We'll stay in Holland for now and the next link is an obvious one. Hind is an ex-girlfriend of our previous performer Brainpower. She's been 'discovered' in 2002 in a tv show called The Soundmiwshow where she made it into the final singing a Vanessa Williams cover. The year after she took a shot at the Dutch version of the world famous tv program Idols. Hind was eliminated in the semi finals but The Netherlands embraced a new talent.
Hind, who's full name is Hind Laroussi Tahiri, is part Dutch and part Morrocan which has a huge influence in her later career as you can hear in the enclosed video clip. Summer All Over Again is her very first single released in 2003 from the same album.
Her second album released in 2005 wasn't as succesfull as her first but she kept trying to score another radio hit. At the Eurovisionsongcontest 2008 in Serbia she represented The Netherlands with the song 'Your Heart Belongs To Me" but she had to survive the semi finals first before competing for the win. She didn't make it to the top 10 in her semi-final and got eliminated early in the contest. Kind of the same problem Belgium always has.
For those whe never heared of the Eurovisionsong contest: It's a contest in which all the European countries participate with one song representing their nationality. The contest is always held in the previous winner's country. Belgium won in 1986 so we organised it in 1987... Since there are too many countries participating there are 2 semi-finals held the week before the actual final in which the top 10 can qualify to the final itself. Points are given by all the fellow European countries and vary from 12-10-8-7- up to a single point. Usually neighbour countries are benefitting each other so it's not that easy to win the contest itself but maybe with a very very very good song Belgium might catch a second win sometime.
As you can read this opens a lot of options for the next link (idols - eurovision song contest - moroccan music - ...) Wait and see !
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