Heidi Parviainen is a Finnish soprano

Soprano

A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately middle C to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four-part chorale style harmony, the soprano takes the highest part, which usually encompasses the melody...

 singer, best known as the lead singer of the symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn

Amberian Dawn

Amberian Dawn is a Finnish symphonic power metal band, formed in 2006 by Tuomas Seppälä and Tommi Kuri. Their third album End of Eden was released on Spinefarm Records in October 2010.-Atheme One :...

 since 2006

2006 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....

. In 2010, she revealed in an interview that she had in fact changed her last name, but kept Parviainen professionally.

Biography

Heidi grew up going to a musically oriented school, and started taking singing lessons by age 14, by the same time she started joining choirs and projects. In 1997

1997 in music

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 she joined the heavy metal

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 band Iconofear as a keyboardist

Keyboardist

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 and backing vocalist

Backing vocalist

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, and in 2006

2006 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 2006.-January:*January 10 – Eric Burdon releases his album Soul of a Man and begins touring with a new band....

 she started to search for a new band. Tuomas Seppälä

Tuomas Seppälä

Tuomas Seppälä is a Finnish guitarist, keyboardist and composer, best known as a founding member and main composer of the Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn...

, who was forming the project that would become Amberian Dawn

Amberian Dawn

Amberian Dawn is a Finnish symphonic power metal band, formed in 2006 by Tuomas Seppälä and Tommi Kuri. Their third album End of Eden was released on Spinefarm Records in October 2010.-Atheme One :...

 alongside Tommi Kuri contacted her after seeing her ad. Heidi tried out as a singer as well as wrote lyrics for the song "Passing Bells", before Tuomas Seppälä asked her to join the band.

With Amberian Dawn

• Amberian Dawn (demo) (2006)
• River of Tuoni (2008)
• The Clouds of Northland Thunder
  The Clouds of Northland Thunder
  The Clouds of Northland Thunder is the second full-length studio album by Finnish symphonic power metal band Amberian Dawn. It was released May 13, 2009...
  
  (2009)
• End of Eden
  End of Eden
  End of Eden is the third studio album by Amberian Dawn, and the first released on Spinefarm Records, previous albums having been released on KHY Suomen Musiikki...
  
  (2010)

External links

• Amberian Dawn Official Website