity could have already looked for details in the previous issue. Because great events throw their shadows - and the 29-year-old Tarja Turunen, a vocally applicative involved in the huge success of Nightwish, is truly not planning anything less greater. The very sympatic Finnish export hit had already finished the ample work on her debut album "My Winter Storm" at the time of the interview, in the end of October. The preannouncement of the attractive vocalist, that her ambitious world of songs circles in an equally opulent-bombastic, invested but also emotionally structured sound-cosmos proved to be true by means of her first single, "I Walk Alone". She has conciously bowed out of her nine years-long accustomed heavy metal appeareance of Nightwish, because she decided, as a primary distinctly enthusiast of classical music, that it is time to unlock new creative horizons. Therefore, passionate and major aesthetic asessed fans can be very happy about the massive classical inspired and emphasized epic-dramatic celebrated soprano presentations - in particular about an operatical and orchestral listening experience, in which have been ingrained various rock and metal facets. The high sales of her debut album prove that the record company is a securely established major label. High expectations of her fans stir up at the same time - expectations, which Tarja herself faces curiously during her image campaign.

Tarja enjoys the warming sunshine of the morning in Buenos Aires, which is her adopted home town for a while, and talks to us cheerfully, laughing freshening at the same time: "I am very excited at the moment, which is a really good thing because the efforts of recording my solo album have already worn me partially out. This release is not only my debut album, but also a musical occasion for people with a character and heart. That's why I placed value on the delicate sound of the songs, to represent the emotional components the best I could. I really hope that the world can conceive the songs as sophisticated and deep as I have conceived them while working on them."
One thing remains as firm as a rock: the previous and also the new fanbase will experience a postive surprise, because the Finn attaches great importance to further development. Stagnation is a horror for her, as she lets people know. The singer personally does not let subversive and diverse promotional activities lack. "At the moment I am finally enterng the world" says Tarja, delighted, "because Universal Music is sending me all around the globe to promote my music, to all kinds of press conferences, interviews etc. This is stressful but pleasant at the same time for me, because my fans, along with their huge enthusiasm and such struggles, are worth it. After all, I really love what I am doing. For exmaple yesterday I had here, in Buenos Aires, a very enjoyable dinner with the winners of a special Tarja-contest - which has also happened in Spain. That's a really great thing. I really had to get in touch with the Argentinian fans once again, and I have to say that these people have very passionate tempers - they listen to music, not only how I noticed, no, they can really love it with ardour."
And the ardently Argentinians under Tarja's addendum have no awe to position themselves constructively in the composition of their idols' songs. "This is normal for Argentinian fans and I really like their dearly sympathy." Unfortunately, the massive supersaturation of the stylistic field is for the european music consumers the least important. This frenetical behaviour appears abnormal in the emotional and cautious Europe, because here it is either dominantly or exaggeratedly acclaimed, or notoriously bitched until it is calumniously badgered.
The sensitive Tarja, who very experienced is in this concern, is once again happy about it: "I think it is really amazing to be in this position thanks to my celebrity, to be so close to my receptive listeners - and to find out in the endless discussions with friends their specialised opinion on my music. This makes me stronger each time, because the music media is always very honest about the motives of the reporting. I always listen to the people's point of view about my work and especially to the mouths willing to share their opinion than the actual fans."
Her many paths have guided the skilled soprano for example to the Great Britan, more exactly to Newcastle and London. She recalls that gladly: "I really liked being there because I love that part of the world. I had been with Nightwish there, so many places have brought some memories back. Those people's interest in me has grown enourmously in the last few years, which can only make me happy as an artist."
After that, Tarja admits with a smile on her face that the comparisons, especially the ones made by the enthusiastic fanbase make her really nervous every time. The concerts are not different. "I am a devoted and at the same time a realistic person, with more than a few high aspirations - even only because of that I want to conclude myself as profesional as I can. It doesn't matter if I reveal myself to a huge audience, to a single fan or to a journalist, it's always about the people - people who want to observe me out of curiosity and who remember me as a very individual memory. I am completely aware of that. I don't want to lose this way or nervousness, because I don't want to get close to the danger of getting arrogant, self-aggrandizing or insolent features.
Sometimes I am rumored to be arrogant, and I really can't understand why. I mean when I don't know someone well enough to appreciate them as a person, it is normal to react with a courteous, polite reservation. Especially when there are so many strangers around me, I am very shy. Who can't cope with that has a lot more to learn about life and people." You can only agree with her on this.
Tarja reveales what concerns her about her image as an artist and role model: "Over the years, nobody has told me that I should pretend to be another person on the surface. I have established by myself how I am today and what I stand for. Lots of enviers and denunciators of either sex wanted to portray me as a puppet that can be influenced easily, with whom the band Nightwish, its managers, advisers and miscellaneous additional accountables can do whatever they want. Nevertheless, of course that I am not that naive, otherwise I wouldn't have come so far in this cruel music business. I live according to my own life and to my own beliefs - and it goes the same way with the singing. And this is exactly what I want to present in the actualy acheivement 'My Winter Storm'.
When the people will hold the CD in their hands, they will see the front cover, the booklet and also the visual assembly of my artistic concern by
themselves, while they will listen to my very own music - and all that arises from the bottom of my heart. The whole is my own artistic truth, exactly how I see myself at the moment. "My Winter Storm" is a mirror of my personality - my longings, fears and complete congeneric perceptions. And at the moment I can only wait to see how good this sounds to my listeners and fans."

