Former NIGHTWISH vocalist Anette Olzon recently spoke with CNN about balancing her singing career with her day job as a nurse in a maternity ward.
“I always wanted to help people and work with something that gives me something on the inside,” she said (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET). “I’m a registered nurse. So I started studying and got a bachelor’s degree. It took me some years. And I’ve been working with that for three years now. And I feel that it’s a good complement — it’s a good complement to do music and to do another work. I believe it’s good for us to see other things. I’m working with newborn babies at the maternity ward, so it’s really a very nice job.”
Olzon originally joined NIGHTWISH in 2007 and recorded two albums with the band until she was fired in 2012 in the middle of the group’s North American tour. Olzon would claim her termination was due to her wanting to postpone an Australian tour due to pregnancy, something the band would firmly deny. She would be replaced by former AFTER FOREVER singer and current frontwoman Floor Jansen.
Anette’s second solo album, “Strong”, was released on September 10 via Frontiers Music Srl.
