Anne Maartjana Nurmi was born on August 22nd, 1968, in Finland.

Since she was a child was guided to the musical world for her parents, in this way, at an early age she went to different church's choir groups, studied the basic of keyboards and learned different symphonies.

In 1987, she and Jyrki formed a band called "Noidat", later called "Two Witches", which at that time was one of the few gothic bands existing in Finland. After different alignments and looking for members that would express the same musical attitude they had, finally in 1989 Nauku and Toby joined to them, forming the "Two Witches" alignment until Anne left the band.

In 1990, "Two Witches" appeared in the EP Sampler of a unknown magazine with only one song. In October of the same year, they played in Denmark, Germany and Italy performing their first European Tour named "The Witches Are Burning Tour". The alignment for this tour was formed by Anne, Jyrki, Nauku, Toby, Ari y Juhato. Later, on December they performed in Finland heading "The Greater Gothic Festival" and it is important to point out that this kind of fest was never been done before especially for gothic music.

In 1993, was released their first album titled "The Vampire Kiss", under "Cleopatra Records" stamp, and at the same time the band appears in two compilation CDs. On October, the Finnish magazine "City" granted them with the title of "The Best Band of the Year". On the same month, is released their third CD called “Phaeriemagick”, starting their European tour under the same name, in which they visited Finland, Germany and Slovakia.

After finishing the tour with their alignment, Anne supported a German band called "Lacrimosa" in its promotional tour, under request of its vocals. However, Tilo Wolff was convinced of the Anne’s good work during the tour, and invited her to be a permanent member of the band, that as we know Anne accepted.

"It is hard to leave "Two Witches" since I helped to form that band, but I am absolutely sure that my place is in Lacrimosa". (Words said by Anne Nurmi when she left "Two Witches").

Finally, on 1994, with the release of the single "Schakal", Anne is finally joined to Lacrimosa, being an important part for the band, in which we can notice a great touch of sensuality that is a particular characteristic of Anne. Later, with "Inferno", edited in 1995, we can notice that Anne Nurmi’s quality is showed with more strength and style, giving the band a new perspective that is not the best for many people.