Watch pro-shot video of Floor Jansen performing “Ever Dream” by Nightwish

Professionally filmed video footage of Nightwish singer Floor Jansen performing the band’s classic song “Ever Dream” at her September 3 solo concert at AFAS Live in Amsterdam, Netherlands can be seen below:

This track was the opening song of the show that had been crowdfunded by her fans. All of Floor’s solo gigs were sold out and the Amsterdam gig marked the end of her Dutch tour after being postponed three times.

This past summer, Floor said during an appearance on the Breaking Absolutes With Peter Orullian podcast that she has been working on a solo album since shortly before the beginning of the pandemic.

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.Floor Jansen, singer of Nightwish

Jansen discussed the prospect of making a solo album during a 2020 interview with Metal Hammer magazine. At the time, she said:

After 20 years of rock and metal, I think I would like to do something else. I don’t mean stop with Nightwish, but something alongside it.

I was recently involved in a TV show in my home country in the Netherlands (reality TV show ‘Beste Zangers’, which translates to ‘Best Singers’). That really inspired me to start writing, and the stuff that has come out is very calm.

I would love to make an album where less actually is more. Something different — not because I’m bored, but because if you are already in one of the biggest bands in your own genre, and you have someone like Tuomas Holopainen as a songwriter, I don’t really see that I’d be adding anything by making another metal album myself.”Floor Jansen

Earlier in 2020, Jansen spoke about a possible musical direction for her solo album during an Instagram Live chat. She said:

I cannot imagine it would be rock or metal — just because rock now I’ve done, and metal I’ve done a lot. And I’m already in one of the best bands, I think, that are out there, in my opinion, to my taste. Plus, if you’re in a band with a songwriter such as Tuomas Holopainen, it’s a little bit hard to come up with something — anything — better, I would say, and I only say that out of love and respect for him. Plus, after 20 years of metal, wouldn’t it be lovely to do something completely different for me? That’s how I feel.

Floor Jansen on Instagram Live

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 2020 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.