Anne Marjanna Nurmi (born 22 August 1968) is a Finnish singer, composer and

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who is a member of the band

Lacrimosa The ''Lacrimosa'' (Latin for " weeping/tearful"), is part of the Dies Irae sequence in the Catholic Requiem Mass. Its text comes from the Latin 18th and 19th stanzas of the sequence. Many composers, including Mozart, Berlioz, and Verdi have set ...

. She lives in Switzerland. Nurmi was born in

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

. In her youth she sang in church choirs and began playing keyboards. Nurmi is a

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singer. In 1987, Nurmi and a singer named Jyrki started a

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band called ''Noidat'' (). 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

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. In 1993,

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toured together with Lacrimosa, where Anne met the German-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 debuted in 1990. The band embraces a diverse range o ...

. 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 Gothic rock musicians Women gothic musicians Women heavy metal singers 21st-century Finnish women singers Finnish heavy metal singers Finnish keyboardists Finnish women keyboardists Finnish expatriates in Switzerland Finnish expatriates in Germany 20th-century Finnish women singers {{finland-musician-stub