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He just won the Masked Singer Suomi (Finland) as Tohtori (doctor). It was very noticeable from the beginning who it was but hilarious to see Marko sing Backstreet Boys.
Marko was announced the winner of the Finnish version of The Masked Singer. He sang Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Gangsta's Paradise, Kiss (Prince) and Everybody (Backstreet Boys). He also covers Dio era Black Sabbath (in Finnish) with a band called Sapattivuosi. This guy is awesome!
Marko's voice is like sugar-coated razor blades. You never see it coming. Like Nightwish, Tarot doesn't block videos. They love the relationship that the army has with the reactors. It's all free advertising to them. I wish all bands were that smart.
Awesome reaction and probably my favorite Marko vocal performance is Nightwish covering high hopes by Pink Floyd live from their end of an era concert. Hopefully you'll get to it sooner or later.
If you want to get an idea of how Marko has progressed as a singer, I'd suggest watching watching the video they did for MTV: Headbangers Ball. It was done in 1986, I think. There's no denying these guys' talent. The fact that, in the '90s, he had an injury and was expected to never be able to sing professionally again is a testament to this.
Greetings from Finland & Merry Xmas. P.S. Sad to say that Tarot is no more as their drummer died in 2016 & in one interview Marko said that they most likely will not continue. But hey, we still have Nightwish.
Marko recently won Finland’s Masked Singer. I haven’t seen any reactions to this yet. He covers a variety of artists that you wouldn’t expect him to cover. Here he is doing Elton John’s Yellow Brick Road. m.th-cam.com/video/7IPEyOyl7f0/w-d-xo.html
I'm kinda used to Nightwish where he's folky and nice. Yeeeah, you definitely need few more songs to hear all he does with them. Phantom of the opera, while your lips are still red, yours is an empy hope will surely let you hear him whole, and not just the calm old man telling a story sitting around a fire. Anyway your reactions are amazing, a very good mix of technical opinions and astonished faces👏🏻
Marko has been doing this kind of grittier or balls to the wall type of singing since the early 80s so I am pretty sure he can now sing in a way that doesn't hurt his voice in the long run even if goes all out every once in awhile 👍🏼
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Metal "boy" band , Northern Kings - Take on me (A-ha cover) 2009 th-cam.com/video/GkHJRrMwmSQ/w-d-xo.html 3 min 38 sec . Camera work can be a bit disorienting on this clip ... vocalists Marco Hietala, Tony Kakko, Jarkko Ahola and Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto from bands Nightwish , Dreamtale , Sonata Arctica , Teräsbetoni , Charon , Tarot
He actually lost his ability to sing for a while after getting vocal Cord surgery. He got %70 of his singing ability back with the help of floor jansens coaching
Jeff the Coomer That’s not true. He got his operation as early as 1996. He had to learn how to speak and sing again back then. He got his woice back by heavy training, only lost his upper falsetto for good. Floor came to Nighwish at the end of 2012. Ofcourse she might have given him some tips since then.
Please, take look at 'Everybody Dies' by Ayreon, at least 3 singers you know, Hansi, Tommy and Mike. I think Arjen long ago said it wouldn't be possible to perform his music on stage. Luckily he reconsidered that later, this one was performed in Tilburg, think in 2017. Enjoy 😎😉
Marco sings with Jarkko Ahola in Northern Kings - a super cover group of four metal singers transforming everything to metal. Marco and Jarkko even released a duet Roisin Dubh on one of the albums, lol.
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For fun you should see the older version of this from the mid 80s.. no beard and a baby face before he had vocal cord surgery. If my information is correct the lead guitar player is his older brother
That Keyboadist is really cool dude, he worked at the local yuothcenter years ago,me and my firends sat at the same coffee table with him many times =)
Great non reaction 🤣 romanticide is a great song matko and floor go in 1 sentence 3 octaves up. (I am dutch so my english wrighting isn't so good) there are more song where marco has more grittier sound like ghost river
Listen to Marko singing on Slaying the Dreamer outro and you will $hit your pants. Poet and the Pendulum bridge is really aggressive too and The Greatest Show on Earth bridge his voice gets really wacky. Best are Dead to the World and Planet Hell though. Even his backing vocals in Ever Dream or Last Ride of the Day stand out SOOOO much.
