Last Thursday we went anything but WRONG. Yet this is the title of a worldly Belgian popsong, now eternalized in the same Hall of Fame, we also blogged about last year, traditionally hosted by the seaboard 🌊🎵@Kursaal Ostend.
The concept: one of our popular radiostations unites young and established talent in a dazzling music celebration 🏆
Picture by Jook
Scroll to discover our amazing photo gallery of Belgian music legends🎤like this incredible productive composer and talented producer Steve Willaert🎹⤵️🎖
CongratZ are also in order for Novastar aka Joost Zweegers🎶, singer songwriter of “Wrong” among other evergreens, maybe yet to come in this very Hall of Fame⭐️
(Not) Novastarstruck 👩🎤 Striking poses with the enchanting 🎶Joost Zweegers🙌 Before Wrong, best served with few introduction according to the Singersongwriter, became an instant hit in 2000, the song remained hidden for many years. Luckily we can give it its well deserved evergreen status 23 years later.Besides for Steve and Joost, CongratZ retrostyle are also in order for Margriet Hermans, leading lady in more ways then one, as well as Wim Soutaer & his all time local classic “Allemaal” 📻📺🎙 Meet Steve Willaert, one of our most productive and versatile composers. 🎶🎖Want to witness his high soundwizard-level ? Go see the latest Studio 💯 musical RED STAR LINE 🚢 or watch this small appetizer of soundtracks ⤵️, played by himself 🎹Spotlights 🔛maestro Willaert Steve also delivers breathtaking songs in musicals like this one: Red Star Line And accompanies young talents like these two 👯♀️ the performance of CAPPAERT was a tribute to their maestroA moving tribute for Lifetime achievement awarded Margriet, by her lovely also very talented daughter Celien 🎤♥️Crowd picture perfect by Stef Keynen/VRT
Time to focus on a worldsoundtrack-pioneer at this year’s golden Filmfest Ghent.
Already living multiple artistic lives simultaneously for quite some time, we look forward to many more decades where Dirk Brossé is conducting, composing, teaching and translating the magic of sound in film to audiences around the globe.
All of the above is combined by an extraordinary maestro and creator, communicating with the world through music🎶.
Our ultimate ambassador 🇧🇪of music in film 🎞 recently added another personal highlight to his hometown festival. On Saturday October 21st, the conductor of the World Soundtrack Awards was awarded himself for his filmscore of the acclaimed documentary “Our Nature”. 🎵
The award “Best original score for a Belgian production” was won by Dirk just one day after this interview.🙌
And the award went to…🎼 (foto Filmfest Ghent – (c) Jeroen Willems)
Care to know more about Dirk Brossé’s creation process, highlights & first encounters with Filmfest Ghent ? His vision on our rapidly changing world? Keep reading and re-check this post shortly for more updates and 🆕 footage📷.
Flashback to 1984
AC: Congratz on the nomination! You represent one of the creative minds with lots of history at Filmfest Ghent. Can you recall your first encounter with the festival ?
Dirk Brossé: We go back to 1984. As a young professional musician, already conducting and composing, I literally knocked on the door of Jacques Dubrulle, the director of the filmfestival at the time. I asked him if the festival already had an opening tune. Which wasn’t the case.
I said to him: Why don’t you ask a young composer to write one ? Good idea, he replied, inquiring “ Do you know someone? (smiles)”
To make a long story short, we recorded the ouverture, I already had written:). And it became the official tune of the festival for many years. Since the beginning of the World Soundtrack Awards, we have a new tune, written by Elmer Bernstein, who gave it as a present to the festival.
Thanks to the focus on filmmusic, our theme became the impact of music on film.
Since that particular day, Filmfest Ghent evolved to one of the most important filmfestivals in the world.
Dirk Brossé
This talk between creators in music (Female singer-songwriter and musician Eiko Ishibashi) and film (screenwriter and director Ryusuke Hamaguchi) took place at Kinepolis Ghent last October 20th. Hamaguchi received the Joseph Plateau Honorary award afterwards
Rewriting the rules of cinema 🎵🎞
AC: This year, the impact of music in film goes crescendo, celebrating half a century of Filmfest Ghent with the project 25 x 2, where filmdirectors are inspired by composers.
Dirk Brossé: Exactly. To celebrate this special anniversary we wanted to do something unconventional. So we decided to ignore mainstream approaches many companies adopt, often celebrating their anniversaries in the same way.
As a cultural organisation, we were seeing things from a different angle. And our artistic director Wim De Witte came up with this great idea💡
“To ask 25 composers to write a score, and 25 filmmakers to make a film starting from the music.”
