The Gentle Storm, is a Dutch musical project by which singer and lyricist, and composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen, a Dutch singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist musician and producer?
The Gentle Storm The Gentle Storm is a Dutch musical project by singer and lyricist Anneke van Giersbergen and composer and musician Arjen Anthony Lucassen, founder and leader of other musical projects such as Star One, Ayreon, Guilt Machine and Ambeon. The duo has previously collaborated in Ayreon albums "Into the Electric Castle" and "01011001". The project's debut album, "The Diary", was released on March 23, 2015 in Europe, and the following day in the US and consists of a double album, with the first part being a lighter, folk approach and the second one being more metal oriented.
Johnny Jordaan Johnny Jordaan was the pseudonym for Johannes Hendricus van Musscher (7 February 1924 – 8 January 1989), a Dutch singer of popular music, in particular the genre known as "levenslied", a Dutch variety of the French "chanson". He was well known for his songs about the city of Amsterdam, especially the Jordaan district (the genre dedicated to the neighborhood is known as the "Jordaanlied"), which he sang in a typical "hiccuping Mokum vibrato", "Mokum" being the Hebrew-derived nickname for the Amsterdam inner city area. In the 1950s, Johnny Jordaan rose almost instantly to the level of national celebrity and became the "uncrowned king of the "Jordaanlied"", and his hit song "Geef mij maar Amsterdam" is one of the songs Amsterdammers identify with most.