Satu is an album by Finnish avant-garde jazz composer, bandleader and drummer Edward Vesala recorded in 1976 and released on the ECM label in 1977.^[1]

Reception[link]

The Allmusic review awarded the album 2 stars.^[2]

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	[2]

Track listing[link]

All compositions by Edward Vesala except as indicated

1. "Satu" - 14:37
2. "Ballade For San" - 6:10
3. "Star Flight" - 5:42
4. "Komba" - 6:07
5. "Together" (Edward Vesala, Tomasz Stańko) - 7:06

• Recorded at Talent Studios in Oslo, Norway in October 1976

Personnel[link]

• Edward Vesala - drums
• Tomasz Stańko - trumpet
• Juhani Aaltonen - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, flute, alto flute
• Tomasz Szukalski - soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone
• Knut Riisnæs - flute, tenor saxophone
• Palle Mikkelborg - flugelhorn, trumpet
• Torbjørn Sunde - trombone
• Rolf Malm - bass clarinet
• Terje Rypdal - guitar
• Palle Danielsson - bass
• Unknown strings

References[link]

Genki Sudo (須藤 元気, Sudō Genki^?, born March 8, 1978 in Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan) is a retired Japanese mixed martial artist and a kickboxer who, until December 31, 2006 competed in the Japanese fighting organization HERO'S and before that, the Ultimate Fighting Championship and Pancrase. He is notable for his elaborate ring entrances^[2] and unorthodox fighting style.^[3] His philosophy is "We are all one."^[4] He is a practicing Buddhist.^[5] Signature moves include the flying triangle and spinning backfist. He is also an essayist, a musician, an actor and a dancer.

Career[link]

Amateur era[link]

Genki Sudo was born in Koto Ward in Tokyo, Japan on March 8, 1978. His father is a chef and the manager of his Seafood restaurant "Isokou"(磯幸).

He started practicing Greco-Roman wrestling during high school.

After graduating high school, he attended Takushoku Junior College beginning in 1996, and graduating in 1998. During this time in college, he won JOC Cup All Japan Junior Wrestling Championship.

In April 1998, Genki moved to the United States and enrolled in Santa Monica College, but dropped out soon after. During his time in Los Angeles, he joined the Beverly Hills Jiu-Jitsu Club and practiced Brazilian jiu jitsu.

Professional MMA[link]

On December 21, 2001, Sudo fought against Kenichi Yamamoto at Yokohama Cultural Gymnasium, and won by Rear Naked Choke.^[6] Prior to the match, Sudo and Yamamoto promised to bet Yamamoto's UFC championship belt on the outcome. Following his win, Sudo was given the belt by Yamamoto, and Sudo was introduced as "UFC Japan Champion" by media after this bout. As the bet was personal, he is not sanctioned as champion by Zuffa.

K-1[link]

Sudo participated in a K-1 tournament in 2002. He lost in the semi finals.

^[7]

A fighter with great striking ability, he has won fights by flashy knockout in both mixed martial arts and kickboxing. Among the rather unorthodox techniques that he favors and can use effectively are the spinning backfist, a flying leg-triangle choke and flying armbar, as well as dancing and turning his back to opponents in order to taunt or distract them.

Hero's[link]

Genki Sudo was defeated by K-1 HERO's lightweight champion Norifumi "Kid" Yamamoto. The fight was won by a controversial referee stoppage after Sudo was knocked down by a right hand which was followed by some punches.^[8]

Retirement[link]

At K-1 Dynamite! on December 31, 2006 he defeated Damacio Page by submission.^[9] After his win, and to the shock of the crowd, Sudo announced his retirement.^[10]

After retirement[link]

Prior to his retirement on New Year's Eve Sudo fought for K-1 HERO's, the mixed martial arts branch of the most popular Japanese combat sports circuit. Sudo is well known for his particularly flashy choreographed ring entrances that often include costumed dancers. One entrance featured Sudo doing the robot and operating levers that released a column of smoke from the top of his head while wearing a Kentucky Fried Chicken bucket as a hat and a white plastic mask, in an homage to the musician Buckethead.

On August 1, 2009, Genki Sudo and his office made an official statement to say information on Wikipedia was wrong. According to their statement, the bout between Sudo and Tiki Ghosn was originally declared a draw which was overturned after Sudo’s corner man, Bas Rutten, objected, at which point Sudo was declared the winner and given a medal.^[11][12]

Sudo has written eight books, is married, and has started an amateur baseball team for people 30 and over. He is also a member of the musical group World Order Sudo writes lyrics, music, and choreographs.

