Tarja Turunen was born in Kitee, Finland on August 17, 1977.

She is a songwriter and singer. Her areas of interest are Classical Music and Metal. Tarja started her musical career with the band Nightwish in 1996 and in 2006 was fired on a public letter. From then on she has been following a solo career. She has released many records, including Christmas albums, classic concert records and metal records.

With Nightwish she released 5 studio albums and 2 live albums; In solo career she released 3 classic albums and 4 other studio albums and 2 live albums with Metal style songs.

Her lemma is “Die Alive”, the same name as one of her songs.