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Floor Jansen

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Also known as Floor E. M. Jansen

Dutch singer

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Floor Jansen is a female artist from the Netherlands. Her musical genres include metal and symphonic metal. She began her work period in 1997.

According to available data, she has five recorded works. Her official website is floorjansen.com. On Last.fm, she has 40,667 listeners and a playcount of 901,595. Associated tags for her music include symphonic metal, Female fronted metal, Better than Tarja, dutch, and netherlands.

Jansen was born on February 21, 1981. She has 239,000 social media followers. Her profile is referenced by 193 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 16 facts across 5 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
Netherlands
Active from
1981-02-21
metalsymphonic metal

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
40,667
Total plays
901,595

Tags

symphonic metalFemale fronted metalBetter than Tarjadutchnetherlands

Floor Jansen, born on February 21, 1981 in Goirle, Netherlands, was the lead singer of the Dutch band After Forever from 1997 until their split in 2009. She is the older sister of fellow singer and Ayreon guest vocalist Irene Jansen, who played "Passion" on The Human Equation. Floor was sixteen when she joined After Forever in 1997 and the band released its first album, Prison of Desire, three years later. Floor's ability to sing in styles native to both classical and rock music have made her p

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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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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.

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