In a brand new interview with Hakos Pervanidis of the Steel Hammer Greece TV program TV Battle, NIGHTWISH‘s Ground Jansen mentioned her choice to go public together with her breast most cancers analysis again in October 2022. Requested why she felt the necessity to share her analysis together with her followers and never hold it non-public, the 44-year-old Dutch-born vocalist, who resides in Sweden together with her husband, SABATON drummer Hannes Van Dahl, mentioned (as transcribed by BLABBERMOUTH.NET): “It is a good query as a result of, after all, at first I didn’t need to inform it to anybody. It is type of your personal factor till you share it with your loved ones, share it with the individuals near you, and it, impulsively, turns into a factor. However the factor that I discovered the scariest of every little thing, and which I am positive many different individuals which were sick, most cancers or not, can relate to, you assume that you just’re wholesome and you then’re not. And hopefully in Greece, absolutely the Netherlands the place I am from, Sweden, the place I dwell, there are various checks that be sure that at any time when there’s something that grew within the time that in between the earlier checks after which to see what is going on on in your physique, there may be sufficient knowhow. So, had I not gone to a typical mammogram, I might’ve not seen it. And I believe lots of people take these checks both as a right or they do not match them into their schedule. You do not take into consideration getting sick till you do. And I needed to warn all people, ladies and men, do these checkups as a result of they’re there for a purpose and it is lifesaving. It isn’t a cliché. And, yeah, in that sense, I discovered that even when I can persuade one lady to take the mammogram or one man to go and verify up the prostate when it is their time, do it. In order that was my selection.”
Jansen additionally talked about NIGHTWISH‘s shock April 2023 announcement that the band was not going to be enjoying any dwell reveals for the foreseeable future and can be not be touring in help of the group’s newest studio album, “Yesterwynde”, which arrived in September 2024 through Nuclear Blast. She mentioned: “We’ve got at all times toured with 100% vitality, 100% of us. We give every little thing we’ve. You’ve got to have the ability to hold that up, I believe. If it begins to really feel such as you can not, arduous because it may be, it’s important to take the choice to not do it. However letting all of it go felt means too arduous, and we love making music. In order that’s when the choice got here, ‘Okay, if we won’t assure this 100%, then we don’t. There may be an album within the making. Let’s make the album, let’s launch the album, after which we see when the battery is charged.’ I hope tomorrow. I hope subsequent 12 months. That is not one thing for anybody to foretell, sadly… And likewise, it is at all times the identical factor. I believe for many people, it’s extremely good to additionally make this step away from the factor that we have been doing so intensely. I already discover now about coming again, in a steel competition in a unique setting, that I look upon the entire thing otherwise. And it type of helps. It brings mild to conditions. And I believe it was a really good transfer, and I believe we’re all dearly gonna miss it. But it surely’s precisely that we might want to recharge the batteries.”
Concerning her future plans relating to her music profession, Ground mentioned: “I am engaged on a brand new album as we converse. So this summer season I’ll do a few steel festivals all through Europe and proceed writing. Within the fall, I’ll do a theater tour within the Netherlands, making my present into one thing actually small and theatrical, with out actors or one thing. It is nonetheless a pop present — not ‘theater theater’ however my music in that kind. So I believe it is gonna be a really good problem. I will hold writing, after which the following 12 months a brand new album will seem that because it begins to really feel clearly is gonna be a complete lot heavier than the primary. So, that is arising.”
On November 18, 2022, Ground revealed that she was “most cancers free” after present process surgical procedure to have a tumor eliminated following a breast most cancers analysis. On the time, she wrote on social media that “the surgical procedure took every little thing cancerous out and it hasn’t unfold!”
When Jansen went public together with her analysis lower than three years in the past, she wrote on her social media: “The phrase most cancers is a shocker. All that you just discovered necessary in life earlier than this analysis adjustments radically inside minutes. Now I simply need to be wholesome once more. I need to see my daughter develop into a lady; I need to dwell! And the scariest a part of this analysis is that I believed I used to be wholesome! I did not really feel the most cancers, I did not comprehend it was there till I, as a 40+ lady, went to a typical mammogram checkup. One thing many international locations provide, without spending a dime even for the fortunate ones. Had I not gone there, the tumor would have gone undetected. In a 12 months from now this might have grown a lot greater. The considered that makes me share this story with you. A mammogram is lifesaving! It is uncomfortable and also you would possibly assume that you just will not have one thing in your breasts anyway however GO! And for the boys studying this: remind your spouse, girlfriend, mom, sister to go and get checked. Even with out the posh I as a western lady expertise with free mammogram checkups: GO! Fortunately, there are various organizations that supply details about self-detection in the event you should not have entry or funds for a mammogram. If I would encourage you to take excellent care of your self, then one thing good will come out of this most cancers analysis.”
Ground‘s debut solo album, “Paragon”, arrived in March 2023.
As a part of NIGHTWISH, Jansen has landed two No. 1 albums in Finland, and Prime 5 albums in Austria, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland.
Born within the Netherlands, Jansen joined her first band, one of many world’s first symphonic steel bands, AFTER FOREVER, when she was solely 16 years outdated. The group went on to launch 5 albums from 2000 to 2007, earlier than they broke up in 2009.
Jansen‘s subsequent band, REVAMP, launched two albums in 2010 and 2013, earlier than she joined NIGHTWISH as a full-time member.
NIGHTWISH‘s first album with Jansen because the lead singer was 2015’s “Countless Kinds Most Stunning”, which landed in Prime 10s all over the world. This was adopted by 2020’s “Human. :II: Nature.”, which was additionally a global success.
Jansen has toured extensively with the band and appeared on three of NIGHTWISH‘s dwell albums “Showtime, Storytime”, “Automobile Of Spirit” and “Many years: Reside In Buenos Aires”.
In October 2023, Jansen and Van Dahl welcomed their second little one, Lucy. Jansen and Van Dahl even have an eight-year-old daughter named Freja, who was born on March 15, 2017.