In 2008, he accepted the position of Manager for Takushoku University’s wrestling team. In the 2009 Eastern Japan University League Games, the 2009 All Japan University Greco-Roman Championship Tournament, and the 2010 All Japan University Wrestling Conference, he was awarded the prize for Best Manager. In addition, he led the team to victory in the 2010 All Japan Student Wrestling Championship, and in his second year as manager Takushoku University was victorious at all four of the biggest student wrestling tournaments. In 2010, he was made the Japanese representative manager for the World University Championship.

Sudo was cast in Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate (仮面ライダーＷ（ダブル） FOREVER AtoZ／運命のガイアメモリ) in 2010 as Kyosui Izumi, member of NEVER and user of the T2 Luna Memory. He reprised his role in Kamen Rider Eternal, in Kamen Rider W Returns which was released on July 21, 2011. He has also finished filming his part of the movie The R246 Story.^[13]

Graduate school[link]

On January 25, 2010, Genki took the entrance examination of Takushoku University Graduate School and he was admitted to the school on January 29. He entered the Local Government Course (Master’s Program) of the Graduate School of Local Government.^[14]

On April 8, 2010 he received his Black Belt in Jiu-Jitsu under Yoshinao Watanabe at Triforce Academy.^[1]

Mixed martial arts record[link]

Result	Record	Opponent	Method	Event	Date	Round	Time	Location	Notes
Win	16–4–1	Damacio Page	Submission (triangle choke)	K-1 PREMIUM 2006 Dynamite!!	02006-12-31December 31, 2006	1	3:05	Osaka, Japan
Win	15–4–1	Ole Laursen	Decision (unanimous)	Hero's 4	02006-03-15March 15, 2006	3	5:00	Tokyo, Japan
Loss	14–4–1	Norifumi Yamamoto	TKO (punches)	K-1 PREMIUM 2005 Dynamite!!	02005-12-31December 31, 2005	1	4:39	Osaka, Japan	Hero's 2005 Lightweight Grand Prix final.
Win	14–3–1	Hiroyuki Takaya	Submission (triangle choke)	Hero's 3	02005-09-07September 7, 2005	2	3:47	Tokyo, Japan	Hero's 2005 Lightweight Grand Prix semi-final.
Win	13–3–1	Kazuyuki Miyata	Submission (armbar)	Hero's 3	02005-09-07September 7, 2005	2	4:45	Tokyo, Japan	Hero's 2005 Lightweight Grand Prix quarter-final.
Win	12–3–1	Ramon Dekker	Submission (heel hook)	Hero's 1	02005-03-26March 26, 2005	1	2:54	Saitama, Japan
Win	11–3–1	Royler Gracie	KO (punches)	K-1 MMA ROMANEX	02004-05-22May 22, 2004	1	3:40	Saitama, Japan
Win	10–3–1	Mike Brown	Submission (triangle/armbar)	UFC 47	02004-04-02April 2, 2004	1	3:31	Nevada, United States
Win	9–3–1	Eric Esch	Submission (heel hook)	K-1 PREMIUM 2003 Dynamite!!	02003-12-31December 31, 2003	2	0:41	Nagoya, Japan
Loss	8–3–1	Duane Ludwig	Decision (unanimous)	UFC 42	02003-04-25April 25, 2003	3	5:00	Florida, United States
Win	8–2–1	Leigh Remedios	Submission (rear naked choke)	UFC 38	02002-07-13July 13, 2002	2	1:38	London, England
Win	7–2–1	Kenichi Yamamoto	Submission (rear naked choke)	Fighting Network Rings – World Title Series 5	02001-12-21December 21, 2001	2	1:46	Yokohama, Japan
Win	6–2–1	Brian Lo-A-Njoe	Submission (triangle choke)	Fighting Network Rings – Battle Genesis Vol. 8	02001-09-21September 21, 2001	1	2:17	Tokyo, Japan
Win	5–2–1	Craig Oxley	Submission (achilles lock)	Pancrase – Trans 6	02000-10-31October 31, 2000	1	3:14	Tokyo, Japan
vDraw	4–2–1	André Pederneiras	Draw	C2K – Colosseum 2000	02000-05-26May 26, 2000	1	15:00	Japan
Loss	4–2	Kiuma Kunioku	Decision (unanimous)	Pancrase – Trans 2	02000-02-27February 27, 2000	2	3:00	Osaka, Japan
Win	4–1	Nate Marquardt	Submission (armbar)	Pancrase – Breakthrough 11	01999-12-18December 18, 1999	1	13:31	Yokohama, Japan
Win	3–1	Victor Hunsaker	Submission (elbows)	Pancrase – Breakthrough 9	01999-10-25October 25, 1999	1	1:43	Tokyo, Japan
Loss	2–1	Minoru Toyonaga	Decision (unanimous)	Pancrase – 1999 Neo-Blood Tournament, Round 2	01999-08-01August 1, 1999	2	3:00	Tokyo, Japan
Win	2–0	Kousei Kubota	Decision (unanimous)	Pancrase – 1999 Neo-Blood Tournament, Round 1	01999-08-01August 1, 1999	2	3:00	Tokyo, Japan
Win	1–0	Tiki Ghosn	Decision (unanimous)	ES 2 – Extreme Shoot 2	01998-06-06June 6, 1998	N/A		California, United States

