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This is my piano cover of Sleeping Sun from the 1999 Nightwish album, Oceanborn. Learn piano online: Support me on Patreon: Facebook: Twitter: My website: Patreon: Sleeping Sun is a favourite of Nightwish Fans - one of the beautiful ballads from Oceanborn by Nightwish. Music by Tuomas Holopainen Originally performed by Nightwish The title, Sleeping Sun, refers to the solar eclipse over Europe that occurred in 1999. Oceanborn was the second album by Nightwish and this song is from before they made it big - you can hear the “innocence“ as Tuomas Holopainen, songwriter of Nightwish, says. This album featured the original singer of Nightwish, Tarja Turunen, as lead vocalist. Her operatic style was a signature sound for the band and she really soars in Sleeping Sun. When I visited Finland in 2016 for the Kitee International Music and Art Festival in the hometown of Nightwish, I met Tuomas Holopainen's mother and I learned that Sleeping Sun is a favourite of hers - her very favourite song by her son's band. In the photo at the end of this video is myself, Tuomas Holopainen's mother Kiti Holopainen, and Plamen Dimov. Plamen is a very important person to the history of Nightwish as he was the band members' music mentor, still maintaining a close association with the band to this day. So I hope that you enjoy this video - Sleeping Sun by Nightwish on piano! Thank you to my patrons on Patreon for voting for Sleeping Sun as my next Nightwish piano cover! I will be doing more and more Nightwish covers and you can vote for them if you become a patron on Patreon! Patrons receive the sheet music and mp3s to all of my videos as I release them. Previous Nightwish video: Slaying the Dreamer by Nightwish Tags: Sleeping Sun Piano | Nightwish Piano | Sleeping Sun | Andrew Wrangell | Nightwish Sleeping Sun | Tuomas Holopainen | Tarja Turunen Thank you to my fantastic patrons for supporting this video! Frode Thorup Thomsen Oliver Gut Adam Gammie Braden Ehrat Marcus Mikhail Delia Vagner Jared Hussey Julia Januario Sonja Staubli Alexandru Stan Tom Dodd Vitaly Savalya Christian Halberstadt Andrea Berger Cairan Finnerty Ben Rude josia orava General Misology Julian Dean Anevis Nathan Becker John Stephen Komer Dan Lynds Linus Flury Štěpán Lammel David Eiblmeier Noelle La Fetra Tim Oosterwijk Matthias Fauconneau Luisa Balzert Anissa Ivone Frisoni Mehdi Matthew Law Sunny van Zijst Elisa Bistocchi Kirstie Campbell Amber Day Mason Janczak Iselle Benjamin Parry Eva Nordman Ben Ghaner Pékh Bulcsú Jannick Fröse Anton Eliasson ChildOfMoonlight Fabian Balzer Lepinay Nicolas Michael Hlas Sleeping Sun lyrics: The sun is sleeping quietly Once upon a century Wistful oceans calm and red Ardent caresses laid to rest For my dreams I hold my life For wishes I behold my night The truth at the end of time Losing faith makes a crime I wish for this night-time to last for a lifetime The darkness around me Shores of a solar sea Oh how I wish to go down with the sun Sleeping Weeping With you Sorrow has a human heart From my god it will depart I’d sail before a thousand moons Never finding where to go Two hundred twenty-two days of light Will be desired by a night A moment for the poet’s play Until there’s nothing left to say I wish for this night-time… I wish for this night-time…