According to Marco's autobiography, he lost his voice as a consequence of an unnecessary vocal cord surgery (polyp removal). The surgery took place in the 1990's and he had to learn to sing again. As a result, he lost his falsetto and still have some nerve damage causing difficulties to sync vocal folds. Floor has probably coached Marco at some point but probably not before 2013 and there's nothing about this coaching in the autobiography. Take a look at the original Wings of Darkness video from 1986; it's from a TV show and you can see every pixel: th-cam.com/video/HFXcvqgWkHw/w-d-xo.html
It might not have been so much of a great deal, but I would not be surprised, if Floor had coached Marco at some point. They are real good friends, she is so profound in her technique, seems to be a decent teacher and is a sweet person. It might not have been "saving his voice", but still... Why not help, if you can? I read somewhere, that she also coached Simone Simons, in the past. Don't know if that is true though.
Someone said -> "Marko had to have surgery 20 years ago when they found some lumps in his vocal folds. Because of that he had to re-learn singing and his voice changed." So maybe that has something to do with his singing?
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Indeed! Here, this is the, I believe, 1986 version of 'Wings of Darkness' with a slightly younger Marko... - th-cam.com/video/HFXcvqgWkHw/w-d-xo.html
@@NightwishArena Now I am curious. I was going by something I had read, too damned many years ago. That story included loss of a cord and having to relearn to sing. BUT, I can't find mention of it on the English resources. The only three Finnish words I 'know' are vulgar, so no hope there of searching Finnish resources for proper info... I will quietly shutup and slink away until I get better info. :)
@@williamklett6660 Lol, we don't have vulgar words in Finnish. They might be that outside of Finland, but here we use them in our daily basis since we learn to talk =P
I am guessing you haven’t reacted to too much Nightwish then, if you were blown away by this. Marco sings like this a lot with Nightwish and I believe that up until COVID lockdowns were put in place Nightwish had a record of never cancelling a show (even when Annette was rushed to hospital, you will need to watch “learn the set list in 48 hours” for that story). Marco has an Amazing vocal range and has an incredibly versatile voice too. He did have botched surgery on his vocal chords back in the early 90’s and I believe he re learnt how to sing again to the incredible level he still performs at today.
Thanks for the insight, Paul. I've been discovering Nightwish over the last few weeks. What a ride! Hope to see you at stream. I think you'd really fit in there!
@@CharlieCalottaReacts could you React to this Masked Singer Finland Tohtori (=Dr. Marko Hietala) - Gansta's Paradise th-cam.com/video/a9uKj2tA5zc/w-d-xo.html
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He just won the Masked Singer Suomi (Finland) as Tohtori (doctor). It was very noticeable from the beginning who it was but hilarious to see Marko sing Backstreet Boys.
playlist: th-cam.com/video/NQa8AuFLiTw/w-d-xo.html
And rapping Gangster's Paradise
Marko was announced the winner of the Finnish version of The Masked Singer. He sang Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, Gangsta's Paradise, Kiss (Prince) and Everybody (Backstreet Boys). He also covers Dio era Black Sabbath (in Finnish) with a band called Sapattivuosi. This guy is awesome!
Marko's voice is like sugar-coated razor blades. You never see it coming. Like Nightwish, Tarot doesn't block videos. They love the relationship that the army has with the reactors. It's all free advertising to them. I wish all bands were that smart.
"Sugar coated razor blades" is like the PERFECT DESCRIPTION
Agree 100%!
It's not the band that blocks the videos, it's the thrice-damned record labels.
@@geraldgetskow3420 Some bands do block, but you're right, it's mostly the labels. Fortunately Nuclear Blast doesn't.
@@Duskwind_ Some bands do not do business with labels that block.
Tides - Tarot Beautiful singing by Marko.
Tarot Tides. You can hear Marko’s voice on it’s best 🙏💚
Awesome reaction and probably my favorite Marko vocal performance is Nightwish covering high hopes by Pink Floyd live from their end of an era concert. Hopefully you'll get to it sooner or later.
What reaction??? lol thanks, Dave
If you want to get an idea of how Marko has progressed as a singer, I'd suggest watching watching the video they did for MTV: Headbangers Ball. It was done in 1986, I think. There's no denying these guys' talent. The fact that, in the '90s, he had an injury and was expected to never be able to sing professionally again is a testament to this.
...Tarot's "Tides" and "Guardian Angel" and "Things that crawl at night" are great too. The last two are great e g. in 'Tarot on ice consert' 🤗
check the 80's version :D
Marko is an amazing talent. Tarot is another wonderful band. Thanks for reacting to them.
Now go back to the original version and see how much they've all changed.
Oh I can't wait
yeah and marko original voice before doctor ruining that.
poet and the pendulum when you get to it will give you another taste of harsher marco vocals!
