Floor Jansen aims to combine solo career and Nightwish

Floor Jansen, lead singer of Finnish metal band Nightwish, also dreams of a solo career alongside their band. Combining a solo career with a giant metal band touring the world is not easy, so it takes planning and sacrifice on both sides.

Jansen talked about his solo career aspirations in a recent episode of the “Breaking Absolutes With Peter Orullian” podcast.

“Short term, I’ve been working on a solo album since the beginning of the pandemic, or let’s say a little bit before that when the solo career [picked up] in the Netherlands. And it really kickstarted my own creativity that I haven’t really been able to use over the years. It’s nice that it gets out. And I would like to do more of that and actually finish that album and make those steps and find a way to combine a solo career with Nightwish and my life at home, which I even more value after spending so much time here in this green heaven [in Sweden] where I live.”

“And long-term, my biggest desire is to keep doing this in a good balance between everything. And that maybe sounds a bit cheesy or, ‘Yeah, of course,’ but if I see how difficult that is for everybody that’s been doing this for a long, long time, to keep a certain mental health, to keep a certain connection to the rest of the world, but not ‘we’re in a tour situation’ world but the world outside of that bubble, that would be something I highly envision and to not lose my mind halfway being Mrs. Rock Star or whatever. And being a very, very high-sensitive person, I’d like to keep my sanity in the overflow of impulses and impressions that I get throughout these days. And, yeah, if I can still come home to where I’m coming home to now, that would be a long-term dream.”