Kickboxing record[link]

Professional kickboxing record

6 Fights: 2 Wins (2 (T)KO's), 4 Losses (2 (T)KO's, 2 decisions) Date Result Opponent Event Location Method Round Time 2006-09-04 Loss Ian Schaffa K-1 World MAX 2006 Champions Challenge Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan TKO (Punches) 2 0:59 2004-10-13 Win Michael Lerma K-1 World MAX 2004 Champions' Challenge Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan TKO (Cut) 2 2:09 2003-11-18 Loss Albert Kraus K-1 World MAX 2003 Champions' Challenge Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 2003-03-01 Loss Masato K-1 World MAX 2003 Japan Grand Prix Quarter final Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan Decision (Unanimous) 3 3:00 2002-10-11 Win Jin-Woo Kim K-1 World MAX 2002 Champions' Challenge Kōtō, Tokyo, Japan KO (Spinning Back Fist) 2 0:16 2002-02-11 Loss Takayuki Kohiruimaki K-1 Japan MAX 2002 Quarter final , Japan KO (Right Low Kick) 3 1:27 Legend:       Win       Loss       Draw/No contest       Notes

Bibliography[link]

The following books are all essays.

Discography[link]

Film actor roles[link]

• 2002: Madness in Bloom (凶気の桜)
• 2005: Fly, Daddy, Fly (フライ,ダディ,フライ)
• 2005: Swirling Fire (鳶がクルリと)
• 2008: R246 STORY「ありふれた帰省」
• 2010: Kamen Rider W Forever: A to Z/The Gaia Memories of Fate

Original video[link]

• 2011: Kamen Rider W Returns: Kamen Rider Eternal

Television drama roles[link]

• Friday Night Drama (TV Asahi)
  • Sky High 2 (2004)
  • Maid Deka (2009)

Titles[link]

• JOC Cup All Japan Junior Wrestling Championship Winner(1996)
• Hero's Middleweight Tournament Runner-up

Awards[link]

• Martial arts
  • UFC 38 Tap Out Award
  • UFC 38 Best Fighter Award
  • UFC 47 Tap Out Award
  • UFC 47 Best Fighter Award
• Movie
  • Spotlight Award (Short Short Film Festival & Asia 2008)^[15]
• Japanese calligraphy
  • Newcomer Encouragement Award (15th Taisho exhibition)^[16][17]

See also[link]

• List of male mixed martial artists

References[link]

External links[link]

• Professional MMA record for Genki Sudo from Sherdog
• Official website (Japanese)
• Management office
• Sherdog.com – professional MMA record
• Genki Sudo at the Internet Movie Database

Tuomas Holopainen
Tuomas Holpainen live in a concert
Background information
Birth name	Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen
Born	(1976-12-25) 25 December 1976 (age 35)
Origin	Kitee,  Finland
Genres	Symphonic metal, power metal, gothic metal
Occupations	Musician, songwriter, producer
Instruments	Keyboards, piano, guitar, vocals, bass, saxophone, clarinet
Years active	1992 – present
Labels	Spinefarm, Nuclear Blast, Roadrunner, Century Media, Drakkar Entertainment
Associated acts	Nightwish, For My Pain..., Timo Rautiainen
Website	Tuomas-Holopainen.com Official Website

Tuomas Lauri Johannes Holopainen (born 25 December 1976)^[1] is a Finnish composer known best for symphonic metal music. He has also studied jazz and classical styles, but prefers to be influenced by harmonic film music.^[1]

He is best known for being the keyboardist, band leader and main songwriter of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.^[2] He has also played in the bands Nattvindens Gråt and Darkwoods My Betrothed. His current side projects are the Gothic metal band For My Pain... and the band of Timo Rautiainen.^[3]

