Floor Jansen facts for kids
Quick facts for kids
Floor Jansen
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Jansen live with Nightwish in 2022 at Hellfest
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| Born | 21 February 1981 |
| Origin | Goirle, North Brabant, Netherlands |
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| Years active | 1997–present |
Floor Jansen (born 21 February 1981) is a talented Dutch singer and songwriter. She is best known as the lead singer of the famous Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.
Floor started her music career at just 16 years old. She first gained fame as the lead singer of the symphonic metal band After Forever, which she joined in 1997. After that band ended, she formed her own band called ReVamp. In 2012, she joined Nightwish as a touring singer and later became their full-time lead vocalist. She then decided to focus completely on Nightwish.
Floor has also worked with many other musicians and bands. She is part of the supergroup Star One and has sung on several albums for the Ayreon project. She also formed a hard rock duo called Northward with guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad.
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Floor Jansen's Music Journey
Starting with After Forever (1997–2009)
Floor Jansen was only sixteen when she joined the band Apocalypse in 1997. This band later became known as After Forever. Three years later, in 2000, the band released their first album, Prison of Desire. Floor helped write the band's songs and music. Before becoming a full-time musician, she also worked as a singing teacher.
In 2008, After Forever took a break because one of their bandmates was very tired from work. The band eventually decided to stop making music in 2009. Floor then announced she was writing new music with Jørn Viggo Lofstad. They would later release this music as Northward.
Forming ReVamp (2009–2016)
On 17 October 2009, Floor Jansen shared that her new band would be called ReVamp. The band's final members included Ruben Wijga on keyboards, Jaap Melman on bass, Jord Otto and Arjan Rijnen on guitars, and Matthias Landes on drums.
In 2011, ReVamp had to cancel a tour because Floor herself became very tired from work. Later, in 2012, Floor joined her former bandmate Mark Jansen for his band MaYan's tour in South America. ReVamp released their second album, Wild Card, in 2013.
ReVamp announced they were breaking up in September 2016. This was because Floor Jansen needed to focus on her work with Nightwish.
Joining Nightwish (2012–Present)
In 2012, the lead singer of Nightwish left the band. Floor Jansen stepped in to be their live lead singer for the rest of their Imaginaerum World Tour. Her first show with Nightwish was in Seattle in October.
On 9 October 2013, Nightwish officially announced that Floor Jansen was their new permanent lead singer. In 2015, Nightwish released their first studio album with Floor as the lead vocalist. It was called Endless Forms Most Beautiful. Their second album with her, Human. :II: Nature., came out in 2020. The third album, Yesterwynde, was released in 2024.
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Solo Career (2020–Present)
Floor Jansen performed her first solo concert in January 2020. She later confirmed in 2021 that she was working on her own solo album. She released her first solo song, "Fire," in March 2022. Other songs like "Storm" and "Me Without You" followed. Her album, called Paragon, was released on 24 March 2023.
In April 2023, Floor Jansen got to open for the famous band Metallica in Amsterdam. This happened at the last minute when another band couldn't perform.
Other Music Projects
Floor Jansen has worked on many exciting music projects. She has sung on three albums for Arjen Anthony Lucassen's project called Ayreon. She also plays a role in Lucassen's heavy metal supergroup Star One. She has been featured on their studio albums Space Metal and Victims of the Modern Age.
In 2013, she was announced as the main singer for the second album of former Stratovarius guitarist Timo Tolkki's metal opera project, Avalon. This album, Angels of the Apocalypse, was released in 2014.
In 2018, Northward, a hard rock project by Floor Jansen and Pagan's Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad, was announced. They had created the project in 2007 but were too busy to record. They finally recorded their album in 2017, and it was released in 2018. The album even features a song where Floor sings with her sister, Irene.
In 2019, Floor Jansen took part in a Dutch TV show called Beste Zangers. In one episode, she sang "The Phantom of the Opera" with classical singer Henk Poort. This song became very popular and reached number one on the Dutch music charts. She also won a special award called the Popprijs 2019 for her important contributions to Dutch pop music.
Floor Jansen's Life
Floor Jansen is a vegetarian. When she was a child, she wanted to be a biologist. Interestingly, she played a character called "The Biologist" on an Ayreon album.
In 2018, a new type of beetle was discovered and named Tmesisternus floorjansenae after her. This means she is the second Nightwish member to have a species named after them! In 2020, a new type of brittle star (a sea animal) was also named after her, called Ophiomitrella floorae.
Floor Jansen is over six feet tall. She has mentioned that she doesn't quite understand why people are so interested in her height.
Between 2014 and 2015, Floor lived in Joensuu, a city in Finland.
On 18 September 2016, it was announced that Floor and her husband, Sabaton drummer Hannes Van Dahl, were going to have their first child. Their daughter was born on 15 March 2017. On 20 October 2023, they welcomed their second daughter.
In October 2022, Floor Jansen shared that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer. She had surgery the next day, and two days later, she confirmed that the surgery went well. In November, she announced that she was free of cancer.
Singing Style and Training
Floor Jansen has a very wide singing range. She can sing in many different styles, from classical opera-like vocals to powerful, rougher sounds like screaming. She is a soprano singer, which means she can sing very high notes. Her vocal range covers more than three octaves.
Floor started studying music at the Dutch Rock Academy in 1999. Three years later, she went to the Conservatorium Tilburg, a music school. She studied musical theatre and even spent a year studying opera. After After Forever broke up, she started teaching singing in her own course called Wanna be a Star?!
She used to play the guitar, piano, and flute. She has completed several years of music studies.
Discography
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Studio albums
Live albums
After ForeverStudio albums
EPs
NightwishStudio albums
Live albums
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NorthwardStudio albums
ReVampStudio albums
Star OneStudio albums
Live albums
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Filmography
- Soaring Highs and Brutal Lows: The Voices of Women in Metal (2015)
See also
In Spanish: Floor Jansen para niños
