27 Facts About Floor Jansen

Floor Jansen is the third and current lead vocalist of Finnish symphonic metal band Nightwish.

In 2013, they announced Floor Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish.

Floor Jansen is the older sister of fellow singer Irene Jansen, who worked with Ayreon.

Floor Jansen was sixteen when she joined Apocalypse in 1997.

Floor Jansen co-wrote the band's words and music with Mark Jansen until he left in 2002, after which she was the band's sole composer.

On 17 October 2009, Floor Jansen announced via MySpace that the name of her new band was ReVamp.

In late 2011, Floor Jansen joined her former bandmate Mark Floor Jansen in his band Mayan's Latin American tour, performing in Sao Paulo.

In 2012, Floor Jansen joined Adrenaline Mob on stage in Bochum and Weert.

On 2 August 2021, Floor Jansen had confirmed in an interview that she is working on a solo album.

Floor Jansen released her first single "Fire" on 25 March 2022.

Floor Jansen was the opening act for Metallica in Amsterdam on 29 April 2023 at the last minute, when American heavy metal band Five Finger Death Punch had canceled their appearance that night.

Floor Jansen is a member of Lucassen's heavy metal supergroup Star One, and was featured on the studio albums Space Metal and Victims of the Modern Age.

Floor Jansen has been a guest for the metal band Nightmare.

In 2019, Floor Jansen participated in the Dutch reality TV show Beste Zangers.

Floor Jansen won the Popprijs 2019, a prestigious Dutch award for the artist or band with an important contribution to Dutch pop music in the past year.

Floor Jansen thereby became the second Nightwish member to be a namesake for a newly discovered species, following Tuomas Holopainen, after whom had been named a species of fungus gnat discovered in 2017 by Finnish biologist Jukka Salmela.

Floor Jansen is over six feet tall, but she has said that she does not understand people's fascination with her height.

Between 2014 and 2015, Floor Jansen lived in Joensuu, the capital of North Karelia.

Floor Jansen was previously in a relationship with After Forever guitarist Sander Gommans.

On 15 March 2017, Floor Jansen announced via Instagram that she had given birth to a girl.

On 26 October 2022, Floor Jansen announced that she had been diagnosed with breast cancer, undergoing surgery the following day.

Two days following the announcement, Floor Jansen confirmed that the surgery had gone well.

Floor Jansen can sing from classical to belting and raspy vocals like screaming and death growls.

Floor Jansen is a soprano with a range of more than three octaves.

Floor Jansen started studying music at the Dutch Rock Academy in 1999, entering the Conservatorium Tilburg three years later.

Floor Jansen studied musical theatre and a year of opera.

Floor Jansen used to play the guitar, piano and flute and has completed several years of music studies.