Real Name: Simone Johanna Maria Simons.

Date of Birth: January 17, 1985 (28 years).

Birthplace: Hoensbroeck, Limburg, the Netherlands Flag.

Spouse: Oliver Palotai.

Children: Vincent G. Palotai.

Occupation: Singer Songwriter.

Simone has been engaged in the world of music since age 9. For a year, played the flute, as she started singing. He studied jazz and pop singing, in which he was not very comfortable, which is why the left. At 15, he heard the album Oceanborn Nightwish and was fascinated with the style of the group, so he began to study classical singing.

Simone Simons joined the band in 2003 and at that time he was already engaged to Mark Jansen (composer, guitarist, guttural vocals and writer of most of the lyrics to Epica) since 2005 and has an affair with Kamelot keyboardist (Group which became a partnership in 2005) Oliver Palotai, who also replaced keyboardist Coen Janssen Epica some dates Design Your Universe World Tour.




Simone acknowledges that it has not participated in any hearing classical music, but not her mind, she said:
" My singing teacher has a choir and two concerts for Christmas came and asked me to lend a hand but nothing've never sung opera, or classical, or anything. Emerged If ever something and had time to do it I would, but for now I have the time busy with Epica "

He also revealed in an interview in the first DVD Epica We Will Take You With Us, who never liked jazz and classical music is what she loves.
The beauty and youth Simons is a great lure for magazines, newspapers and television. Simone said she had been already asked:

"(...) To come out in the Dutch Playboy, but I said no I do not sell to anyone is a private matter, not something that everyone should see My singing is also very intimate,... No I go beyond that "