Tarja Turunen was awarded the Gold Record in Germany last Saturday, at Summer Breeze festival. Mike Terrana (drums) posted the following message on his Facebook profile: "Tarja is the only artist from Finland to sell 120,000 records in Germany! She got her Gold Record tonight for Winter Storm. Nice !!!!"   Kevin Chown...

Tarja Turunen has posted the following blog: "It’s been a great summer so far. I have been able to be creative besides the shows that we are doing and that make me happy. Some days ago I met Erik in Finland and we wrote a couple of very nice songs together. You know Erik already from the songs “Rivers of Lust&rd...

Tarja Turunen has posted the following blog entry: "I had a great pleasure to do three different kinds of performances in Finland. First I went back to my high school city Savonlinna where I also enjoy the best weather of Finland, the real summer time. I have lots of wonderful memories from Savonlinna since I was living there for three...

Tarja Turunen has performed the song "The Good Die Young" together with Scorpions on the 22nd of July at the Finnish festival Saimaa Open Air. Klaus Meine dedicated the song to the victims of the bomb blast and massacre in Norway, which took place earlier on the same day. Watch a high-quality recording below: As previously rep...

NIGHTWISH frontwoman Anette Olzon has uploaded the demo recording that she sent to the band in November 2005 which led to her being hired to replace Tarja Turunen as the Finnish group's lead singer. The track, her version of the 2002 NIGHTWISH single "Ever Dream" (from 2002's "Century Child" a...