English translation: Orion

Tarja Turunen, who's working on her second album in London, gives off good mood and happiness. She's been on her own almost five years.

-I'm very happy with my life at the moment. While making the new album, everything has just clicked and I know how to see things in a new way.

Turunen's first solo album My Winter Storm sold platinum in Finland and it proved that she can make it on her own. The new album, What Lies Beneath, which comes out at fall, she produces herself.

-Producing is great, because I can hold all the strings in my own hands. I know what is the most suitable for me, and I'm trying to get the best possible result out of myself. When recording, I'm very disappointed to myself, if I have to do several takes. I'll prepair to the studio so well, that I need only few takes.

Turunen who confesses being perfectionist, gets different opinions from people.

-I've grown a lot during the past few years. I can look myself in the mirror, and see things that I need to develope. I'm really strong character and I always aim to the perfection. It doesn't always please everyone.

Turunen's past as a front woman of one of the most succesful Finnish bands made her ready for her own career.

-Looking back is always good. In my case, it means a huge highway to teh future.

Music is the number one thing for Turunen, who lives in Buenos Aires. But other things are in her mind too.

-It is obvious that the biological clock is ticking, when a woman is over 30 years old. We have talked about kids with Marcelo, and there's gonna be a time when we start a family.

-But now it's time to make an album and we're concertrating on that. However, we can practise baby-making, so we know how to do it perfectly when the time comes, Turunen laughs.