Why anette leave nightwish

Tarja Turunen is a Finnish singer-songwriter, and was the original lead vocalist of Nightwish for twelve years , from the beginning of until the end of She was replaced by Anette Olzon in until and then, by Floor Jansen in Tarja now devotes time to her solo career, by She replaced singer Anette Olson on a very short notice.

On 5 February , After Forever announced that they decided to call it quits. The long break, during and , had made them realize that they did not feel the passion towards the band any longer. The Swedish group Therion also introduced gothic elements to their brand of symphonic metal on their album Gothic Kabbalah.

Bassist and vocalist Marko Hietala has announced he is leaving the successful symphonic metal band Nightwish. In an announcement issued on Tuesday the year-old Hietala cited his own issues with depression as well as disappointment in the music industry's corporate demands and dwindling profits.

For anyone living under a rock, Jansen got the job fronting Nightwish in the wake of the mid-tour booting of previous Nightwish singer, Anette Olzon, in October Jansen's entrance was a troubleshooting effort that paid off as she gradually made the songs and the stage — and ultimately the band — her own.

The sweep of the music means Nightwish has to make some concessions in performing its music live — namely the liberal use of backing tracks featuring the orchestral and vocal parts that the band can't perform live. Nightwish has announced the replacement for Marco Hietala, who has retired from the band. Finland's Nightwish are an award-winning, best-selling symphonic metal band fronted by Floor Jansen , their third female vocalist. Truth: Anette and her company has been paid a fifth of everything that was done during her time and with her.

We have no reason to lie, because this cake has provided enough slices for us all. The finances of the band have always been handled openly, honestly and evenhandedly. The books exist.

How individual members spend their share is up to their own responsibility. Doing the laundry is tiring. Remember to help your ladies with that occasionally. Vocalist Floor Jansen, who replaced Olzon, and musician Troy Donockley were recently named full-time members of Nightwish.

Graham Hartmann Published: December 26, Welcome to the laundry room These claims we can invalidate right away: Claim: Moments [before being fired], Anette had told Tuomas Holopainen of her pregnancy Truth: Anette told of her pregnancy to the whole band already a week earlier in Montreal. Claim: The boys of the band decided everything for me Truth: Neither Tuomas nor any other of the boys of the band can singlehandedly decide where we take off to and when.

Claim: Other income went directly to the men Truth: Anette and her company has been paid a fifth of everything that was done during her time and with her. We neither want to nor intend to comment this more now. Filed Under: Anette Olzon , Nightwish.

Categories: Metal , News. Since her highly publicized and decidedly ugly firing from NIGHTWISH in - the reasons for which still remain murky - she's been the target of keyboard warrior badmouthing, having exchanged the Anette vs Tarja slugfest her daily reality from the moment she joined the band for an Olzon vs Nightwish cage match. At the same time, she's moved on supported by heaps of praise for those that fell in love with her chapters of Nightwish history.

A work in progress since , Olzon has finally released her first official solo album entitled Shine. She's fully aware some Nightwish fans and the existing haters are going to crucify her new musical direction, but she's determined not to let them bring her down.

Stefan has his own band, and he also writes songs for major artists here in Sweden. He's also worked abroad, and was responsible for the winning song at Eurovision a few years ago from Azerbaijan. And Johan is a studio musician and plays everything from jazz to blues to rock, so he's more from the contemporary blues style rather than rock n' roll.

They thought this was a lot of fun, but when I came to them as the metal singer in Nightwish they thought we were going to do a metal album and got really excited. Then I told them it wasn't going to be a metal album and I think they were a bit disappointed at first laughs. I think the fans that really like me, and not only because of Nightwish, will be open-minded and appreciative of Shine. The metal fans, you never know, but I'm hoping to attract the pop and rock fans as well.

It doesn't sound like Nightwish and I've been very clear about that. People have asked me if I'm going to play Nightwish songs live and the answer has always been no. Some people are still hoping for that laughs.

Hopefully people will like this album, and as long as it sells and I get an audience I'll be able to go out play for them, which would be nice. First single 'Lies' is a solid start for Olzon in that it has a little bit of everything to offer; guitars, pop elments, and folk-oriented dynamics.

On the other hand, 'Falling' is more of a rock song and really isn't a representation of the whole album. I haven't written very many songs compared to other artists, but when I write now compared to before I have subjects and concepts.

I did a song just a couple of days ago, and it wasn't about Nightwish specifically, but the subject was being in a band and getting a lot of hate from other people. There was also a noticeable development on Olzon's voice between the Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum albums, and although the songs on Shine don't necessarily call for the same set of pipes there's a definite edge to her singing.

I've always sung with emotion, but before joining Nightwish I was scared of using a softer voice because I was always using a powerful voice instead. It's easier for me to sing at the top of my voice, so I was afraid when I had to use my softer voice in Nightwish. There was something lacking in my self-confidence, so physically I could do it but mentally I couldn't.

Recalling one of Olzon's finest moment in Imaginaerum; the song 'Scaretale', particularly the over-the-top theatre-worthy delivery of the line "Burning farms and squealing pigs. When it comes to theatrical stuff, I love it, and my big dream is to be a singer in a musical.

