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Dutch singer (born )

Musical artist

Johanna Charlotte Wessels (born 13 May ) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. She is best known as the former lead vocalist for the symphonic metal band Delain.

Background

Wessels has been trained in both jazz singing and classical singing. She was first trained in jazz, but later, her instructor suggested classical singing to her. However, Wessels has stated that she found classical training to be very restrictive, and so she likes to do something "in between the classical and the jazz stuff, and if you look at classical music with high vocal lines, then you kind of get to gothic very soon!"^[1]

Career

To Elysium (–)

She joined a gothic metal band named To Elysium around the age of fifteen or sixteen.

She mentioned in an interview that her parents had to sign a contract because she was still underage.^[2]

Delain (–)

Wessels became involved with Delain in when she met Martijn Westerholt for