Sami Vänskä

Sami Vänskä (born September 26, 1976 ) is a Finnish bass player .

Career

Sami Vänskä taught himself to play bass and played in various bands. In 1994 he was one of the founding members of the Gothic / Doom Metal band Nattvindens Gråt , with whom he released two albums. The band finally broke up in 1997. In the meantime, the keyboardist of Nattvindens Gråt Tuomas Holopainen had founded the symphonic metal band Nightwish . Before recording their second studio album Oceanborn , Holopainen brought Vänskä into his new band, with whom he released two studio albums. In 2001 Vänskä had to leave the band after a difference of opinion between him and Holopainen. In addition, Holopainen accused Vänskä that his interest in the band would wane. Vänskä, who was replaced by Marco Hietala , then concentrated on the blues rock band Root Remedy . With this band he released three studio albums before he left the band in 2008 and has not been musically active since.

Discography

with Nattvindens Gråt

1995: A Bard's Tale
1997: Chaos Without Theory

with Nightwish

with Root Remedy

1999: Medication Time With ...
2003: Root Remedy
2006: The Crawler

Individual evidence

↑ biography. Nightwish, accessed April 11, 2015 .

personal data
SURNAME	Vänskä, Sami
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Finnish bass player
DATE OF BIRTH	September 26, 1976

[1] biography. Nightwish, accessed April 11, 2015 .


Studio albums	Angels Fall First • Oceanborn • Wishmaster • Century Child • Once • Dark Passion Play • Imaginaerum • Endless Forms Most Beautiful • Human. : II: Nature.
Extended plays	Over the Hills and Far Away
Soundtracks	Imaginaerum: The Score
Compilation albums	Tales from the Elvenpath • Highest Hopes • BestWishes • The Sound of Nightwish Reborn • Lokikirja
Video albums	From Wishes to Eternity • End of Innocence • End of an Era • Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places) • Showtime, Storytime
Singles	Storytime • The Crow, the Owl and the Dove • Élan