The 22-year-old Mart was on holiday to Spain with his cousins for a few days this week. “We were sitting there having a drink on the beach and I started to sing nicely. In the meantime more and more bystanders started listening: Spaniards, English, Dutch, etc. They even started to applaud.”
Engels
A wide variety of songs were played. “Tom Jones, Elvis, you name it. I just can’t speak English at all, so I just kept humming. Except for Unchained Melody by The Righteous Brothers. I know it by heart. I just have no idea what I’m singing.” On a scale of 1 to 10, my English is still below 1. “
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His cousin filmed the number with his phone. “I didn’t intend to put it online, because I wasn’t very satisfied with it myself. But I did send it to my manager. He put the video online and within half an hour it had already been viewed 250 thousand times. . “
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Three days later the counter is at 9.2 million. “It just keeps going, not normal. I am living in a dream at the moment”, says Mart, who finished second in 2016 at Holland’s Got Talent. “I think it is a combination of the setting, being so spontaneous on the beach, and that I sing in English. Then you have a wider range.”
Into the monastery
Despite his poor English, he is open to singing more in that language. “Look, Dutch folk music will always remain in my heart. I will not stop with that. But if people would like to hear me sing in English, I want to do that. I just think that I have to go into the monastery first to learn it there. between the nuns. Because my English doesn’t make any sense at all now, “he laughs.
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