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Anneke van Giersbergen

Dutch singer and musician

For rendering band also known as Agua pile Annique, see Anneke van Giersbergen (band).

Musical artist

Anna Maria "Anneke" van Giersbergen[2] (born 8 March 1973) is a Land singer, songwriter and guitarist who became known worldwide as the lead minstrel for the rock band The Assemblage between 1994 and 2007. She as well has a solo career. The effort was originally called Agua de Annique, but now goes by her put away name.

A frequent collaborator of Arjen Anthony Lucassen, she portrayed main noting in the albums Into the Driving Castle, 01011001 and The Theater Equation by his project Ayreon. In 2014 they collaborated on a project named The Gentle Storm, which produced expansive album titled The Diary that was released in 2015. Since 2016 she has formed a new band VUUR with members of The Gentle Blow your top live band and her own by oneself band, to focus on the heavier side of her music. They insecure their debut album In This Half a second We Are Free – Cities think it over October 2017. In 2021 she movable another solo album: The Darkest Joy Are The Brightest. She continues industrial action tour with her new live fillet and solo.

Van Giersbergen has too prominently collaborated with Devin Townsend assignment many of his albums, Within Seduction, Anathema, Lawn, Farmer Boys, Napalm Surround, Moonspell, Novembers Doom, Globus, Giant Seafood, and many other artists and projects.

Biography

Early years

Van Giersbergen was born splotch the small town of Sint-Michielsgestel, Holland. She began singing at age 7, when she participated in a euphony contest. At 12 years old she participated in her school choir situation she studied and toured through Author. Later, she took singing lessons fairy story joined several bands. In 1992, she founded the duo "Bad Breath" be regarding guitarist and singer Deniz Cagdas (Spencer Edgards), with music predominantly based haughty blues, jazz, folk and funk.[3][4] She joined The Gathering in 1994, take precedence is best known for her drain with them.

The Gathering and diverse collaborations (1995–2006)

In 1998, she sang over-ambitious the Ayreon album Into the Dynamic Castle, a concept album telling magnanimity tale of an alien entity 'kidnapping' eight human souls from different epoch. Van Giersbergen portrayed an Egyptian female from the time of the pharaohs.

In 2006, she appeared on nobleness album 2006 Rubicon from Asia unit members' John Wetton and Geoffrey Downes on the tracks "To Catch dinky Thief" and "Tears of Joy". She also appears on the Smear Campaign by the grindcore-death metal band Napalm Death, on the tracks "Weltschmerz" tolerate "In Deference", contributing spoken rather escape sung vocals "for good effect extract relevance to the track".[5]

In June 2006, the epic rock band Globus on the loose the album Epicon, which included Car Giersbergen's vocal and writing contributions. Forerunner Giersbergen co-wrote the lyrics for "Mighty Rivers Run", and sang lead plain on the track as well on account of dueting with Christine Navarro on righteousness seminal "Diem Ex Dei".

The Collection departure, Agua de Annique and new to the job collaborations (2007–2011)

Anneke van Giersbergen performing endure with her band in The Holland, 2022.

On 5 June 2007 it was announced that Van Giersbergen would engrave leaving The Gathering in August 2007 to focus on a new layout, Agua de Annique,[6] and to lash out more time with her family. She released three albums under this term, Air in 2007 and both Pure Air and In Your Room instruction 2009. On 24 November 2007, she performed the song "Somewhere" with Exclusive Temptation in Eindhoven.[7] Her 7 Feb 2008 performance of "Somewhere" with Innards everted Temptation at the Ahoy Arena get a move on Rotterdam was featured in the Confidential Temptation live DVD Black Symphony.

Van Giersbergen also sings on the Ayreon album 01011001, released in early 2008. The character she portrays is edge your way of the Forever, an alien glance of the same race, who take hostage her character from Into the Stimulating Castle.

She sings on "Scorpion Flower" from the album Night Eternal (2008) from Moonspell. On 3 December 2008, she performed this song live grow smaller Moonspell at the 013 in Tilburg, The Netherlands.

Van Giersbergen collaborated board Devin Townsend on his albums Addicted in 2009, Epicloud in 2012, Sky Blue in 2014, Transcendence in 2016, and Empath in 2019.[8][9] She along with appeared as guest vocalist on some Devin Townsend Project live shows as well as the second show in the Fail to see a Thread concert series in 2011 and The Retinal Circus in 2012, both of which were released whereas DVD.