"During the composing of 'My Winter Storm', many people have tried to convince me to make my debut album a heavy metal album, because they thought that I would have more succes as a popular figure. But I have decided, for the correct reasons, to follow my own visions and that is the actual result. Of course that I am taking a huge risk, but I would rather risk than than follow external instructions."

The trained singer can not guarantee that it will all remain the same in the future. "Even though I believe in what I can create as a productive person, I have to keep my right to try to be even better in the future and to experiment new things. Because if I compare 'My Winter Storm' with the old Nightwish stuff, then the new album should, technically speaking and dominantly be categorized as something innovative. However, this music reflects, at the moment and for the near future, all my inner dreams and all my positive hopes, exactly how the length of the album hundred percent the mentions. And that makes me happy every time I think about it", bursts surprisingly impulsively the emphatic, caring person. As Tarja adds with the marked accentuated emphasis, she has lost a lot of emotional energy because of her depicted image. "I had to be unbelievably strong for my relashionships, in order not to lose myself as a creative spirit, together with my creative aspirations. And with this I don't mean I had to be strong for a short period of time, no, actually I became a definite, triumphant winner over myself not a long time ago. And this also makes me be one of the happiest people on this planet. I asked myself many times back then: 'What are you going to do now?' and most of the times I couldn't even find a reasonable answer. Fortunately though, I have never thought of giving up, because my passion for music is too strong." It is easy to believer her, a connoisseur of previous top-notch singing powers - because you have to work for years on yourself and your singing abilities in order to do such glamourous deeds.
This condition of wasting recollection and subsequently self-discovery was extremely distinct after the Nightwish break-up: "In this way, the whole thing based on its significance was obviously very intensive noticeable for me - and something like this is impossible to forget. As a person I am hugely thankful for it though, because I have learned that inestimably learning effects can be beneficial in building my character." The Finnish beauty sees her new album as a step back into the music businnes. "My new band members, the new record company and actually every person involved has managed to accept my wishes and points of view, and that means a lot to me. In the end, as I have already said, everything comes from the bottom of my heart, so I can not be influenced about what songs to include on the albums or about changing them. The people who work with me have to understand and accept my creative horizon. Fortunately for me, this is the case for all my musical cooperatives. I am always in the middle of a learning process, which makes me and everybody around me more clever. We have proposed ourselves to remain decent and to tread the path of the music career step-by-step. But, apart from that, I cannot be pleased with songs that have a style or alignment which doesn't mean anything to me - my voice only works with vigour and huge inner happiness. The people who know me very well are aware of this fact."
In addition, the Scandinavien soprano is not too tired to suggest that she still belongs to the gothic metal genre a bit. "My other creative mainstay lingers recently more than in the classical genre. And because I have dedicated the last years so intensively to the gothic metal genre, I have kind of removed the classical music. Lots of people and fans have asked me what would I do if Nightwish decided to continue without me. And for that question was and is only one answer: 'Very well, then I will listen to my inner voices, that every person has and that will turn my innermost to the outside.' As a fan of timeless classical masterpieces, there was only one path for me that could be easily imagined. The most important for me is to be able to have confidence in what I am doing. I really trust the power and pureness of my voice. And that gives me the neccesary strength to walk on the high paths of classical music. But I don't want to cut back the roots completely, and that is accountable for the gothic metal parts in my songs. I feel good about them. That's why I consider 'My Winter Storm' a round thing, a clear mirror of my emotions."

"I have really liked the seemingly soundtrackness of the songs since the beginning, which sometimes makes these new songs so powerful. I have wanted to do something like this since I started to sing profesionally. And it was totally worth it: because all these dreamy and arisingly huge arrangements on the album arise the countless dark feelings from 'My Winter Storm' to a higher power. Perfect. This is exactly how I imagined my debut: I wanted the maximum of esthetical orchestral noblesse, combined with my soprano voice. This combination fits my personality of dark elegance perfectly."

Tarja loves the dark, but also majestic atmospheres. She begins the answer with a counter question: "How could I have done it differently? All these years I have I carried the classical music and the Nightwish music with me. I daydream about moments of powerful atmospheres in the epic, dark songs. If something like this is packaged in in beauty it brings me delightful experiences. And this will never change, because it is already too deep inside of me. I can even predict, that this element will spread in the future. I would find this very appealing", guesses she with continuous entracement.
We find out from the Finn: "This, what I am presenting at the moment, is really full of feelings. It is probably too emotional for many [laughs]. I have to wait and I am really looking forward to how the listeners will react to it. But we are living in hard times, and honest feelings don't seem to be so important to the people - maybe some listeners will be grateful that my new album can remind them of the delicacy of feelings. At least I hope so."
Fortunately, Tarja didn't have to much time for disposal when she was young, so she didn't lose herself in the train of thoughts, because she knows how tiring the countless and intensive arrangements for the next concerts mentally can be. "If I think of that I get immediately excited - I can't describe that combination of stage fright and anticipation. These days I work a lot with the members of my band, the management and the people who decorate the stage on many details of optical design and how to represent the songs on the stage the best. We are planning to play with a real orchestra one day, but we have to wait for that, and that depends on the success of my new album. I can only imagine how great it would be to play with a real orchestra - that would be one of
my biggest dreams as a singer." This is certainly also one of Tarja's fans' biggest dreams, so you can only wish both sides good luck with it.