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THIS IS A TUNE THAT ACCOMPANIES ME ON MY TRAVELS, AS I TAKE ALONG IN MY MP3-PLAYER’S PLAYLIST.
The vocalist is Sharon Janny den Adel: (born 12 July 1974, in Waddinxveen, South Holland, Netherlands) is a Dutch singer and composer, best known as the lead vocalist and one of the main songwriters in the Dutch symphonic metal/rock band Within Temptation. She has performed with various bands since she was 13, including a blues rock band called Kashiro,[1] and joined Robert Westerholt in Within Temptation in 1996.
Together with her husband, Robert Westerholt, den Adel is one of the founding members of Within Temptation. She has defined their work as epic and cinematic.[3] Her vocals play a major role in the band’s sound, despite having never received formal vocal training.[4] Sharon sings in the mezzo-soprano range but her vocal quality is light and lyric despite her range.[5] Before Within Temptation became famous, Sharon worked for a fashion company. As the band became more successful with their hit single Ice Queen, Sharon left the fashion industry to focus on music. She utilises her fashion expertise by designing her stage costumes and the band’s merchandise.
Sharon den Adel has performed on-stage and in the studio with several notable bands, including Armin van Buuren, After Forever, De Heideroosjes, and Delain. She sang the part of Anna Held in Tobias Sammet’s Avantasia projects, and the part of the Indian on Ayreon’s rock opera Into the Electric Castle. She sang the vocals of one Timo Tolkki song, “Are You The One?”, co-wrote and provided the vocals for the track “In And Out Of Love” from Armin van Buuren’s 2008 album Imagine, and sang on the track “No Compliance” for Delain’s album Lucidity, as well as working with the band Voyage on the track “Frozen” (not to be confused with the Within Temptation song of the same title).
Sharon den Adel and long-term partner Robert Westerholt have a daughter, Eva Luna, who was born on 7 December 2005. She was pregnant with Luna during the band’s The Silent Force tour. They currently live near Hilversum, in the Netherlands and they have two cats, Haplo and Lola. On 22 February 2009, Sharon announced that she was pregnant with her second child. The band’s website subsequently announced that, on 1 June 2009, Robin Aiden Westerholt was born. Going by the name of Aiden, he was born premature at 32 weeks and 6 days.
On November 26, 2010, Sharon announced that she was expecting once again. Due to complications with her previous pregnancies, their original 2011 tour dates are to be rescheduled to Fall 2011 as not to endanger her or the baby.

· Be Alert to give Service….. What we do for others counts most in life…

· If you see someone without a smile, give them one of yours!

· Learn to understand first and to be understood second.

· Don’t underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around….

· Life ends when you stop Dreaming, Hope ends when you stop Believing,

Love ends when you stop Caring,

· Friendship ends when you stop Sharing… very moment, every situation, every issue and every concern has a positive side. Find it and bring it to life….

· Be Genuinely Interested in People. If you try, you can like everybody,

and Everybody will like you…..

· When you find a Dream inside your heart Don’t ever let it go For Dreams are the tiny seeds from Which Beautiful Tomorrows Grow

· Believe in your Dreams

Was tinkering and toying about with my cyber-presence out here on the web, haven’t much to rant or blog off about, in the general usual bitching, moaning and griping mode of many, YET !!… So, watch out, you  might be tickled by one of my muses soon, . . . .