Título: Tarja Turunen
Seção: 1977-1995: Early life
Background: Tarja Soile Susanna Turunen-Cabuli (born 17 August 1977), known professionally as Tarja Turunen or simply Tarja, is a Finnish singer-songwriter. She is a soprano and has a vocal range of three octaves. Turunen studied singing at Sibelius Academy and Hochschule fur Musik Karlsruhe. She is a professional classical lied singer, and the former lead vocalist of the Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish, which she founded with Tuomas Holopainen and Emppu Vuorinen in 1996.

Conteúdo: Tarja Turunen was born in the small village of Puhos, near Kitee, Finland. She has an older brother, Timo, and a younger brother, Toni. Her mother Ritva Sisko Marjatta (Hakkarainen) worked in the town administration, and her father Teuvo Turunen is a carpenter. Her talent for music was first noted when she sang the song "Enkeli taivaan" (the Finnish version of "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come") in the Kitee church hall at age three. She joined the church choir and started taking vocal lessons. At age six, she started playing piano.  At comprehensive school, Turunen performed as a singer for several projects. Her first piano teacher Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen, "Tarja was in a school that had some very musical people. Even then she got to perform a lot. I think she sang in every school function there was." Her music teacher, Plamen Dimov, later explained that, "If you gave Tarja just one note, she immediately got it. With the others, you'd have to practice three, four, five times". At school she had a tough time, since some girls bullied her because they envied her voice. To solve that problem, Dimov organized projects outside school. At fifteen, Turunen had her first major appearance as a soloist at a church concert in front of a thousand listeners. In 1993 she attended the Senior Secondary School of Art and Music in Savonlinna.  For several years Turunen performed various songs including soul music by Whitney Houston and Aretha Franklin. Later she listened to songs from the c

user: What was Tarja's early life like

assistant: Her talent for music was first noted when she sang the song "Enkeli taivaan" (the Finnish version of "From Heaven Above to Earth I Come")

user: When did she first join Nightwish?

assistant: CANNOTANSWER

user: Was she vocally trained?

assistant: Her music teacher, Plamen Dimov, later explained that, "If you gave Tarja just one note, she immediately got it.

user: Did she make any performances?

assistant: At fifteen, Turunen had her first major appearance as a soloist at a church concert in front of a thousand listeners.

user: When did she first gain recognition

assistant: At comprehensive school,

user: How did she catch attention at school?

assistant: "Tarja was in a school that had some very musical people. Even then she got to perform a lot. I think she sang in every school function there was."

user: Did she ever go to college?

assistant: At eighteen, she moved to Kuopio to study at the Sibelius Academy.

user: What are some other interesting aspects about this article?

assistant: Her mother Ritva Sisko Marjatta (Hakkarainen) worked in the town administration, and her father Teuvo Turunen is a carpenter.