I've been told I am not ready hahaha
Greetings from Finland & Merry Xmas.
P.S. Sad to say that Tarot is no more as their drummer died in 2016 & in one interview Marko said that they most likely will not continue. But hey, we still have Nightwish.
And Marko on his own! I love Stones from his soloalbum!
Marko recently won Finland’s Masked Singer. I haven’t seen any reactions to this yet. He covers a variety of artists that you wouldn’t expect him to cover. Here he is doing Elton John’s Yellow Brick Road. m.th-cam.com/video/7IPEyOyl7f0/w-d-xo.html
OH WOW! We need to watch that on stream. Super fun!
I'm kinda used to Nightwish where he's folky and nice.
Yeeeah, you definitely need few more songs to hear all he does with them. Phantom of the opera, while your lips are still red, yours is an empy hope will surely let you hear him whole, and not just the calm old man telling a story sitting around a fire.
Anyway your reactions are amazing, a very good mix of technical opinions and astonished faces👏🏻
Haha I just try to be myself, Nicola. Thank you! I'm loving the experience of learning about this band and world
Marko has been doing this kind of grittier or balls to the wall type of singing since the early 80s so I am pretty sure he can now sing in a way that doesn't hurt his voice in the long run even if goes all out every once in awhile 👍🏼
Hell yeah
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Metal "boy" band , Northern Kings - Take on me (A-ha cover) 2009 th-cam.com/video/GkHJRrMwmSQ/w-d-xo.html 3 min 38 sec .
Camera work can be a bit disorienting on this clip ... vocalists Marco Hietala, Tony Kakko, Jarkko Ahola and Juha-Pekka Leppäluoto from bands Nightwish , Dreamtale , Sonata Arctica , Teräsbetoni , Charon , Tarot
He actually lost his ability to sing for a while after getting vocal
Cord surgery. He got %70 of his singing ability back with the help of floor jansens coaching
Jeff the Coomer
That’s not true. He got his operation as early as 1996. He had to learn how to speak and sing again back then. He got his woice back by heavy training, only lost his upper falsetto for good.
Floor came to Nighwish at the end of 2012. Ofcourse she might have given him some tips since then.
I mean voice.
That's Marco's brother on guitar.
Now you should watch the original 1986 video of Wings of Darkness. Marco is unrecognizable.
Please, take look at 'Everybody Dies' by Ayreon, at least 3 singers you know, Hansi, Tommy and Mike. I think Arjen long ago said it wouldn't be possible to perform his music on stage. Luckily he reconsidered that later, this one was performed in Tilburg, think in 2017. Enjoy 😎😉
Marco sings with Jarkko Ahola in Northern Kings - a super cover group of four metal singers transforming everything to metal. Marco and Jarkko even released a duet Roisin Dubh on one of the albums, lol.
Tommi "Tuple" Salmela is also af formidable singer. He has been performing with Tarot alot. He has also solo production.
check out Tarot's song "Tides" live... and see Tarot's other side
You really need to listen to him sing Pink Floyd High Hopes with Nightwish. It is spectacular!
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For fun you should see the older version of this from the mid 80s.. no beard and a baby face before he had vocal cord surgery. If my information is correct the lead guitar player is his older brother
You should also check out "Tides" by Tarot, live from Undead Indeed!
Marko is AMAZING.
Aw thanks! And I totally agree!
Tarot since 1982 together with his brother
The islander live at tampere is the one to watch 👌
He's already done that one.
That Keyboadist is really cool dude, he worked at the local yuothcenter years ago,me and my firends sat at the same coffee table with him many times =)
My absolute favourite Tarot song is their live version of Rider Of The Last Day.
Dude this band is lit
Listen Marko in Masked Singer , Tohtori : Ganstas Paradise 😅😅
Marko's voice is amazing
marko singing like he should always sing :) thanx to great reaction and your music taste is suburb :)
Old school Marco. Tarot.
Great non reaction 🤣 romanticide is a great song matko and floor go in 1 sentence 3 octaves up. (I am dutch so my english wrighting isn't so good) there are more song where marco has more grittier sound like ghost river
Can't wait to hear it! I heard from the NW Army that I need to do my research first
You should check out the origonal video when marco had 80s Hetfield hair
Must be a lot of out of business barbers in Finland.
Guitarist looks like Ozzy.
Wait 'til you hear Master Passion Greed (or have you?).
That guitarist is Zachary Hietala, Marco‘s brother!
