Leoni Jansen

Leoni Jansen
Leoni Jansen (1982)
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Website	http://www.leoni.nl/

Leoni Jansen is a Dutch singer and stage-director. She started out as a television personality: anchor-woman on Dutch national TV for the daily “Children’s News”. After that she hosted various art and music-programs on television and ended up with her own TV show, Jansen & Co.

Wishing to devote more time to singing and the theatre, she said goodbye to TV and produced a number of music-theatre productions. She has made a range of programs, such as a Pyjama night in the Concertgebouw, an Opera party for children in Vredenburg, and directed theatre shows for pop groups including Room Eleven, Sensual and Giovanca.

Over the past few years she has been busy mainly creating music programs that bridge different cultures. She was, for instance, co-responsible for the theatre hit Female Factory, in which 13 female top stars from 10 different countries were presented simultaneously, a show that was also seen in Moscow and Madrid, following a week when the Carré Theatre was completely sold out. She produced the series Wereldwijven, which featured a Dutch singer with a singer from a different continent. She produced the show She Got Game (three versions!) with among others Astrid Seriese (), Lucretia van der Vloot (), Rocq-E Harrell (), Izaline Callister, Ricky Koole and Nurlaila Karim ()), which attracted capacity crowds throughout the country over four seasons. And she created the multi-cultural shows Made in Holland, in response to 11 September, held in Carré, and in which 45 artists from 22 different cultures took over the space for one week.

She sang at the wedding of Prince Willem-Alexander and Princess Maxima in the Arena in Amsterdam, and she was responsible for the music- production of Faranani, a homage to Nelson Mandela from the Koninklijk Theater Carré in 2002, which was broadcast live in dozens of countries.