
Tuomas Holopainen
Acting
Born: December 25, 1976
Kitee, Finland
Biography
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.
Also Known As
- Nightwish
- Darkwoods My Betrothed
- Nattvindens Gråt
Known For

November 23, 2012

June 01, 2006

November 28, 2013

May 30, 2001

December 16, 2016

December 06, 2019

November 28, 2013

December 19, 2015

October 06, 2003

March 11, 2022

June 15, 2013

September 25, 2015