AC: ArtistCongratz already discovered the work of Juanita Onzaga, who also realizes the first VR experience at Filmfest Ghent.
Dirk Brossé: Amazing isn’t it, along with 25×2 this can pave the way for future projects.
The shortfilms, or should we say scores, can be viewed and listened to on line. They will also be projected in SMAK (Citymuseum of Actual Art in Ghent)
More iconic moments 🫶
AC: So here we are, 5️⃣0️⃣ years of awesome cinema @ Filmfest Ghent. Could you share your absolute highlights from past decades?
There are so many magnificent moments to cherish. I feel blessed to have had the opportunity to work alongside great artists, early on.
Dirk Brossé
Those very first years, I remember conducting part of a concert, with icons like Elmer Bernstein and Georges Delerue. Later also with Angelo Badalamenti, a charming man and a great composer. We all know him because of Twin Peaks, but he wrote so much more beautiful filmmusic. (Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive…)
Another iconic moment was when we started the WSA in October 2000. Particularly the opening concert with the Brussels Philharmonic 🎵and the music by Hans Zimmer. The lifetime achievement had been given to him by Morgan Freeman. For Hans Zimmer it was the very first concert, conducting his own score, so you can imagin how memorabel this really was…We invited him back several times over the years. He is also a very gifted producer.
This was the starting point of the World Soundtrack Academy as well as The Awards. In those days we could not have imagined that 25 years later it would become a world wide organization with hundreds of members worldwide 🌎
Like the legendary Ryuichi Sakamoto, (The last Emperor, Little Buddha, The Revenant…) who was here just a few years ago. Unfortunately he passed away.
I also very much enjoyed having the Japanese composer Shigeru Umebayashi at the WSA. Working with amazing Chinese and Japanese directors, he wrote the music for 2046and House of flying daggers (2004). I consider his guest appearance as a personal highlight. He brought a complete new sound to the festival. The sound of Asia joined European, British and American films.
Dirk Brossé
Dirk Brossé: Another absolute highlight was when we celebrated the 10th anniversary of the WSA. In 2010 we invited 10 composers and played their music. All of them came to Ghent.
AC: Cinema with Asian influences keeps on booming. ArtistCongratz had the opportunity to discover Oscar contender “Past Lives” by the South Korean-Canadian director Celine Song. Does a busy conductor like you get the opportunity to see gems like these at the festival?
Dirk Brossé: Being part of the festivalfamily this is a bit of a frustration. With the preparation of the concert; meetings and rehearsals, unfortunately few time is left to go see the movies. Which is a shame, I know. Because I LOVE cinema and I WOULD like to see all those beautiful titles, but you can’t have it all…
AC: Another rather 🆕 element is the increased attention for music in games this edition…
Dirk Brossé: We also have an advisory board, with important representatives of the industry; managers, producers, people from ASCAP, BMI (author & composer-societies in the US) etc.
They encouraged us to do a game music concert.Which isn’t obvious. This is a whole new world for us. Videogames hold a completely different genre, with different music, different composers.While film music has to take into account the story and the dialogues among other things, games seem to leave more freedom to the composer. As far as I experienced, I feel like there is more flow.
“A.I. Is In The House”
AC: A hot topic concerning us all we would like to know your opinion about is how the rise of artificial intelligence will relate to our (creative) worldin the future. Should we fear or endear A.I. ?
Dirk Brossé: It’s another technical revolution. We have had many. When we look at the history of cinema, the first amazing innovation and maybe the most important one was that they brought sound to thefilm in the early thirties. It changed the industry completely.
AC: But manmade none the less…
Dirk Brossé: True, but I think in general, not only in film or art but in our daily life, Artificial Intelligence is there. We cannot ignore it anymore. The question is: will it take over at some point?
I really believe that in the long run, maybe hundreds of years from now, man will have to leave the planet. Flash forward to the implosion of Earth: of course it won’t happen overnight but remember the dinosaurs also disappeared over a period of time…
Now we still are human beings and we act and think like human beings. But A.I. is not just around the corner anymore. It’s in the house.
AC: But since “A.I.” is “inspired” by what’s manmade, how to safeguard creator’s rights beyond our lifetime?
Dirk Brossé: This is a big thing indeed. All of us, in all sectors and all disciplines of art we have to think about it.
