Musical Career

He sang in a choir time in 2002, and the following year he joined the band Epica (known as Sahara Dust then) replacing the singer Helena Michaelsen. I also participate in a black metal band Epica before entering.

With the launch of the third studio album by the Dutch band , The Divine Conspiracy , Simone revealed in an interview on the web Live4metal , it was a concept album based on true stories . Simone reveals that " has something to do with religion. It is about God, he has evidence for mankind, he creates many religions with different gods , and the end is to realize if people really are aware that all about one thing: there is a god , all who aspire to a different god is , after all , the same. So somehow all religions have similarities and it is only a big religion, and people adapted to over the years. Each song - are 13 songs including the introduction , and each and every one of them have something to do with the concept. There is a main character who is going through life and encounters with different religions , and also lives the bad aspects about it and also the good aspects . The first part of the CD is on the wrong side of the soul of human beings , you know : people who are greedy , falling into drug addiction , all faults we commit human , and this person is murdered because she has a strong opinion about Islam. There is a song , the ballad , " Safeguard to Paradise ," about that person , Theo van Gogh , who was a very nice person but spoke more . "

In 2008 he had a concert in Miskolc with the band where he could sing classical themes and topics of peak kameloot orchestral arrangements, to which Simone I said it was "the largest project musically for us. Normally do not play with a real orchestra and have arrangements that are in the album on country tracks. Now everything was and had to listen carefully to the orchestra. the sound of the royal orchestra and what we use to play is very different and we had to put a little more care. was great to be on stage with many musicians.'s music came to life and it was a magical feeling. for me interpret classic songs was also very special because I have classical training but never showed them to fans of Epica what I can do ".

In January 2008, it was announced on the band's website that Simone was suffering MRSA.
He is currently on tour with Epica presenting his new studio album, Requiem for the Indifferent.
In 2006, it was rumored that Simone would be the new lead singer of the symphonic metal band Nightwish, of course the band said it was not true, 5, but Simone said that if he had asked she would have said anyway no, because I could not sing his songs with the same passion with which he sings the Epica, and also added "I was inspired by Tarja Turunen to sing, I could not take its place."
The October 17, 2009, Simone and Epica receive an award in the category "best show" in the 7th edition of the Metal Female Voices Fest VII.