Artists who perform each other’s songs: starts on August 11, a new season starts Dear Singers. Nielson, Roxeanne Hazes and Claudia de Breij, among others, traveled to Seville in Spain to record the AVROTROS programme. NU.nl lists the seven participating artists for you.
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The 25-year-old Blanks was born as Simon de Wit and started his career in 2013 on YouTube. The artist now has more than 1.3 million followers on the platform. There he not only makes new songs with the help of suggestions from his fans, but also gives well-known songs from other artists a new (or old) look. For example, he gets ten million views for a video in which he Better Now by Post Malone provides an 80s sound. In 2021 his first album will be released, which is entitled Nothing Lasts Forever And That’s Okay wear. Songs like Waves in OK To Cry have already been proclaimed 3FM Megahit.
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Claudia de Breij
Claudia de Breij is mainly known as a comedian, but has also earned her stripes as a singer. The 47-year-old artist is best known for her song Can I Be With You, which has already collected more than 36 million streams in different versions on Spotify. The song has been in the top hundred of the Top 2000 of Radio 2 every year since 2014 Can I Be With You even the top ten. The song is not De Breij’s only musical achievement. She has seven albums to her name and she released the duet Miss you so much with Waylon out.
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Ferdi Bolland
Ferdi Bolland and his brother Rob Bolland formed the duo Bolland & Bolland. The brothers, born in South Africa, already scored hits with their own work in the 1970s and delivered big hits for other artists in the 1980s. For example, the Austrian singer Falco scores major international hits with songs such as Jeannie in Rock Me Amadeus, which were written by Bolland & Bolland. In the Netherlands they work with, among others, Rob de Nijs, René Froger and Gerard Joling.
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Bolland & Bolland stop working together around 2001, after which Ferdi Bolland sets up his own production company. His participation in Dear Singers also led to a revival of the conflict between the brothers. Rob Bolland claims that he is not allowed to participate in the program because he is terminally ill. It annoys him that his brother has not let him know that he is participating.
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Jaap Reesema
Jaap Reesema breaks through to the general public in 2010 after winning the talent show X Factor. His debut single Don’t Stop Believin’, a cover of Journey, becomes a hit. The singer quickly disappears from the picture after his victory, but years later suddenly manages to achieve success in Belgium. He works together with producer Regi, known from Milk Inc., with whom he recorded the number 1 hit under the stage name Jake Reese. Ellie scores. Several hits in Belgium follow, after which Reesema, now again under his own name, the duet Now We Stop Talking records with the Flemish singer Pommelien Thijs. This song also manages to reach the first place in the charts in the Netherlands. Also singles like Everything will be fine in My Little President are doing well in both countries.
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Nielson
Nielson, who is born as Niels Littooij, experiences his breakthrough in 2012 with the program The Best Singer-Songwriter In The Netherlands. He has to leave the win to Douwe Bob, but does score a hit with Beauty & De Brains. He releases successful collaborations with, among others, Miss Montreal and BLØF and also only storms the charts with Sexy When I Dance. In 2018 he will release the album Diamond out, of which the single Ice cold, with almost 60 million streams on Spotify, is becoming a big hit. Nielson will receive an Edison in 2019 for both the album and the song. Since then he has released several singles, of which the song I’m Better For You with Kris Kross Amsterdam proves to be successful again.
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Roxeanne Hazes
Roxeanne Hazes has been known from a young age as the daughter of André Hazes and already released several albums with her brother André as a child. On this they perform, among other things, the work of their father. In 2017 she starts her solo career. Then the single appears I Was Your Girl. The album In My Blood appears several months later. After that, the 29-year-old singer does various club tours and singles appear as Broken, Mommy Was An Asshole in Bonnie & Clyde. Hazes will release a second solo album in the autumn.
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Sarah Lorraine
Brazilian-born singer Sarita Lorena moves to the Netherlands at the age of nine, where she further discovers her passion for music. In 2018 she participates in a talent show of radio station FunX. During her participation she writes the song Don’t think. She then works with Ronnie Flex, among others, and signs a contract with Sony. She releases music in both Dutch and Portuguese. In 2020 she will make the song together with football players David Neres and Danilo welcome Antony to welcome Brazilian player Antony to Ajax.
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