But A.I. is part of the evolution of mankind. Of course I can’t say that I’m thrilled by the idea that tomorrow a director will ask his computer to write a score instead of a composer. That would make me unhappy but at the same time a lot of things have disappeared over the course of our history. Some of us are already bionic. Wanting to evolve is part of our nature…
AC: Which brings us right back where we want to be: your winning score 🫶🌳🍀🍁🎼
The sound of Our Nature
AC: Let’s hope music and our cultural legacy will remain🤞
Dirk Brossé: Of course:)
AC: On somewhat shorter notice;), tell us about your future projects and the natural manmade creation process of your winning score:)🎶🍃🍀
Dirk Brossé: It was created during COVID. What is so special about this project is that I wrote the music without having seen the film.I just saw some rushes of the birds and few footage. The episodes are a connection of small stories. When I was asked to compose the score, they were still filming.
Actually I started composing around some keyboards 🎹, like procreation, the beauty of nature. But also the danger…the survival of the fittest; animals literally having to kill in order to survive…
The great advantage of this collaboration was that once the music was recorded they cut the picture to the music.
Dirk Brossé about the making of “Our Nature”
At some point I had to develop a language, which I did. But due to different directors who came and went in the process, guidelines kept changing… eventually leading us to this first more abstract approach.
AC: That must have been quite stressful, but with great results.
Dirk Brossé: Indeed, in the end it’s always the result that counts. Technically, to me it was important to be able to cut or bring back in bits of the music rather easily…
AC: AC is particularly moved by how you make the birdsounds merge within the music…(The Great Trek🎶🦅)
Dirk Brossé: Yes, the sounds of the birds are actually part of the music. The music always has a flow. How to say this, I like to leave room for imagination and bring some kind of peace into people’s minds, to make them enjoy the view…
AC: and the sound 💭🎵
Thank you Maestro🎼 For the inspiring talk👩🏻💻& sound 🎼 CongratZ again ! 🙌💐
As curator of the starting point of the Belgian European presidency in 2024, Dirk is preparing this major music event which also will be broadcasted on January 6th. Looking forward to all this major international homegrown talent shining on stage in the heart of Europe. Mechelen-Malines (Belgium) for the occasion. 🫶🇪🇺
We had high hopes but once again Oscar won’t land on Belgian soil this year. Film history is written though. Lukas Dhont and his cast and crew have definitely left their mark on Hollywood. Close might not have won the little statue but all the more hearts in cinemas worldwide 🌺🎞
Dear Lukas, Michiel, Angelo, Eden, Gustav & Cie, Belgium could not be more proud of your outstanding ambassadorship through this film. A cinematographic gem to cherish and already a classic.🙌
ArtistCongratz just for that! And a symbolic “screensilver oscar” to go with it. As a token from all viewers, touched by Remi and Leo’s story around the globe. Your very own magnificent once-upon-a-time-in-Hollywood to remember. As in “Everything Everywhere All at Once” 🎞🌺
Ok maybe not all at once 😉 but you will be back 🙌 for more. To be continued.
Which brings us to the ultimate highlight of Oscarnight. This film seems to have it all. Starting by the title. As inspiring as Close, poems might emerge. ArtistCongratz can’t wait to see leading ladies Michelle Yeoh and Jamie Lee Curtis acting their way to Oscar and parallel universes in “Everything, Everywhere, All at Once”
Ke Huy Quan, best actor in a supporting role, gave the most moving speech of the evening honoring his 84 year old mom back home. His story reads like a fairytale. Almost four decades after his role as Short Round along Harrison Ford and Kate Capshaw (Mrs. Steven Spielberg) in Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom, the former child actor wins an Oscar for his role as Waymond in Everything Everywhere All at Once. Congratz !
Which Oscarmovies besides Everything, Everywhere, All at Once, you consider absolute mustsees? Feel free to let us know, we will add them to this list.
These should be on 🔝 , according to ArtistCongratz ⤵️
🎬 Top Gun: Maverick, for obvious reasons, inspiring this years Oscarhost Jimmy Kimmel for a sky high entry 🪂 Lady Gaga performed her latest signature song live at the Dolby theatre
🎬 All Quiet on The Western Front, winning epic war saga, unfortunately all too topical still today
🎬 Women Talking, a revealing story about abused women in an isolated colony, written and directed by Sarah Polley, starring Frances McDormand and Claire Foy, aka the young Queen Elisabeth in The Crown 👑
🎬 The Whale, starring an amazingly transformed Brendan Fraser, best actor in a leading role.
