Floor Jansen is a Dutch singer and songwriter. Jansen was sixteen when she joined Apocalypse (later known as After Forever) in 1997 as their lead vocalist. Three years later the band released its first album, Prison of Desire. She co-wrote the band’s words and music with Mark Jansen (no relation) until he left in 2002, after which she was the band’s sole composer. Before becoming a full-time musician, she worked as a singing teacher.
When After Forever disbanded, she formed ReVamp. Their first album was produced with After Forever keyboardist Joost van den Broek, bass player Jaap Melman (formerly of Dreadlock Pussy) and guitarist Waldemar Sorychta as songwriters and producers. The final line-up of ReVamp featured keyboardist Ruben Wijga, bass player Jaap Melman, guitarists Jord Otto and Arjan Rijnen and drummer Matthias Landes. After releasing two albumsn Facebook, that ReVamp would no longer participate in the Out of the Dark tour with Van Canto, as Jansen suffered a burnout herself.
In 2012 following the departure of their lead vocalist Anette Olzon, Nightwish brought in Jansen as a touring member until the end of their Imaginaerium World Tour. In 2013, they announced Jansen was now their full-time lead vocalist; she subsequently disbanded ReVamp to focus on Nightwish. In 2015, Nightwish released their first studio album featuring Jansen as the lead vocalist, which was Endless Forms Most Beautiful. The second studio album with Jansen as lead vocalist, Human. :II: Nature., was released in April 2020.
In February 2018, Northward, a hard rock project by Jansen and Pagan’s Mind guitarist Jørn Viggo Lofstad, was unveiled. The two created the project in 2007, writing an entire album worth of music in 2008 but being unable to record previously due to their busy schedules; they ultimately reunited in 2017 to finally record the album, which was released in October 2018 under their signed label Nuclear Blast. The album features a duet between Jansen and her sister Irene. In 2019, Jansen participated in the Dutch reality TV show Beste Zangers. In the last episode she partnered with classical singer Henk Poort to perform “The Phantom of the Opera”, which was later released as a single. It reached number one on the Dutch single charts, and allowed Jansen to go on a sold-out solo tour in the Netherlands.
Jansen performed her first solo concert in January 2020. Due to the restrictions during the COVID-19 pandemic, the final shows of the tour had to be postponed, and finally took place in summer 2021. In August 2021, Jansen had confirmed in an interview that she is working on a solo album. The album has been aimed for a 2023 release. Jansen released her first single “Fire” in March 2022. Her second solo single, “Storm”, was released in May of the same year. Her third solo single, “Me Without You”, was released that September 2022. The fourth solo single called “Invincible” was released in January 2023. The album, called Paragon was released in March 2023.
