◇ image via WikipediaTarja Turunen
Tarja Turunen is a Classical act. Their sound grew out of Marko Hietala, Symphony of Destruction, Marco Hietala, Candice Night and Van Canto. Those roots explain a lot about how Tarja Turunen arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation, Xandria and ReVamp, sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into Nightwish, Waltari and Scorpions, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 33 connections around Tarja Turunen, reaching back through Marko Hietala and forward to Nightwish. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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Tarja Turunen connections
Tarja Turunen grew out of Marko Hietala, Symphony of Destruction, Marco Hietala and Candice Night, shares an orbit with Nightwish, Epica, Within Temptation and Xandria, went on to shape Nightwish, Waltari and Scorpions. 33 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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