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Post by Admin on Nov 14, 2020 20:34:01 GMT
Nightwish singer Floor Jansen has just debuted a metal cover version of "Let It Go," the hit song from Disney's 2013 animated film, Frozen.
Seven years after the movie's release, the track remains insanely popular, having earned nearly three billion plays between two Disney-uploaded videos on YouTube alone. So what inspired Jansen to cover the song, originally sung by Idina Menzel, the actress who voiced Frozen's main character, Queen Elsa? That would be her three-year-old daughter, Freja.
"Freja has been listening to [and] singing 'Let It Go' from the Disney movie, Frozen, for months," relayed Jansen. "For fun and also because I miss performing for you, I decided to cover 'Let It Go' from Frozen for all of you! 'Let It Go' has been stuck in my head for months, so now it's your turn."
The instrumentation came courtesy of Oscar Fläring of the band The Fouxes, which prompted the singer to note, "We added a bit of a rock and metal sound to it and gave it a bit of our own twist!"
Listen to Jansen's beautifully sung version of "Let It Go" further down the page. You can even read the lyrics below (you probably know all the words, whether you'll admit it or not) and sing along yourself.
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Post by Admin on Nov 30, 2020 3:48:57 GMT
Alone - Heart (cover by Floor Jansen)
NIGHTWISH's Floor Jansen has released her cover version of the HEART classic "Alone". A video of her rendition, featuring music by Joost Van Den Broek, can be seen below.
In a statement accompanying the YouTube release of her "Alone" video, the Dutch-born vocalist wrote: "Picking Alone from @thebandheart (HEART) as my second cover on YouTube felt like the right decision. I have performed this song with NIGHTWISH, AFTER FOREVER and even at the Christmas Metal Symphony! So when I saw many of you requesting this song, I got to work! Hope you enjoy it!"
Earlier in the month, Jansen released her cover version of the song "Let It Go" from the Disney movie "Frozen". She revealed that she got the inspiration to record the track through her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Freja, who had been listening to it and singing it "for months."
Jansen made her live debut as the frontwoman of NIGHTWISH on October 1, 2012 at Showbox Sodo in Seattle, Washington following the abrupt departure of the band's lead singer of five years, Anette Olzon.
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Post by Admin on Dec 26, 2020 19:29:11 GMT
In a recent interview with the Swedish smartphone app BandBond, NIGHTWISH's Floor Jansen discussed people's fascination with her height. The 39-year-old Dutch-born singer, who lives in Sweden with her husband, SABATON drummer Hannes Van Dahl, said (see video below): "I'm taller than most women, and I'm taller — depending on where I am in the world — than most men. So that became something. I think it's difficult to see, when I'm on stage, how tall I am. But if you put me, for example, next to [NIGHTWISH] guitar player [Emppu Vuorinen, who is five feet, three inches tall], then the difference makes it even more fascinating. And more than that, I don't really understand why it really matters, because it's not like I can do much about it anyway. [Laughs]"
Several months ago, Jansen told Kerrang! magazine that her height means that her clothes need to be tailor-made.
"I am just over six feet tall, and while I am not a giant, I don't really fit into regular clothing," she said. "For the stage, I need to have entire outfits made specifically for me so I can be sure that everything is, shall we say, sitting in the right place. It's expensive — but very important."
Last month, Jansen released her cover version of the song "Let It Go" from the Disney movie "Frozen". She revealed that she got the inspiration to record the track through her three-and-a-half-year-old daughter Freja, who had been listening to it and singing it "for months."
Jansen made her live debut as the frontwoman of NIGHTWISH on October 1, 2012 at Showbox Sodo in Seattle, Washington following the abrupt departure of the band's lead singer of five years, Anette Olzon.
Jansen officially joined NIGHTWISH in 2013 and made her recording debut with the group on 2015's "Endless Forms Most Beautiful" album.
NIGHTWISH's ninth studio album, "Human. :II: Nature." , was released in April via Nuclear Blast. The effort is a double album containing nine tracks on the main CD and one long track, divided into eight chapters on CD 2.
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