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Simone Simons
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Dutch singer
OverviewAI-generated
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
via Wikipedia infobox
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
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
Simone Johanna Maria Simons (born 17 January 1985) is a Dutch singer. She is best known for being the lead singer of Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, which she joined at the age of seventeen, releasing nine studio albums and touring the world. In her singing career, she has also collaborated with bands such as Kamelot, Leaves' Eyes, Primal Fear, Ayreon, and Angra. She also has a side pursuit as a lifestyle blogger, via her website SmoonStyle.
Early life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Simone Simons” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.