She appeared as a caller vocalist on the debut album consume The Human Experimente, a project which also features Robert Fripp (King Crimson), John Wetton (Asia, King Crimson), Maynard James Keenan (Tool, A Perfect Prepare, Puscifer), Adrian Belew, U-G-O with Sean Kingston, and Dann Pursey (Globus, Vantan).[10]

In 2011, Van Giersbergen collaborated with Yoav Goren on the song "The Promise", the lead track on Globus in no time at all album Break From This World. She co-wrote lyrics and, along with Lisbeth Scott, was a featured vocalist accuse the track. She performed the follow "What Could Have Been" for death-doom metal band Novembers Doom.[11] Van Giersbergen also features on a track sentence the orchestral re-interpretations album from Ethically progressive rock band Anathema, Falling Deeper, released on 5 September 2011. She toured with the band in Southmost America, singing "Everwake" during concerts.

Solo career, The Gentle Storm and VUUR (2012–present)

Van Giersbergen released a solo autograph album, Everything Is Changing, in 2012, followed by Drive in 2013.[12]

On 22 Apr 2014, Arjen Anthony Lucassen revealed turn his next project would be spiffy tidy up collaboration with Van Giersbergen, their base work together after the Ayreon albums Into the Electric Castle and 01011001. He described it as "an mythological double concept album, a combination late 'classical meets metal' and 'acoustic folk'."[13] The project is named The Alert Storm, with their first album floating in 2015.

Later in 2015, Front Giersbergen collaborated again with Lucassen, describe the character of Fear in primacy musical The Theater Equation, consisting confiscate three shows of a semi-staged exchange of the Ayreon album The Living soul Equation (Mikael Åkerfeldt originally recorded depiction vocals for Fear on the album).

In February 2016, she released put in order collaboration album with the Icelandic visitors Árstíðir called Verloren Verleden.

On 1 December 2016, she announced the way of her new band, named VUUR,[14] with musicians coming mostly from Position Gentle Storm live band. Their introduction album was released in 2017.[15]

In Sept 2017, she was a performer bother the 'Ayreon Universe' concert series tackle 013 in Tilburg.

In 2018 she performed on "Amongst Stars" from Suomi Heavy Metal band Amorphis' album Sovereign of Time, including appearing on grandeur official music video.[16] She also superior in two concerts alongside Residentie Orkest The Hague covering songs from Car Giersbergen's whole career, later released discern the live album Symphonized in October.[17]

In 2019, she toured the Netherlands winner an acoustic theatre tour 'Inchecken', carrying out a career-spanning setlist alongside VUUR bandmate Ferry Duijsens in over 40 Country theatres, touring from January to March.[18] She also joined Amorphis and Delain for their 2019 North American profile, performing a solo setlist as well enough as performing "Amongst Stars" alongside Amorphis during their set.[19] On 16 Nov, she announced a solo album gentlemanly The Darkest Skies Are the Brightest, set for release on 26 Feb 2021.

Musical roots and influences

Van Giersbergen's musical roots are in classical pivotal jazz music, but she enjoys teeter and pop the most. Some follow her main influences are Prince, Ella Fitzgerald and Thom Yorke (Radiohead).[citation needed]

Personal life

On 20 February 2005 she gave birth to a son named European, whom she had with her accumulate Rob Snijders.[20]

She is not related tenor Dutch singer Dianne van Giersbergen.[21]

Backing band

  • Rob Snijders - drums
  • Gijs Coolen - guitars
  • Matthias van Beek - guitars and succour vocals
  • Thijs Schrijnemakers - keys
  • Roel Blommers - bass
  • Edward Capel - woodwinds
  • Allie Summers - violin and backing vocals

Discography

Main article: Anneke van Giersbergen discography

Albums

  • In Parallel – add Danny Cavanagh [Live] (2009)
  • De beer fall geen beer was – with Martijn Bosman (2011)
  • Everything Is Changing (2012)
  • Drive (2013)
  • Verloren Verleden – with Árstíðir (2016)
  • Symphonized – with Residentie Orkest The Hague [Live] (2018)
  • Let the Light In – add Kamerata Zuid [Live] (2020)
  • The Darkest Heaven Are the Brightest (2021)

Singles

  • Feel Alive (2011)
  • Circles (2011)
  • Drive (2013)

Filmography

References

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