Imaginaerum was great for that because I could act; I could be a jazz singer, I could be doing nasty things I was playing a role. The 'squealing pigs' was a perfect moment for that. For the record, Olzon is dead serious about not performing Nightwish songs live in the future. You can be sure of that. I was asked to do a tour this past Christmas where I would have been singing some Nightwish songs and I refused.

There are a number of reasons for this. First of all, Tuomas is quite disturbed that Tarja is singing some of his songs, so out of respect I'm not going to do that. They're his songs and Floor is singing them now. I also don't be a Nightwish singer for the rest of my life because they have a new one. It would be different if I had written those songs because I would own them and have every right to perform them. How about the possibility of a tour with Tarja?

It's an idea that's no doubt floating around in many a concert promoter's head. Not because I don't like her, but because our music is so different from each other I think it would be ridiculous to pair us together for a tour.

She's doing metal and I'm not. I can't see it happening, but you never know. I think I'd do much better going out with someone more like me. Anette Olzon interview — February Ant May February 20, Anette Olzon is due to release her debut solo album, Shine next month.

Ahead of the release I spoke to her to talk about the album, whether or not she has any touring plans, and of course I asked her some questions relating to her time with Nightwish.

Read on to see what she had to say. How difficult was it trying to balance touring with Nightwish with raising your son? When I joined Nightwish I had one child and he was 5 at that time, so it was hard to leave him but at the same time he was not like a little orphan.

It was hard in many ways, but it got harder since I had my second child, Nemo, then you have a baby and it is much harder even if I brought him along. Now I have three kids so it gets harder and harder. Of course it depends on the kind of help you get from people around you and your family.

I have a very good network, I have a mum who helps me. With three kids, being on tour must be like having a rest for you. In a way it can be that. Why did you request that you not be seen or heard in it? First of all we had only talked about the documentary in a loose way before the tour started, that maybe we would do a documentary, and then when everything ended and they kind of fired me in a very bad way, I was quite angry and sad about the situation. Then a few months later they asked my manager if I wanted to pay for this documentary and be in it, and my reaction was Why?

Rather than simply admitting that each singer is different and has their own strengths and weaknesses they constantly compare and criticise. We sold more albums than Nightwish ever had in the past, so in that way I succeeded, but they made me feel very insecure and that I had to work so hard to be liked because of those comparisons with Tarja which I find quite amusing because we are so different.

There is also the fact that different voices work well on different things. I think what the boys did when they changed Tarja for a new singer, they wanted something new, a new sound, but at the same time maybe if they had chosen someone similar maybe it would have been easier for everyone in a way, but since the guys wanted a new style, that was the choice and the fans should maybe tried to have accept it a bit more, and many of them did of course, but it was hard for us all in many ways.

With any band breakup there are bad memories but also hopefully good ones too. What is one of your best memories from your time with Nightwish? I think it was when we won a big award in Germany called the Echo award which is like a Grammy.

Do you have any plans to join another band? Not at the moment no. Maybe I will start my own band at some point, who knows. Thank you very much for your time. Thank you so much. Monday, February 24, Sweden Rock Magazine. One day she was in the middle of a successful USA tour. The next, Anette Olzon was sitting in a plane going home to Sweden, thrown out and replaced by another singer. One and a half years after the break with Nightwish, it's time for a solo career.

At the same time, I was afraid people would forget about me. You have stayed out of the spotlight since you and Nightwish went separate ways in the autumn of Mine and Nightwish's divorce was pretty hard, something that I was very sad about.

I also had a child during that same time, so it wasn't really that strange that I took a little paus. It isn't so that Nightwish in any way have prevented you from speaking to the press by for example a contract?

I wouldn't sign such a contract. They probably would have wanted me to, but I didn't. But I didn't want to do a bunch of interviews with me just telling about how hard it has been. In an early stage, I felt that it is better to wait with meeting the press until I had finished the album. In that way I can now talk about both parts, both the good and the bad. Why did you forbid them from including you in it? It just felt pretty silly actually. Also during last year I have gotten so damn much crap from some fans of the band, that I am so much worse than Tarja Turunen.

The same fans have had this "Anette vs Tarja" thing during all these years. I know that Floor is very loved by the metal fans and I am not stupid.

The way we parted ways was also a reason I wasn't so very positive towards the guys in the band. Sure, the said I would get to watch the documentary before, and approve the whole thing, but I didn't really trust them. I was thinking of how they got rid of Tarja.

In retrospect it resulted in the pretty ugly documentary "A day before tomorrow" I did not want that to happen to me. I understand that fans who appreciate my time in the band maybe are disappointed, but on youtube there are many good videos from my time in the band. But that's not true, that is just something that he has made up. The truth is none other than that I was replaced before I had even had time to leave the tour and I haven't spoken to any of them since the day I flew home from USA Anette's last gig with Nightwish was in Salt Lake City 29th of September We haven't even made a proper end or said goodbye to each other.

All contact has been between our lawyers. I understand why he says that. I had probably done the same in his position, because it doesn't look good when you can't keep your female singers. During my years in the band I did my best to try to get them to communicate and solve conflicts. But their solution is to remove the problems instead of trying to solve them. In the end it was four against one.

I wish we could sit down and make an end, sort out what happened and ask forgiveness from each other. I have probably things to ask forgiveness for as well.