Listen to Marko singing on Slaying the Dreamer outro and you will $hit your pants.
Poet and the Pendulum bridge is really aggressive too and The Greatest Show on Earth bridge his voice gets really wacky.
Best are Dead to the World and Planet Hell though.
Even his backing vocals in Ever Dream or Last Ride of the Day stand out SOOOO much.
Do "Ave Maria" with Marko and Floor.... A Christmas special 🎅
It'll be out this week :)
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Can't wait!
Tarot - Pyre of gods 🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great reaction 👍👍
The guitar player in this video is Marko’s older brother.
According to Marco's autobiography, he lost his voice as a consequence of an unnecessary vocal cord surgery (polyp removal). The surgery took place in the 1990's and he had to learn to sing again. As a result, he lost his falsetto and still have some nerve damage causing difficulties to sync vocal folds. Floor has probably coached Marco at some point but probably not before 2013 and there's nothing about this coaching in the autobiography. Take a look at the original Wings of Darkness video from 1986; it's from a TV show and you can see every pixel: th-cam.com/video/HFXcvqgWkHw/w-d-xo.html
Little correction. Marko lost his clean falsetto, not the whole falsetto.
The stories about Floor coaching Marko exist only in youtube comments and fantasies of fans.
It might not have been so much of a great deal, but I would not be surprised, if Floor had coached Marco at some point.
They are real good friends, she is so profound in her technique, seems to be a decent teacher and is a sweet person.
It might not have been "saving his voice", but still... Why not help, if you can?
I read somewhere, that she also coached Simone Simons, in the past. Don't know if that is true though.
@@rockaddicthamburg8599 I read that Floor and Simone were studying with one teacher, but never about Floor coaching Simone.
@@soon_to_emerge THX for the info
Someone said -> "Marko had to have surgery 20 years ago when they found some lumps in his vocal folds. Because of that he had to re-learn singing and his voice changed." So maybe that has something to do with his singing?
Between Tarot and Nightwish he had failed vocal surgery and lost his high range... I know... right?
It's a voice filled with history. And he's made it work :)
@@CharlieCalottaReacts Indeed! Here, this is the, I believe, 1986 version of 'Wings of Darkness' with a slightly younger Marko... - th-cam.com/video/HFXcvqgWkHw/w-d-xo.html
@@williamklett6660 He only lost his *clean* falsetto. Afaik, he didn't lost his range. If you know better, please educate me =)
@@NightwishArena Now I am curious. I was going by something I had read, too damned many years ago. That story included loss of a cord and having to relearn to sing. BUT, I can't find mention of it on the English resources. The only three Finnish words I 'know' are vulgar, so no hope there of searching Finnish resources for proper info... I will quietly shutup and slink away until I get better info. :)
@@williamklett6660 Lol, we don't have vulgar words in Finnish. They might be that outside of Finland, but here we use them in our daily basis since we learn to talk =P
I am guessing you haven’t reacted to too much Nightwish then, if you were blown away by this.
Marco sings like this a lot with Nightwish and I believe that up until COVID lockdowns were put in place Nightwish had a record of never cancelling a show (even when Annette was rushed to hospital, you will need to watch “learn the set list in 48 hours” for that story).
Marco has an Amazing vocal range and has an incredibly versatile voice too.
He did have botched surgery on his vocal chords back in the early 90’s and I believe he re learnt how to sing again to the incredible level he still performs at today.
Thanks for the insight, Paul. I've been discovering Nightwish over the last few weeks. What a ride! Hope to see you at stream. I think you'd really fit in there!
Unfortunately Marko’s voice never returned the same after the operation. He lost his clean falsetto.
React to Tarots ashes to the stars and do you wanna live forever!
Hi You should react to this song in 1986. The one in1986 was before his botched nodule surgery
The guitar player, is zacharias hietala, marko's brother
" folky and nice" lol
just come across your vod so not sure if you have already but you should check out I Walk forever by Tarot
watch him sing Pyre of Gods LIVE. it's better than the studio. I went to a Tarot concert and almost sh*t myself.
Nice Nice Nice!
you shouldve reacted to the original, its crazy
Twitch chat suggested this. Absolutely awesome!
you think this is sick should listen to his version of this from the 80's
He as good Singer as Floor, but he has different part to sing in Nightwish.
I'm slowly realizing this! Thank you!
@@CharlieCalottaReacts could you React to this
Masked Singer Finland
Tohtori (=Dr. Marko Hietala) - Gansta's Paradise
th-cam.com/video/a9uKj2tA5zc/w-d-xo.html