Tarja Turunen contributes to Finnish Christmas album; audio available

Former Nightwish singer Tarja Turunen recently recorded three songs for a Finnish Christmas album, produced by Olli Ahvenlahti. Entitled "Maailman Kauneimmat Joululaulut" (English: The World's Most Beautiful Christmas Songs), the CD is a charity project for missionary workers in Finland. It will be released on November 18 via Universal Music.

The three tracks Tarja appears on have surfaced on YouTube and can be streamed below.

Tarja Turunen has set "What Lies Beneath" as the working title of her new solo CD, tentatively due in early 2010. She says, "With [2007's] 'My Winter Storm', I chose the name of the album in the early stages and that helped me to create the concept for the album. With the new album, I decided to do it the same way, so I searched for an inspiring title and all the songs are one way or another related to it."