History Music / FloorJansen

She currently lives outside Gothenburg, UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} with her husband Hannes Van Dahl (drummer for Music/{{Sabaton}}), their daughter Freyja, and several horses, cats, and dogs. Her younger sister Irene Jansen also sings and has performed with her on several occasions. She's also old friends with former Nightwish vocalist Music/TarjaTurunen and with several members of Music/{{Epica}}, which former bandmate Mark Jansen and his then-girlfriend Simone Simons formed after he left After Forever.

* GenreRoulette: While she's best known as a SymphonicMetal singer, she also loves HardRock and is trained in classical and musical theater performance. In her appearances on ''Beste Zangers'' she sang covers of everything from "Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera" to "Shallow" by Music/LadyGaga. "Fire" is an IndiePop number with orchestral backing.

* OneWomanWail: The "Floorgasm", which is particularly used to refer to the extended vocalization that closes off her perfomances of "Ghost Love Score".

* untitled solo album (2023)

In 2021, she announced she was working on a solo album. Her first-ever solo single [[https://youtu.be/Utz4gFG3HF8 "Fire"]] was released on 25 March 2022.

* untitled solo album (2022?)

After releasing [=ReVamp's=] SelfTitledAlbum, Floor herself began suffering from burnout. She took 2011 off to recover, and in 2012 she was at her sister Irene's wedding when she got the call that would catapult her to superstardom. Music/{{Nightwish}}, whom she had previously met while touring with After Forever, had dismissed their then-vocalist Music/AnetteOlzon mid-tour and needed a replacement in a hurry. Floor flew out to meet them in California and had to learn the full setlist in the two days before the next show on the tour. The tour culminated in a headlining set at Wacken Open Air; her performance of "Ghost Love Score" from that show has become her SignatureSong. Initially she was planned to only be a fill-in vocalist, but after the tour, the band asked her to stay on full time. The demands of her career with Nightwish unfortunately eventually led to [=ReVamp=] being disbanded.

!! Music/{{Nightwish}}:

* CostumePorn: Floor's stage outfits with Music/{{Nightwish}} have gotten progressively more extravagant over the years.

** ''Prison of Desire'' (2000)
** ''Decipher'' (2001)
** ''Exordium'' (EP, 2003)
** ''Invisible Circles'' (2004)
** ''Remagine'' (2005)
** ''After Forever'' (2007)

** ''[=ReVamp=]'' (2010)
** ''Wild Card'' (2013)

** ''Endless Forms Most Beautiful'' (2015)
** ''Human. :II: Nature'' (2020)

In 2019 she participated in the Dutch singing competition TV show ''Beste Zangers''; the single version of her performance of "Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera" with Henk Poort (the originator of the role of Eric in the Netherlands) reached #1 on the Dutch music charts.

In 2021, she announced she was working on a solo album.

* GenreRoulette: While she's best known as a SymphonicMetal singer, she also loves HardRock and is trained in classical and musical theater performance. In her appearances on ''Beste Zangers'' she sang covers of everything from "Theatre/ThePhantomOfTheOpera" to "Shallow" by Music/LadyGaga.

* OneWomanWail: The FanNickname[[invoked]] for them is the "Floorgasm". This is particularly used to refer to the extended vocalization that closes off her perfomances of "Ghost Love Score".

* StatuesqueStunner: At 6'1" barefoot, Floor is taller than most of her male bandmates, and [[https://www.loudersound.com/features/floor-jansen-people-dont-get-to-dictate-what-they-want-from-me she's been known to use it to intimidate hecklers.]] It led to fandom jokes when Music/{{Wintersun}} bassist Jukka Koskinen was announced as a temporary replacement for Music/MarkoHietala in 2021 that Nightwish had finally found someone taller than her.

She currently lives in UsefulNotes/{{Sweden}} with her husband Hannes Van Dahl, drummer for Music/{{Sabaton}}, their daughter Freyja, and several horses. Her younger sister Irene Jansen also sings and has performed with her on several occasions. She's also old friends with former Nightwish vocalist Music/TarjaTurunen and with several members of Music/{{Epica}}, which former bandmate Mark Jansen and his then-girlfriend Simone Simons formed after he left After Forever.

* untitled solo album (2021?)

* StatuesqueStunner: At 6'1", Floor is taller than most of her male bandmates, and [[https://www.loudersound.com/features/floor-jansen-people-dont-get-to-dictate-what-they-want-from-me she's been known to use it to intimidate hecklers.]] It led to fandom jokes when Music/{{Wintersun}} bassist Jukka Koskinen was announced as a temporary replacement for Music/MarkoHietala in 2021 that Nightwish had finally found someone taller than her.

A dramatic coloratura soprano with a vocal range spanning over three octaves, Jansen began singing professionally with Music/AfterForever (then called Apocalypse) at age 16. She initially auditioned to be the backup singer, but the other members were so impressed they promoted her to lead vocalist, with guitarist Mark Jansen ([[OneSteveLimit no relation]]) providing death growls. She subsequently studied classical singing and musical theatre at the Dutch Rock Academy and the Conservatorium Tilburg. Following Mark Jansen's departure fro the band in 2002, she became the primary songwriter.

* ''Music/{{Northward}}'' (2018)

In 2008, bandmate Sander Gommans began suffering from burnout following a performance at [=ProgPower USA=]. While there, Floor met up with Jørn Viggo Lofstad of Music/PagansMind and performed a cover set of several classic hard rock songs. After Forever decided to take the following year off to wait for Gommans to recover, and over the summer Floor wrote most of a hard rock album with Lofstad, which after spending ten years in DevelopmentHell finally came out in 2017 as ''Music/{{Northward}}''. After Forever ultimately broke up, and Floor formed a new band, Music/{{ReVamp}}.

* Music/{{Avalon}}:

* Music/MaYan:

!! Music/StarOne:
* ''Space Metal'' (2002)
* ''Victims of the Modern Age'' (2010)
!! Music/{{Ayreon}}:
* ''Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer'' (2000)