Finnish singer Tarja Turunen is better known as "Tarja" in the music business. She became popular and well known as vocalist of the band Nightwish, who mixed progressive / rocky elements with orchestra sounds and became one of the most successful and well-known cross-over bands. Tarja has quit in 2005 and since then she has concentrated on her solo career. On 2nd September, her new album Colours In The Dark will be released. And as if the wanted to make it go well with the album-title, she has covered Peter Gabriel's Darkness on this album.
The album will be released in various formats and can be pre-ordered:
Jewelcase-CD: amazon-uk
Special Edition Mediabook: amazon-uk
We had not the chance to listen to the track yet, but we will give you a brief description ince we heard it.
By the way: Darkness has already been covered a few years ago by German female singer Nena (Youtube)
Tarja will be on tour in Europe!
Video
Teaser-Video of the song Never Enough
Official Video of the first single Victim Of Ritual
Peter Gabriel created a mixture of the World Music in Passion with the Mainstream of So.
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Multi-Artist-Album from 2000, with Elisabeth Frazer, Richie Havens, Paul Buchanan, Neneh Cherry and larla Lionáird. Gabriel himself sings on four.
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