All About Sharon

Haha I think they might be actually they do seem to be small. Well I'm going by the chinese take away round here

I have a chinese takeout around where i am and the woman in there (who is obviously chinese) isn't actually that short

Damn there goes my theory Are Dutch actually the tallest people then?

lol but you never know she could be one of a few that are a bit taller than others maybe

KellieBent wrote:

Damn there goes my theory Are Dutch actually the tallest people then?

Yes, we are.

Although Wikipedia mentions the "Dinaric Alps" (that's in former Yugoslavia) as a place where man is taller, but it's not a real country.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height

I'm sick of looking at the severely diminished Wiki page for Sharon (which even seems to have the times of her pregnancy wrong, because she was preggers in between tours, not during the TSF tour, well maybe for a month or two). How about, as a forum project, we build up the page together??

YES! Godly idea DoF.

i really like the idea

Good idea, I think we should update all pages about WT. Usually the info is very limited and sometimes wrong...

Well then, the WT Wiki Project is underway!

I just read in an interview that the Sharon dance is actually based on Balinese dance. I never knew that, and I think it's cool because I was in Bali myself this year. ^^ The interview is a bit too long to translate, but I can sum up Sharon's favourite music if someone would like that.

That would be amazing, Onno!

And I think I knew that about the Sharon dance. She makes it BEAUTIFUL

cool Onno thanks for that i never knew that

Her first likes: Boney M & Grease

First Concert: Bruce Springsteen in De Kuip, Rotterdam

At about 17 she started to like Tori Amos and Nirvana (and a Janis Joplin a bit)

Latest discovery: Nicole Atkins

All-time favourites:
The Power of Love van Frankie Goes To Hollywood, Sharon's favourite Christmas song. Troy by Sinéad O’Connor, The Man Who Sold The World - Nirvana's version, Precious Things by Tori Amos.

Really dislikes: R&B, but she sometimes listens to it because the production can be really good

Secretly likes: André Hazes. Preferably "De Vlieger"

Awesomesauce Is it possible you can post the link to the interview? I wanna see how much of it I can read and actually understand xD

Thanks for the interview.

I tried putting it into Google translator but some parts dont make sense I had read about the dance in other interviews but nice to know more about it

EDIT:

Someone posted a link to this Sharon site on the Offical Forum http://sharondenadel.canalblog.com/ it's french so I have no idea what it says But there are pics and a pic of The Circle

Ooh, nice site, I especially love the Sharon with other artists section. Seriously, where was I when those making-ofs from the first WHYD video were released? They look so funny with all the green.

That's an awesome site!!

So...here's what I could get from the interview (I'm sorry if it makes zero sense. I'm trying to translate it it like, word-for-word ):

Quote :

Singer Sharon den Adel (1974) is the figurehead of the successful symphonic metal band Within Temptation, the country's most famous musical export product. The double-DVD, double-CD and Blu-ray disc Black Symphony is the view of the spectacular concert that the group recorded earlier this year with a stubborn 60-Metropole Orchestra in Ahoy. 'The Greatest Show on Earth' was a headline in an English music magazine. An interview with Sharon den Adel in episode 27 of The Music Experience...




"I grew up as a true child of expats, always traveling. From my third to my tenth I lived in Indonesia, Yemen and Suriname. But outside of their work my parents spent every minute of the day involved with music. They were extreme music freaks. Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, ELO, The War of The Worlds by Jeff Wayne, but also Queen, Chris Rea, and Bob Marley. They had a huge collection plates, and went at least once a month to a concert. The Eagles, for example, they are very often seen, even in Indonesia. I unfortunately never saw them, I was still too young. We often went to Bali shows with dancers. That is unconsciously sitting in my system. The thing I do with my hands and arms swinging on the stage is inspired by that."


War of the Worlds

"My parents really enforced music. My six years older brother got pocket money, and I wanted some too! 'Okay', my parents said, 'You may also have pocket money, but only if you spend it on music'. So when I was four years old I bought my first music cassettes. Thus I will also do that. She's still a bit too young, she is two and a half. In the first instance, I was palmed off to buy the music by my brother, so he could have a nice copy of it. So I bought Moody Blues and The War of The Worlds. War of the Worlds scared me. My heavens, the world decays! I spent the first five minutes under the bed. Then I bought my own things: Boney M and Grease. I had heard that on the radio. The funny thing is that I now see the similarities between The War of The Worlds and what we do with Within Temptation. It is heavy and theatrical and melodic and epic. [Cue 2 sentences Andy can't translate ]"

I failed horribly with translating the last two paragraphs in the interview, so I didn't post 'em. But I hope maybe Onno could do those two? *cough*15 bless*cough*

"a huge collection plates", lol! It should be a collection of records, or is that synonym in English too?

The sentences you can't translate:
"And ELO, I hear some parts of that in it too. I have a boxset of them at home."

By the way, the interview continues on the next page:
http://www.hifi.nl/artikel_pagina2/1959/Zeurpiet.html

If there are pieces of it you don't understand, just ask. I never really look at Bless, by the way. I don't get the system.

xD Thank you, Onno. I'm not sure how I got "plates" it's not a synonym in English But I did well for the most part, right? And Oh my Sharon, there's MORE?! How did I miss that? xD

The bless and curse system basically just shows that you've done things to help and hurt the forum.

Thanks Andy. I tried to translate it on the google translator but it made barely any sense. It came up with plates too but I guess it's records.

You know Andy I've started saying Oh My Sharon I dunno why but it seems to have caught on to my brain haha

Kayleigh started saying it first I think, when we decided Sharon is God.

this is very true. I just ended up saying it the other day haha I dunno why. Mind if I use your phrase? It doesnt seem to want to leave me.

By all means xD Go right ahead. The more people who are aware that Sharon is God, the better