Former Members
- Anette Olzon
- Active: 2007–2012
- Instruments: lead vocals
- Albums with the band: Dark Passion Play and Imaginaerum
- Anette (born June 21, 1971) is a Swedish soprano, she replaced Tarja Turunen after her dismissal on October 21, 2005. Olzon was formerly the vocalist in the Swedish AOR band Alyson Avenue. After her admission in Nightwish, Anette played with several bands, in studio and live, including Brother Firetribe and Pain, and will release a new album in the near future, under her own name. Anette's departure from Nightwish was announced on 1 October 2012, midway through their North American tour, and Floor Jansen took over on vocals for the remainder of the Imaginaerum World Tour.
- Tarja Turunen
- Active: 1996–2005
- Instruments: lead vocals
- Albums with the band: the first 1996 demo until Once
- Tarja (born 17 August 1977) is a Finnish singer-songwriter, composer and actress, whose work includes two solo albums, with the third coming in 2010. She was dismissed from the band on 22 October 2005 after nine years, in the end of the Once Upon a Tour. In 2006, Tarja released a Christmas album, Henkäys Ikuisuudesta, with a support classical tour between November 25 and December 26. In 2007, Tarja released My Winter Storm, an album with various styles, including alternative rock and symphonic metal, that sold over 500.000 copies worldwide. The support tour, Storm World Tour, started on November 25, 2007, and ended at London on October 19, 2009, selling out.
- Sami Vänskä
- Active: 1998–2001
- Instruments: Bass guitar
- Albums with the band: Oceanborn until Over the Hills and Far Away
- Sami (born 26 September 1976) started playing bass as a private study. He has played in a few bands which have been mostly from the metal genre. He started his career in the band Nattvindens Gråt, with Tuomas Holopainen. He made 2 albums, A Bard's Tale (1995), Chaos Without Theory (1997) and a demo, Dar Svanar Flyger (1995), with them. He joined Nightwish for the second studio album, Oceanborn, and was soon replaced by Marco Hietala.
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Former frontwoman Tarja Turunen at Buenos Aires, Argentina, on September 6, 2008
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