Simone Simons

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Simone Simons at the M'era Luna Festival 2004
Simone Simons with Epica live at Wacken Open Air 2018

Simone Simons (born January 17, 1985 in Hoensbroek , full name Simone Johanna Maria Simons ) is a Dutch singer. She became known with the Dutch symphonic metal band Epica . Your voice is soprano .

Life

When Simons was 10 years old, she received flute lessons for a year, followed by jazz / pop singing lessons . When she was 15, she was recommended a CD by Nightwish , after which she decided to take classical singing lessons. At the end of 2002 she became the singer of Epica (then still under the name Sahara Dust ).

A hallmark of their live performances is a fan that is directed from the edge of the stage towards them and is intended to compensate for sweating during the performance. However, the upward wind also significantly affects their performance .

On January 10, 2008, Epica announced on their website that Simons was suffering from an infection with MRSA and that most of the upcoming appearances had to be canceled. After a further deterioration in health, the band decided to forego shows completely until their full recovery. Only the US tour at the end of April / beginning of May 2008 was carried out as planned. Long-time Epica guest musician Amanda Somerville stepped in as the singer .

Since mid-May 2008 the band has been performing again with Simone Simons.

She and her long-term partner Oliver Palotai have been parents to a son since October 2, 2013.

Musical projects

In addition to Epica, Simons also took part in numerous other musical projects:

  • Days of Rising Doom : "Restoration" (2003)
  • Kamelot : "The Haunting" ( The Black Halo , 2005 and One Cold Winter's Night , 2006)
  • Kamelot : "Blücher" and "Season's End" ( Ghost Opera , 2007)
  • Kamelot : "House on a Hill" and "Poetry for the Poisoned Pt. II - III "( Poetry for the Poisoned , 2010)
  • Primal Fear : "Everytime It Rains" ( New Religion , 2007)
  • Ayreon : "Web of Lies" ( 01011001 , 2008)
  • Ayreon : ( The Source , 2017)
  • Xystus featuring the US Concert Orchestra: "My Song of Creation", "Destiny Unveiled" and "God of Symmetry" ( Equilibrio , 2008)
  • Sons of Seasons : "Fallen Family", "Fall of Byzantium" and "Wintersmith" ( Gods of Vermin , 2009)
  • Exit Eden : "Frozen" and "Skyfall" ( Rhapsodies in Black , 2017)

Web links

Commons : Simone Simons  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ facebook.com: Simone Simon's official Facebook page (accessed July 24, 2011)
  2. ↑ Epica website: Biography of Simone Simons (accessed April 10, 2009), archived on webcitation.org ( Memento from November 2, 2010 on WebCite )
  3. ↑ epica.nl: Entry in the news archive from January 10, 2008 (English, accessed on November 22, 2010)
  4. ↑ epica.nl: Entry in the news archive from March 22, 2008 (English, accessed on November 22, 2010)
  5. ↑ Epica singer Simone Simons is a new mom. rockhard.de, October 7, 2013, accessed on August 5, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Simons, Simone
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch metal singer
DATE OF BIRTH 17th January 1985
PLACE OF BIRTH Hoensbroek , Netherlands