Tuomas Holopainen

Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25th, 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 an

Tuomas Holopainen (born December 25th, 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 gothic metal band For My Pain....

Holopainen started to study in a musical college majoring in clarinet and minoring in piano. He played in several bands, before coming up with the idea of a band of his own, where he would write all the music. That was the birth of Nightwish in the summer of 1996. He then asked Emppu Vuorinen and Tarja Turunen to join what then was but an acoustic project. After hearing Tarja's strong lyrical voice, Tuomas decided to turn Nightwish into a metal act.