Kiko Loureiro: It's easy to get along with Tarja

A-hah! We caught Kiko Loureiro, Angra's main man -with whom Tarja will have a special participation in Rock in Rio this September-, speaking about Tarja on the Dutch Progressive Rock Page. See, they ask her if Tarja is a "difficult woman" (a-hem a-hem, I think they meant diva) so let's see what is Kiko's answer.

MENNO: You played in Tarja Turunen’s live band: How did you get in touch with her? Did Mike Terrana (also drummer of Tarja’s live band) had anything to do with that? What was it like, is she a ‘difficult woman’?

KIKO: No, not at all! I did two tours with her and she is quite ‘simple’ and easy to get along with. She likes Angra music, especially the acoustic stuff I did and also foremost the acoustic stuff on my solo albums. So she invited me to do a bit of acoustic guitar on her first solo album. She has a German guitar player on that album but when he wasn’t available on her second tour, Tarja invited me to come along. And you are right: Mike told me a bit about her, that it was fun working with her and how well everything was organized so that certainly helped to make my decision to accept her invitation. Having the opportunity to play with her, the band and especially Max Lilja was awesome.

In the interview Kiko also reveals that he recently married a "Finnish beauty" and we can only suppose he means Maria Ilmoniemi, who was also keyboardists during Tarja's My Winter Storm Tour, and with whom he's had a relationship for quite some time now so, congratulations to Kiko, who thinks well of Finnish women :D


Source: DPRP