Tuomas Lauri Johannes 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 Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side project is the gothic-doom metal band For My Pain.... He currently plays in the band of Timo Rautiainen.
Holopainen started studying in a music college majoring in clarinet and minoring in piano. He has played various kinds of music, including classical, jazz and metal. He played in several bands, including recording keyboards for three albums with the black metal band Darkwoods My Betrothed, before coming up with the idea for a band of his own, where he would write all the music. That was the birth of Nightwish in July of 1996, around a camp fire. He then asked Emppu Vuorinen and Tarja Turunen to join what then was but an acoustic project. After hearing Turunen's strong voice, Tuomas decided to turn Nightwish into a metal act.
Nightwish's first release, Angels Fall First, came in 1997, but it was in 1998, after the release of Oceanborn, that Holopainen's compositional skills reached full acclaim worldwide. In Century Child, Once and the upcoming album Holopainen began collaborating with symphonic orchestras from Finland and the United Kingdom.
Nightwish released the DVD End of an Era, cointaining their last concert with Tarja Turunen, in Hartwall arena, Helsinki 2005.
The next Nightwish release Dark Passion Play is set for September 2007 with a lead-in single, Eva, released on May 25, 2007, an internet and radio release.
Holopainen is a Disney, J. R. R. Tolkien and Dragonlance fan, with some of his songs containing references to these worlds.
Holopainen have been as a producer of the Silentium's album Sufferion - Hamartia of Prudence (2003).
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