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Simone Simons is a Dutch female singer, lyricist, musician, and songwriter. Born in Hoensbroek in 1985, she holds citizenship in the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She is a member of the band Epica and has been active since 2002. Her musical genres include symphonic metal and gothic metal. She performs as a soprano using her voice as an instrument.
Simons speaks and writes in Dutch. Her given names are Simone, Johanna, and Maria. She is married to Oliver Palotai. Her record label is Nuclear Blast. Additional tags associated with her work include progressive metal and female vocalists.
Synthesized by Vinony from 23 facts across 3 sources: Wikidata, MusicBrainz, Last.fm. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1985
Discography
- Aeterna2024
- In Love We Rust2024
- R.E.D.2024
- Vermillion2024
Member of
- Epicasince 2003
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14,063
- Total plays
- 211,946
Tags
Simone Johanna Maria Simons (born January 17, 1985) is a Dutch mezzo-soprano singer who is the lead vocalist of symphonic metal band Epica. Simons had an interest for music ever since the age of 10, and after listening to the Nightwish album Oceanborn at the age of 15, she began taking classical singing lessons. She sang in a choir for a couple of months in 2002, joining Epica soon after. She was previously in a romantic relationship with Epica guitarist Mark Jansen and also writes most of the
Key facts
- Born
- Simone Johanna Maria Simons , ( 1985-01-17 ) 17 January 1985 (age 41) , Hoensbroek , Limburg , Netherlands
- Genres
- Symphonic metal , classical , progressive metal
- Occupations
- Singer, songwriter
- Years active
- 2002–present
- Member of
- Epica
- Spouse
- Oliver Palotai ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 2013 )
- Website
- Epica Official Blog Personal Website
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maria
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Kingdom of the Netherlands
- Place of birth
- Hoensbroek
- Spouse
- Oliver Palotai
- Occupation
- lyricist
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Genre
- symphonic metal
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Nuclear Blast
- Official website
- www.simonesimons.com
- Image
- Simone Simons, 2018 (cropped).jpg
- Voice type
- soprano
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- Commons category
- Simone Simons
- date of birth
- 1985-01-17
- Commons gallery
- Simone Simons
- member of
- Epica
- start of work period
- 2002-00-00
- web feed URL
- www.smoonstyle.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss
- social media followers
- 133620
- name in native language
- Simone Simons
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Article · Español
Simone Johanna Maria Simons (Heerlen, Limburgo, Países Bajos, 17 de enero de 1985) conocida artísticamente como Simone Simons, es una cantante, compositora, empresaria, modelo, influencer y bloguera neerlandesa. Es la voz principal de la banda neerlandesa de metal sinfónico Epica, a la cual ingresó en el año 2002 con tan solo 17 años de edad, a partir de allí ha lanzado con la agrupación ocho álbumes de estudio y ha realizado giras mundiales. Además en su carrera como cantante ha colaborado con bandas como Primal Fear, Angra, Leaves' Eyes, MaYaN y Kamelot con la cual no solo participó en muchos de sus álbumes sino que también acompañó a la banda en una gira en 2011, su marido Oliver Palotai es el teclista de la banda kamelot. También ha compartido escenario con cantantes como Cristina Scabbia, Floor Jansen, Fabio Lione, Tommy Karevik, entre otros. En 2016 la revista estadounidense Revolver posicionó a Simone en el puesto No.11 de las mujeres más sexys del Hard Rock y Heavy Metal.
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