Prominent Dutch pop singer IVANA VAN DER VEEN, who has more than 220k subscribers on her YouTube channel, decides to change and get into Metal music. For this new challenge, Ivana invited the legendary Brazilian composer, producer and metal singer ALEX VOORHEES to be her partner in the new song and video “Fear vs. Me”. Alex called Bodão Arte Nula – in the photo below –, also a Brazilian producer, musician and composer, who sent great riffs. The song got a dark/gothic vibe, mixing doom-metal with shoegaze elements, creating something unique. The video was made by Gabby Vessoni, who has worked with bands like Shaman, Hatefulmurder, Fleesh (where she’s the singer) and Edu Falaschi.
FUTURE PLANS
It was through participation and awards in the ArtistSignal International Contest – in which the most voted artist each month received $10,000 USD at the time – that Voorhees met Ivana, both being winners of the award. The partnership began in May 2015 with the music video “To Cast a Shadow”. Since then, Alex has written songs for five of her albums, including “Duality”, released in 2022. The successful partnership between Voorhees and Ivana seeks new challenges: to join a band and tour in Europe and Brazil, and they are open to invitations from the promoters and event organizers.
About IVANA VAN DER VEEN
Ivana’s statistics are impressive: prolific artist and workaholic, she released her first official video in 2007 at just 14 years of age and hasn’t stopped since. So far, she has more than 180 original compositions, 100 covers, 12 CDs – 7 of them released as LP’s – 1 DVD and 8 Blu-rays. Of these, four albums and 3 Blu-rays contain songs by Brazilian composer Alex Voorhees. All albums are available on major streaming platforms such as Spotify, Deezer, iTunes and others.
About ALEX VOORHEES
Alex Voorhees, on top of being a composer and music producer, is also a metal singer. He is well known in his home country with the acclaimed band Imago Mortis, of which he has been a vocalist for over 20 years. Alex was also known previously for his participation in the band Dust From Misery, with which he participated on several Brazilian TV shows such as Jô Soares (SBT), Fantastico (Globo), MTV – New Bands, Stay Heavy (AllTV), along with others.
During his career as a vocalist, Voorhees was also present in important works along with other great Brazilian and international singers. In 2020, he participated in the DVD “X Years of Soul” of the rock opera project “Soulspell” along with names such as the Italian Fábio Lione (Rhapsody of Fire, Kamelot, Angra) and Andre Matos (Viper, Angra, Shaman). Voorhees had previously worked with Matos on the song “To Be …” for the project “William Shakespeare’s Hamlet”, along with other renowned artists in the Brazilian scenario, such as Edu Falaschi and Bruno Maia (Tuatha de Danann).
With a faithful fanbase, Voorhees’ bands performed very successfully in several states of Brazil, but the musician simultaneously always enjoyed composing for other artists, including very different styles of music. He has serviced the requests of names like Julia Crystal, Alexandre Cordeiro, Melissae’s, Rosmerta and the American artist Destyni. Alex’s musical versatility has been shown before, however, in his previous band Alquimia – mixing Rock with Brazilian rhythms.
In addition to composing, Voorhees took a taste for studio work and produced bands, soundtracks, often recording, creating arrangements and even playing all the instruments in the process of creating
complex orchestrations.
More information at
https://linktr.ee/ivanavanderveen
https://linktr.ee/alexvoorhees
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