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Floor Jansen - Singing with After Forever |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Floor Jansen |
| Born | 21 February 1981 |
| Origin | Netherlands |
| Genres | Symphonic metal, progressive metal |
| Occupations | Musician, songwriter, teacher |
| Instruments | Vocals, guitar, piano, flute |
| Years active | 1997–present |
| Labels | Nuclear Blast Records |
| Associated acts | After Forever ReVamp Ayreon Star One |
| Website | Official Floor Jansen Site |
Floor Jansen (pronounced [flɔr ˈjɑnsɛn]; born 21 February 1981, Goirle) is a Dutch singer, who was the lead singer of the symphonic metal band After Forever which disbanded in 2009, and is the current singer for ReVamp.
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Jansen was sixteen when she joined Apocalypse (the name of the band After Forever in its early days) in 1997. Three years later the band released its first album, Prison Of Desire. Floor's ability to sing both classical and rock music have made her reasonably popular in the metal scene. She took sole charge of After Forever's lyrics and vocal melodies since the departure of Mark Jansen (no relation) in 2002.[1] Prior to this, up until the Decipher album, the two would write together.
Floor started studying music at the Dutch Rock Academy in 1999 and entered the conservatory three years later. She studied Musical Theatre and one year of Opera. Later on, she started teaching performing in her own course called Wanna be a Star?!.
Floor plays the guitar, piano and flute and has completed several years of music studies, and has a dramatic soprano vocal range.
Three albums by the Dutch composer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen include guest vocals from Floor. She sang one song on Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer, made a number of contributions to the Star One project and plays the character Ω in the Ayreon album 01011001. She is the older sister of fellow singer and Ayreon guest vocalist Irene Jansen, who played "Passion" on The Human Equation. She has also been a guest for the metal band Nightmare.
Because of the burn-out that After Forever bandmate Sander Gommans underwent, the band took a year off starting in January 2008 but ultimately decided to call it quits in February 2009. Floor posted on her website that while After Forever was on hold (and since then disbanded), she would use this opportunity to start writing music with Jorn Viggo Lofstad (Pagan's Mind, Jørn Lande) for a new musical project.[2] On 16 June 2009, Floor announced through her Myspace site that she had started a new metal band, which has put her project with Jorn Viggo from Pagan's Mind (called Sinh) on hold. On 17 October 2009, Floor Jansen announced via Myspace that the name of her new band was ReVamp.[3] ReVamp contains former After Forever keyboardist Joost van den Broek, bassplayer Jaap Melman formerly of Dreadlock Pussy,[4] and guitarist Waldemar Sorychta of Grip Inc., Voodoocult, and Eyes of Eden fame as songwriters and producers.[5] In August 2011 Van Canto announced on Facebook that ReVamp would no longer participate in their "Out of the Dark" Tour, as Floor Jansen suffered a burnout herself.[6]
Floor joined the Latin American MaYan tour performing in Sao Paulo. Just after the tour Floor post a blog annoucing that ReVamp will be making a second album and will be performing with Epica in January 2012.
With After ForeverStudio albums
EPs
Singles
Demos
Compilations
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With Ayreon
With Star One
With ReVamp
With MaYaN
With Devin Townsend Project
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| New title | Vocalist for After Forever 1995–2009 |
Disbanded |
| Vocalist for ReVamp since 2009 |
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