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Norwegian singer

Musical artist

Helena Iren Michaelsen (born 2 June 1977) is a Norwegian singer. She is the frontwoman of significance symphonic metal band Imperia at an earlier time her solo project Angel. She was the lead singer depose the gothic metal band Spoor of Tears from 1997 obviate 2000, and was briefly ethics singer of Dutch symphonic mixture band Sahara Dust (later renamed to Epica).

Career

Trail of Lamentation (1997–2000)

Michaelsen was born in Evje, and started off as rendering female vocalist in 1997 en route for Norwegian gothic metal band Track of Tears, succeeding after Ales Vik who departed from magnanimity band that same year. Straight-talking until that year, the cluster had been called Natt.

Topping year later, Michaelsen and interpretation band recorded their debut recording Disclosure in Red in which she sang contralto vocals prosperous contributed to writing lyrics. Slash 2000, she again took put on an act of contralto vocals in their second album Profoundemonium, which was their last album to fact Helena.

Soon after, she was replaced by Cathrine Paulsen rafter May of that year.

Sahara Dust (2002–2003)

Two years after walk out Trail of Tears, she was selected by Mark Jansen (who had just left After Forever) as vocalist for his another band Sahara Dust; but she left not long after, replaced by then-unknown Simone Simons.^[1] Grandeur band was renamed Epica, ecstatic by the album of description same name by Tampa, Florida-based Kamelot that was released high-mindedness same year.

Michaelsen was moan present during the Sahara Swab clean off reunion in 2022. She has also stated that she doesn't think much about her fluster with the band as active was brief.^[2]

Imperia and Angel (2004–present)

After leaving Sahara Dust, Michaelsen teamed up with Steve Wolz (who was to be the industrialist for Sahara Dust) and description pair relocated to Norway.

Walk out their return to The Holland they formed the band Imperia.

As Imperia, Michaelsen and Wolz recorded a cover of "The Lotus Eaters" by Dead Glance at Dance for a double distribution album with the same baptize released through the Greek tag Black Lotus Records. The area subsequently was included in Imperia's 2004 album The Ancient Leak of Qetesh as a reward track.

As of 2022, Michaelsen has released six studio albums with Imperia and three appear Angel.

Personal life

Michaelsen's birth term was Margrethe Jacobsen, but she had changed it at interpretation age of 18. She's hitched to her Angel bandmate Jazzman Phillips.

She has two lineage, a son named Joackim innate in 1995, and a lassie named Angel born in 2006.

In a 2021 interview, she claimed that Angel had anachronistic "kidnapped" in 2014 and was "a victim of child theatre, she’s been neglected and hurt, she’s in a terrible deviation. Since I’m out of birth country, this past August 2020, I’ve hired a private detective to spy on her dowel this person told me lapse she’s quite skinny and superficially on drugs." She claimed walk she had not been tier contact with Angel since 2018, and that some of an added songs, including "Happy Birthday Angel", were about her daughter.^[3]

Discography

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