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Goirle, North Brabant, Netherlands
Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer, songwriter and vocal performer best known as the lead vocalist of the Finnish symphonic-metal band Nightwish. Born on 21 February 1981 in Goirle, the Netherlands, she developed an interest in music and performing while still young. Her formal training included studies at the Rock Academy in Tilburg, followed by work in musical theatre and opera. She later shared…
Known for
- Floor Jansen Live at Wacken '25 — Vocals2025
- Nightwish - Virtual Live Show From the Islanders Arms 2021 — Vocals2022
- Nightwish - Au Hellfest 2022 — Vocals2022
- Nightwish: Live at PinkPop — Self — Lead vocals2022
- Nightwish: Live at Hellfest 20222022
- Floor Jansen: Live in Amsterdam — Herself – Vocals2021
- Nightwish - An Evening with Nightwish In a Virtual World — Self2021
- On Stage2021
- Nightwish: Decades (Live in Buenos Aires) — Herself - Lead Vocals2019
- Heavy Christmas Concert in Hartwall Arena Helsinki 2017 — Singer2019
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1981-02-21 ) 21 February 1981 (age 45)
- Origin
- Goirle , North Brabant , Netherlands
- Genres
- Symphonic metal power metal progressive metal hard rock thrash metal gothic metal
- Occupation
- Singer
- Years active
- 1997–present
- Member of
- Nightwish Northward Star One
- Formerly of
- After Forever ReVamp
- Website
- floorjansen .com
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Jansen
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Goirle
- Spouse
- Hannes Van Dahl
- Sibling
- Irene Jansen
- Occupation
- recording artist
- Educated at
- Fontys School of the Arts
- Languages spoken
- Finnish
- Native language
- Dutch
- Genre
- symphonic metal
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Nuclear Blast
- Official website
- www.floorjansen.com
- Image
- Floor Jansen - Wacken 2025 -Day 4 (15) (55110695148) (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
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- Commons category
- Floor Jansen
- date of birth
- 1981-02-21
- member of
- Raskasta Joulua
- social media followers
- 157856
- name in native language
- Floor Jansen
- start of work period
- 1997-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
Floor Jansen ( Dutch pronunciation: [ˈfloːr ˈjɑnsə(n)]; born 21 February 1981) is a Dutch singer . She is the third and current lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
Jansen was the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band After Forever from 1997, when she joined at age 16, to their disbanding in 2009. When the band disbanded, she formed ReVamp and has released two albums with them. In 2012, following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerum World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2018, she and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad premiered their hard rock duo Northward.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Floor Jansen” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.