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Pop instead of symphonic metal: ex-“Sing meine Song” participant and Nightwish singer Floor Jansen is touring with a solo album.
Floor Jansen knows the big stages. She has been the singer of Nightwish since 2012, with the Finnish symphonic metal band she has played in huge halls and festivals. Last Saturday, the 42-year-old from the province of North Brabant faced a completely new challenge. Metallica opened their “M72 World Tour” in the Johan Cruyff Arena in Amsterdam – and Jansen was in the limelight as the opening act. However, not with Nightwish, but with solo material and a completely new band. “It’s going to be so huge, there are 50,000 people. I’m a bit nervous,” Jansen admits in an interview a few days before the performance.
At the beginning of April her first solo album “Paragon” was released with ten flawless pop songs that would not frighten anyone on format radio. “What I play now is very different from what I usually do. Let’s all hope it works for Metallica audiences.” A look at the comment columns of the relevant social media channels on Sunday showed that everything went smoothly.
Floor Jansen has gone through tough times
The concert marked another important point on the emotional rollercoaster of life that Floor Jansen has been on for the past few years. In 2019, the singer, who lives in Sweden with her husband Hannes van Dahl (drummer of the metal band Sabaton, editor’s note), also became known to a wider audience in her native Netherlands. “Then the invitation came for ‘De Beste zangers van Nederland’, meaning the Dutch ‘Sing my song’,” she recalls.
In 2021 she took part in the German equivalent on VOX before she was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2022. In November, however, after a successful operation, she was able to report that the tumor was completely removed and no metastases were found. Just a few days later, Nightwish went on a European tour – and in March, just before the release of “Paragon”, the singer wrote to her fans that she was expecting a second child. “Pregnancy is a very positive change in my life. I feel really good,” she says.
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Last Nightwish show for now
