Simone Simons 
new section entitled "WOMEN'S IN METAL" which will pay tribute to the beautiful women in the metal genre, rock, etc .... which will also have information of each .... on this first occasion the beautiful and great singer "SIMONE SIMONS" ..... hope you like it and I hope your comments!
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"WOMEN'S IN METAL"
Simone Simons
Netherlands , Limburg
17/01/1985
Age: 25
Sex: Female
Banda: Epica
Voice Type: Mezzo Soprano
Simone has performed music from age 9, during a year he played the flute, then took classes in singing jazz / pop that ended up bored and stopped practicing. At 15, listened to the album Oceanborn Nightwish, and was fascinated with the band's sound, so I decided, at 16, studying classical singing. However, Simone acknowledges that he has not participated in any hearing classical music, but also did not mind: "My singing teacher has a choir, came two concerts for Christmas and asked me to lend a hand, but I've never sung anything opera, or classical, or anything. If ever arise something and have time to do so would, but for now I have the time spent with Epic. I do not like to limit myself as to my style, and indeed, the new disc can be sure that my singing is not only stylish but also classic rock and some pop "
EPICA
time sang in a choir in 2002, and year Next he joined the band Epica (known as Sahara Dust at the time), replacing the singer Helena Michaelsen.
since 2006 maintained a relationship with the keyboards of Kamelot (group which has done several collaborations from 2005). Oliver Palotai. In addition, Roy Khan Kamelot also participates in one of the themes of Consign to Oblivion, and Simone did so by participating in a matter of Kamelot. Simone says that "knew his music before Epica there, and used the same studio as us to record his latest album. We had changed the name of the group Epica just when they were recording their album called "Epica". Since then we have that bond with them and the two bands has been good because people who were known to them and not us, noticed us, and vice versa. Sometimes there have been people who have been confused because of the name after the Kamelot album and people who wore the shirt of Kamelot album thinking that actually wore a shirt of Epica, Kamelot, but since that time knew of our existence. "
VOCAL PROFILE
Simone Simons has a light mezzo register. His record is Sol3 to SI5.
The singer Simone projection has not gone unnoticed in the world of metal. Recently he collaborated with the band Primal Fear, lending his voice in the song Everytime It Rains, first duet in the history of the German band Simone has no plans yet to change of scenery or to start a solo career, although he had proposed and no dislikes at all the possibility in the future. Says in an interview with Force Magazine, "I have not thought, what I want to do first is to develop as a singer, and now all my energy goes to Epica. If someday I offer an interesting project and I can do, I'd try, not only to try something new, but also to evolve as a singer. "
PERSONAL LIFE
Beauty and youth Simons is a great demand for magazines, newspapers and television. The former singer of Epica (still training called Sahara Dust), Helena Michaelsen, the cover of Penthouse magazine in Greece. However, Simons says that it has been asked "to leave the Dutch Playboy," but said no. "I do not sell to anyone. This is a private thing, not something to be seen worldwide. My singing is also very close, do not go beyond that. If she wants to present as well, I do not dwell, "and moreover, also had an affair with the band's guitarist Mark Jansen, author of most lyrics Epica