Holopainen has written several songs that have been included in movie soundtracks, including recent collaboration with Nightwish bass player, and male vocalist Marco Hietala on "While Your Lips Are Still Red", for the Finnish film "Lieksa!" in 2007. He's also producing Nightwish's own film, Imaginaerum, to be released in early 2012.^[4]

Biography[link]

Tuomas Holopainen was born in Kitee, Finland on 25 December 1976 the son of enterpreneur Pentti Holopainen and Kirsti Nortia-Holopainen. He has an older sister named Susanna who works as a surgeon-urologist, and an older brother named Petri who is an autopsy assistant. His musicality and skill in text expression showed early in school.^[5] His mother signed him up for piano class in school when he was seven years old,^[6] and he later studied clarinet, tenor saxophone, piano and music theory for eleven years at a music college.^[1] Tuomas had no interest in metal until his school foreign exchange partner took him to see Metallica in America, and he became hooked.^[7]

Holopainen joined his first bands in 1993. He played in several bands, including recording keyboards for three albums with black metal band Darkwoods My Betrothed and playing with Dismal Silence, Nattvindens Gråt and Sethian.^[1] Holopainen is a Disney, J. R. R. Tolkien and Dragonlance fan.^[1] In 2006 Holopainen said that he is "not religious, but an open-minded, thinking individual". He does not consider "religion to be bad, but human interpretation of it."^[8] His own religion is also something very personal to him.^[8]

Musical career[link]

Formation and first releases[link]

In July 1996, Holopainen began thinking of starting a band of his own, for which he would write the music and play keyboards. This was the birth of Nightwish, around a camp fire. He asked Emppu Vuorinen (guitar) and classmate Tarja Turunen (vocals) to join what was then an acoustic project.^[9] After hearing Turunen's strong voice, and because of the metal influences of Vuorinen and drummer Jukka Nevalainen, Tuomas decided to turn Nightwish into a metal act.^[9]

Nightwish's first non-demo release, Angels Fall First, came in 1997,^[10] followed by Oceanborn in 1998.^[9] In 1999, Holopainen and members of other Finnish metal acts like Embraze, Eternal Tears of Sorrow, Charon and Reflexion started the gothic metal supergroup For My Pain.... However, as all the members were busy with their own bands, the project was postponed for the future.^[2]

Nightwish's third studio album, Wishmaster, was released in 2000. The third release sold even better than the previous album. In 2001, again the idea of For My Pain... was brought up, and the members started planning a debut.^[9]

World fame[link]

Nightwish live in 2005.

In Nightwish's fourth studio album Century Child, released in 2002, Holopainen began collaborating with symphonic orchestras from Finland and the United Kingdom, which was a change in the band's music and Holopainen's style of composition, and also allowed for more freedom with additional instruments.^[11] The use of orchestral elements has been present in the studio album releases from Nightwish as of 31 December 2007.

In 2003, For My Pain... released its debut album, entitled Fallen. The album was received well, but the band has since lost fans due to a lack of new albums –- for the same reason that Fallen was delayed by four years. In 2004 For My Pain... released "Killing Romance", a Finnish single with three previously unreleased tracks; "Killing Romance", "Joutsenlaulu" and "Too Sad to Live".

Nightwish's fifth studio album, Once was released in 2004, and became their US break-through. Singles "Nemo" and "Wish I Had an Angel" were played on MTV. Nightwish started their most extensive tour to date, the Once World Tour, visiting several countries, like Japan, for the first time. After the last concert (a filmed show in Hartwall Areena, Finland which was featured on the End of an Era DVD in 2006), in October 2005, Nightwish gave vocalist Tarja Turunen a letter explaining her dismissal from the band.

Current career[link]

In 2006, Holopainen went through a dark period filled with anxiety and depression, made worse by rumours about himself and Nightwish in the tabloids every day. These events also inspired him in the writing of Dark Passion Play, Nightwish's sixth album.

Nightwish live in Melbourne, Australia, on 30 January 2008.

After heavy metal singer Timo Rautiainen's break up of Trio Niskalaukaus, he published his first solo album titled Sarvivuori with a crew gathered from different bands, including Holopainen on keyboards. Holopainen also wrote one song on the album. Early the next year, For My Pain... announced that they would soon start recording the successor to Fallen, but it was reported in the same autumn that the album once again was postponed.

In April 2007 Holopainen collaborated with fellow Nightwish member Marco Hietala to write a theme song for the Finnish film Lieksa!. The song, "While Your Lips Are Still Red", was the first song he had written specifically for a film, though several Nightwish songs ("Nemo", "Wish I Had an Angel", "Amaranth") have been included in film soundtracks. Holopainen has said that writing film scores is something he would like to do in the future.^[12] On "While Your Lips Are Still Red", in addition to Holopainen on piano, Marco Hietala performs vocals and acoustic bass guitar, and Jukka Nevalainen plays drums.

