TARJA TURUNEN (ex-NIGHTWISH) has issued the following update:

"Hello my friends and regards from Antigua, the land of the sea and sun!

I only heard nice stories about Antigua, so I came to this beautiful Caribbean island 10 days ago searching for some warmness and peace.

I feel that the island has more to offer to me than only the relaxing feeling of being on holidays. I think I have fallen in love with it.

Seriously, the locals are very friendly, the landscapes including amazing amount of gorgeous beaches are wonderful, the underwater world is enchanting and the positive energy on the island makes me feel very good. I am gathering around some ideas to be able to spend more time here in the future…

The other reason to visit the island beside the geography was that my friends from Ibiza, Torsten and Angela are now living here! This creative couple is making music for many artists, both locals and international.

We have already written together 'The Reign' and 'Damned And Divine' so I decided to start the process for the follow up to My Winter Storm album NOW.

I have some ideas already for it and I am sure I am able to put them together with the help of Torsten and Angela. I am very happy to be able to start working for the next album already, even though there are still many concerts to come during 2008 to present MWS.

Next week I will continue doing more promotion for My Winter Storm and now is the time for USA and Japan where the album will be released very soon.

Thanks to my Finnish fans that made My Winter Storm reach Platinum sales in my homeland Finland! Is a very successful debut album that I am very proud of.

The video that we filmed in the show we performed in Kuusankoski last year is ready now and we’ll figure out the way to show it to you all soon."