Anne Marjanna Nurmi (born 22 August 1968) is a Finnish singer, composer and
keyboard player
A keyboardist or keyboard player is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instr ...
who is a member of the band
Lacrimosa. She lives in Switzerland.
Nurmi was born in
Tampere
Tampere ( , , ; sv, Tammerfors, ) is a city in the Pirkanmaa region, located in the western part of Finland. Tampere is the most populous inland city in the Nordic countries. It has a population of 244,029; the urban area has a population o ...
. In her youth she sang in church choirs and began playing keyboards. Nurmi is a
contralto
A contralto () is a type of classical female singing voice whose vocal range is the lowest female voice type.
The contralto's vocal range is fairly rare; similar to the mezzo-soprano, and almost identical to that of a countertenor, typically b ...
singer.
In 1987, Nurmi and a singer named Jyrki started a
gothic rock
Gothic rock (also called goth rock or simply goth) is a style of rock music that emerged from post-punk in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s. The first post-punk bands which shifted toward dark music with gothic overtones include Siouxsie a ...
band called ''Noidat'' ( fi, The Witches). In 1989, two more members, Nauku and Toby, joined the band. The band then changed its name to ''Two Witches'' and started writing its lyrics in
English
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.
In 1993,
Two Witches toured together with Lacrimosa, where Anne met the
German
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-born musician
Tilo Wolff
Tilo Wolff (born 10 July 1972) is a German musician and artist. He was born in Frankfurt am Main and currently lives in Switzerland.
His longest-running project is the band Lacrimosa, which since its debut in 1990 has produced 11 albums. The b ...
. Tilo was so fascinated by Anne's voice that he invited her to join his project and so Anne became a member of Lacrimosa in 1993.
Discography
Lacrimosa albums
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
References
External links
Lacrimosa
1968 births
Living people
musicians from Tampere
Women heavy metal singers
21st-century Finnish women singers
Finnish heavy metal singers
Finnish keyboardists
Finnish expatriates in Switzerland
Finnish expatriates in Germany
20th-century Finnish women singers
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