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{{Short description|Finnish musical artist (born 1978)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=May 2025}} {{BLP sources|date=June 2010}} {{Infobox musical artist <!-- See Wikipedia:WikiProject Musicians --> | name = Jukka Nevalainen | image = Jukka Nevalainen - Ilosaarirock 2013.jpg | landscape = yes | background = non_vocal_instrumentalist | birth_name = Jukka Antero Nevalainen | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|df=yes|1978|4|21}} | origin = [[Kitee|Kitee, Finland]] | instrument = Drums, percussion, keyboards | genre = [[Symphonic metal]], [[power metal]] | occupation = Drummer, musician | years_active = 1993β2019 | current_member_of = | past_member_of = {{Hlist|[[Nightwish]]|Sethian}} }} '''Jukka Antero "Julius" Nevalainen''' (born 21 April 1978, in [[Kitee]], Finland) is the former drummer of the Finnish [[symphonic metal]] band [[Nightwish]].<ref name="Huey">{{cite web|url={{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p373181/biography|pure_url=yes}}|title=Biography: Nightwish|last=Huey|first=Steve|publisher=AllMusic|access-date=11 June 2010}}</ref> == Personal life == He spent his early years in the city of [[Kitee]]. His music teacher at school told him that a new educational program for music was opening, and he thought Nevalainen would fit in well as a drummer. He lacked a suitable place to practice so he made do at his home. His first band was "The Highway" but he joined his first real band at the age of 15β16. The band had a rehearsal place, but was restricted to practice only a couple of days a week. After he left that band, he joined up with [[Emppu Vuorinen]] and they got a permanent practice place.{{Citation needed|reason=Entire paragraph needs verifiable sources|date=May 2018}} Nevalainen and Vuorinen played together in bands Ambrosia and Nidhro't before Nightwish. Nevalainen lives with his wife Satu, daughter Luna (born in 2003) and son Niki (born on 19 December 2005) in [[Joensuu]], Finland. His second daughter, Lara, was born on 22 June 2010. He is a vegetarian.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.nightwish.com/en/community/nightmail?month=09&year=2006|title=Nightwish β the official website|access-date=2009-03-29|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110624015705/http://www.nightwish.com/en/community/nightmail?month=09&year=2006|archive-date=2011-06-24}}</ref> ==Career== After the early years of the band, Nevalainen got a new professional drum kit. He used that kit from the album ''[[Wishmaster (album)|Wishmaster]]'' to the end of the ''[[Once (Nightwish album)|Once]]'' world tour in 2005. He was endorsed by [[Tama Drums|Tama drums]], [[Paiste]] cymbals and [[Pro-Mark]] sticks. He was in a side-project, Sethian, which is now completely dormant because of band members being busy with other bands.{{Citation needed|reason=entire paragraph needs verifiable sources|date=May 2018}} On 6 August 2014, it was announced that Nevalainen would not be able to take part of Nightwish's eighth album and its subsequent tour due to [[insomnia]],<ref name=jukkaleft>{{cite web|title=Nightwish Drummer Jukka Nevalainen Forced To Take Break From Band Due To Health Issues|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-drummer-jukka-nevalainen-forced-to-take-break-from-band-due-to-health-issues/|website=[[Blabbermouth.net]]|access-date=6 August 2014|date=6 August 2014}}</ref> thus making the album ''[[Endless Forms Most Beautiful (album)|Endless Forms Most Beautiful]]'' the first Nightwish recording without his participation. Nevalainen still handled the day-to-day affairs of the band, though.<ref name=jukkaleft/> [[Kai Hahto]] ([[Wintersun]]) took his place in the album and on the subsequent tour.<ref name=jukkaleft/> He returned to perform one song during their unofficial 20th-anniversary concert in August 2016 at Himos Park in JΓ€msΓ€, Finland.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwish-rejoined-by-drummer-jukka-nevalainen-at-unofficial-20th-anniversary-concert-video/#0KawZr7qJA2RPYeQ.99|title = NIGHTWISH Rejoined by Drummer JUKKA NEVALAINEN at Unofficial 20th-Anniversary Concert (Video)|date = 22 August 2016}}</ref> In July 2019, Nevalainen released a statement that he was not going to return to Nightwish and that he would continue working with the band behind the scenes, and that Hahto would become the band's new permanent drummer.<ref name=kainightwish>{{cite web|url=http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/nightwishs-jukka-nevalainen-officially-exits-band-kai-hahto-named-permanent-drummer/|title=NIGHTWISH's JUKKA NEVALAINEN Officially Exits Band; KAI HAHTO Named Permanent Drummer|publisher=Blabbermouth|date=15 July 2019|access-date=15 July 2019}}</ref> ==Discography== ===Nightwish=== '''Studio albums:''' * ''[[Angels Fall First]]'' (1997) * ''[[Oceanborn]]'' (1998) * ''[[Wishmaster (album)|Wishmaster]]'' (2000) * ''[[Century Child]]'' (2002) * ''[[Once (Nightwish album)|Once]]'' (2004) * ''[[Dark Passion Play]]'' (2007) * ''[[Imaginaerum]]'' (2011) '''Live albums and EPs:''' * ''[[From Wishes to Eternity]]'' (2000) * ''[[Over the Hills and Far Away (EP)|Over the Hills and Far Away]]'' (2001) * ''[[End of Innocence (Nightwish)|End of Innocence]]'' (2003) * ''[[End of an Era (Nightwish album)|End of an Era]]'' (2006) * ''[[Made in Hong Kong (And in Various Other Places)]]'' (2009) * ''[[Showtime, Storytime]]'' (2013) ===Sethian=== '''Studio albums:''' * ''Into the Silence'' (2003) ==References== {{Reflist}} ===Sources=== *{{cite book |title=[[Once Upon a Nightwish]] |last=Ollila |first=Mape |publisher=Deggael Communications |year=2007 |isbn=978-952-99749-2-4}} * {{cite book |last1=Isoaho |first1=Timo |title=Nightwish β We Were Here |date=2018 |publisher=Deggael Communications |location=Latvia |isbn=978-952-99749-3-1 |edition=English}} == External links == * [http://www.nightwish.com Nightwish Official Site] {{commons|Jukka Nevalainen}} {{Nightwish}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Nevalainen, Jukka}} [[Category:Nightwish members]] [[Category:Finnish heavy metal drummers]] [[Category:1978 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:People from Kitee]] [[Category:21st-century Finnish drummers]]
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