Floor Jansen

Jansen 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, she started teaching performing in her own course called Wanna be a Star?!. Jansen plays the guitar, piano and flute and has completed several years of music studies, and has a soprano vocal range. Three albums by the Dutch composer and multi-instrumentalist Arjen Anthony Lucassen include guest vocals from Jansen. 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 burnout 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. Jansen 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 Jørn Viggo Lofstad (no) (Pagan's Mind, Jørn Lande) for a new musical project. On 16 June 2009, Jansen announced through her MySpace site, that she had started a new metal band, which has put her project with Lofstad from Pagan's Mind (called Sinh) on hold. On 17 October 2009, Jansen announced via MySpace, that the name of her new band was ReVamp. ReVamp's first album was produced with After Forever keyboardist Joost van den Broek, bassplayer Jaap Melman formerly of Dreadlock Pussy, and guitarist Waldemar Sorychta of Grip Inc., Voodoocult, and Eyes of Eden fame as songwriters and producers. In August 2011, Van Canto announced on Facebook, that ReVamp would no longer participate in their Out of the Dark tour, as Jansen suffered a burnout herself. In 2011, Jansen joined MaYan's Latin American tour, performing in São Paulo. In 2012, Jansen joined Adrenaline Mob in Bochum and Weert. Currently ReVamp is working on their second album, which is scheduled to be released in August 2013. Revamp's album will be called Wild Card, a title that, according to singer Jansen, came about as follows: "This album became the most aggressive album I've ever made and in the lyrics I tell a lot about my personal experiences of the last years. This resulted into some heavy stories and some openhearted 'screams' I needed out of my system. It matches the violence of the music in a great way, we wrote as a great team! But not one sentence or word can really cover the contents of this album. Its variety in all its ingredients makes it almost impossible. A wild card is an unpredictable and unforeseeable factor. You don’t know what you’re getting, or when. That's this album! It's 100% ReVamp and it's your wild card!"