Sem Jansen - Uncle Sem (2023)

Sem Jansen (Helmond, the Netherlands, 18-03-1992) is a singer, guitar player, songwriter and teacher. At seven years old he started following guitar lessons, quickly followed up by singing lessons. During high school he was active in several bands and started lessons at a pre-education school for the conservatory in Tilburg where he started his bachelor in classical guitar at the age of seventeen. He had guitar lessons with Hein Sanderink, Marlon Titre, Enno Voorhorst and Johan Fostier and finished his bachelor in 2013. That year he also won the Jacques de Leeuw Prijs, an award for the most prestigious student of the Fontys school of arts in Tilburg. He started his Master of Music and changed from a classical focus to a pop/rock-education where he had singing lessons with Simone Roerade and guitar lessons with Age Kat. He graduated in 2016.

Sem has been the lead-singer and guitarist of the Leif de Leeuw band since late 2011. The band won the Dutch Blues Challenge in 2014 and was awarded with “Best Band 2015” during the European Blues Awards. The band released an EP in 2013 and from then on they continued to release six more albums and a few singles. They have been touring an increasingly amount in Germany, Luxembourg, Switzerland, Czech Republic, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Belgium, the Netherlands, China, France and the USA.

Sem also writes and playes a lot of Americana music which he performs with his band. In Januari 2023 he will release his first album by the name of “Uncle Sem” which will be accompanied with a tour called “Who the f*ck is Britt?!”. The main goal of this album and this tour is to take people along in his process from female to male and all that surrounded that transition.