In 2007, Holopainen played keyboards with Finnish punk band Kylähullut on their EP Lisää persettä rättipäille. He would return to play keyboards on their following album Peräaukko sivistyksessä. Holopainen can be heard singing with the chorus on both of these releases.^[13]

The new vocalist for Nightwish was revealed in May 2007; Swede Anette Olzon, who appears on Dark Passion Play, released in late August of the same year. On 8 May 2008, it was announced that Holopainen would be the producer of Finnish pop/rock band Indica's next album, Valoissa, which was released in the fall of 2008. Holopainen was credited for helping to create the Finnish trance artist Orkidea's third album, Metaverse in 2008, for the collaboration in Orkidea's version of Nightwish's song "Bye Bye Beautiful" (Nightwish - Bye Bye Beautiful (DJ Orkidea Remix)).

Nightwish's seventh studio album, Imaginaerum, was released on 30 November 2011 in Finland and in North America on 10 January 2012.^[4]

Music[link]

Composing[link]

Holopainen is a source of inspiration for other bands, especially within symphonic, gothic and power metal. Simone Simons, lead singer of Epica, stated that she began singing due to Nightwish.^[14] Ex-singer of Visions of Atlantis, Nicole Bogner, also acknowledged that Nightwish had greatly inspired the band, especially for their first album.^[15]

Tuomas live with Nightwish in Paris, France, on 6 April 2008.

Sander Gommans of After Forever said that Nightwish "will certainly influence us in creating new songs".^[16] Finnish power metal band Sonata Arctica's lead singer Tony Kakko, who has worked with Nightwish both in making the "Beauty and the Beast" duet with Tarja Turunen and as a crowd warmer, several times explained how much of an influence Nightwish is for him.^[17]

Singing[link]

In the early days of Nightwish, Holopainen was the band's male vocalist, performing all male vocals on Angels Fall First. For subsequent releases, the band has recruited sessional male vocalists, as Holopainen preferred to focus entirely on his keyboards. However, he did sing Beauty and the Beast live if the band did not have a sessional singer available, contributed vocals to the track The Carpenter on Angels Fall First and chanting to the track Moondance on Oceanborn as well as vocals on Master Passion Greed (Dark Passion Play), although these songs are never performed live (with the exception of The Carpenter, which was performed at the Tavastia Club, Helsinki in 1998). He also performed the whispering in the background on While Your Lips Are Still Red, but he does not do this live.

On his profile on Nightwish.com, Holopainen describes that his strangest on-stage experience was "'singing' in front of 20,000 people," and his worst nightmare on stage is "having to sing again."

Live gear[link]

^[18] Holopainen prefers Korg synthesizers and workstation as his live and studio gear. After using an M1 he borrowed from his school, he bought a Korg N364 Music Workstation with money borrowed from his father, which he continued to use live until the end of "Once Upon A Tour". He then added a Korg Trinity which was subsequently replaced by a Triton. In 2004 the then-new Korg Karma was added to the setup. In 2007, for the Dark Passion Play Tour, the N364 was retired and replaced with two Korg TRs in order to make maintenance and repairs easier. He uses K&M Spider stands. Holopainen has a very visual approach to setting up his live gear. For the last few concerts on the Once tour, he had all of his keyboards painted white, and switched to purple for the Dark Passion Play tour. In addition, he has a 12" Edward Scissorhands figure on his two-tiered keyboard stand, and a Jack Sparrow (from the Pirates of the Caribbean film series) figure on his single stand keyboard (to his left). During some concerts in the latest Dark Passion Play tour Holopainen has had a large Ocean Soul named boat prop around his Keyboards.

Holopainen uses a Korg Oasys in the studio, and a few Oasys factory patches make an appearance on Dark Passion Play, but the instrument has yet to make it to the stage, instead the required patches are sampled and loaded into Holopainen's Triton keyboards.

Equipment[link]

• Korg N364 – (back on tour with Imaginaerum) music workstation
• Korg Triton – (retired) music workstation
• Korg KARMA – (Imaginaerum Tour) music workstation
• Korg OASYS – (Studio only) music workstation
• Korg TRINITY – (retired) music workstation
• Korg TR (x2) – (Dark Passion Play Tour) music workstation
• Korg Kronos – (Imaginaerum Tour) music workstation

Discography[link]

With Nightwish[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

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