🎬 The Fabelmans, a coming of age drama film by Steven Spielberg, starring Michelle Williams. And the also nominated Judd Hirsch at a dazzling age of 88🙌
🎬Triangle of Sadness: which won the Palme d’or in Cannes
🎬 And Close of course, a moving story about a close friendship between two young boys. From the same director as Girl, Lukas Dhont. His flower run scene will stay with you.🌺
Close, directed by Lukas Dhont, screenplay by Lukas Dhont and Angelo Tijssens. Cast: Eden Dambrinne, Gustav De Waele, Emelie Dequenne, Kevin Janssens…
But from all “women talking” at this years Oscars, the one and only best Actress 👸🏻 in a leading role wins again with this quote ❤️⤵️
“And, Ladies, Don’t let anybody tell you you’re ever passed your prime”
Michelle Yeoh
Prime Rhyme we might add. You might wanna read some poetry in motion, written by yours truly as a tribute to these 95th Oscars.
Say what? Amen to that, & ArtistCongratz Michelle Yeoh!
Starting by Lady Gaga and her most intimate performance, a breath of fresh air at the Oscars. Far from glam, but all the more captivating.🎶
Rihanna was one of the other popicons performing live on Sunday. Lenny Kravitz paid tribute to the legends we lost, after John Travolta’s moving introduction. His way to honour his legendary co-stars Kirstie Alley and Olivia Newton John. Remaining « hopelessly devoted, always »
Composer Volker Bertelmann won the Academy award for best original score in All Quiet On the Western Front. The German Netflix-remake of the original movie (1930) based on the 1929 novel by Erich Maria Remarque is probably the one movie keeping Belgium’s Close from winning the Oscar in the category best foreign film.
And then there was this moment when Hollywood turned into Bollywood 🇮🇳
Prepare for an even greater music hype following this years best Oscarsong. You won’t sit still to Naatu Naatu, it’s too catchy. An instant TikTok-revelation, even before the nomination. The song is from the blockbuster RRR, an entirely fictitious story about two Indian revolutionaries, dancing their way through three hours of spectacle. To be added to our previous wishlist 🎬
Warning for people with social-media-sensitive-epilepsy: This music-act is not TikTok-proof
Summertime! Calls for a special travel tip for all of you, 🇧🇪🌏🌞
If you’re exploring Belgium this Summer, ArtistCongratz recommends a special experience for classical music lovers, combining passion for nature, nostalgia and history.
In for a Tsjaikovski, Vivaldi, Rachmaninov, Bizet and Orff-revival amidst historic buildings of our cutest open air museum? Get flashed back into the golden age of these epic composers➡️the 17th and the 18th century.
Space to be is our most famous open air museum: Bokrijk, every sunday, starting July 3rd till August 7th, where this instrument’s🎹craftsmanship will be demonstrated.
Your musical guide is Daniel Verstappen, a young pianist featuring previous posts. He is on the rise and on our watch, almost since he started making his way. Highlights along that way include concerts with Anastacia, Andrea Bocelli, John Miles and of course his recent selection for the European Music Export Program, which lead him to Dubai, playing for our Belgian king and queen 👑 A new young Belgian “Richard Clayderman” is among us indeed.
Daniël is determined to make each detail count. In sound as well as performance. Touching and inspiring the listener are his main goals.
Daniel playing along Jos Essers, the author of a novel in which he reminisces towards his childhood at a Castle 🏰 hidden in the woods of Overijse. Dreamed top spot for this concert and the reading 📖🎹
So by all means, get swept away in Bokrijk by his adaptation of masterpieces like Four Seasons and Swan Lake🦢🎼
ArtistCongratz also attended the castle concert in Overijse. Now this is what we call: A Tune With A View⬇️
TUNES with a VIEW
More castle concerts are coming up. Check itinerary here and abroad on Daniel’s renewed website.
Details, speaking of which, this is Daniel’s lucky luxury charm, a golden pianobrooch (actually it’s a tie pin) with eleven brilliants (worth 6000 💶) he started wearing at his latest concerts following a joint-venture with UDT diamonds 💎 The owner of the company being a great admirer of Daniel’s work Not an easy process this design, it all starts with a 3 D drawing ✍️
Notice Daniel is wearing state of the art costumes, also matching his tunes like a charm. A special ArtistCongratzcall to rising designers out there; 🤵🏻♀️feel free to get in touch with Daniel 👔for brandnew fashionable joint (ad) ventures Presenting: a never ending piano story 🎼🎹
🎼”Floating”I-Partitions This track is called “Soulmate”, and that’s actually what the piano is to Daniel according to the young composer himselfBach in BokrijkDaniel presents 🎼Tsjaikovski’s Swan lake🦢, One of our absolute favourites
вітаю! Congratz to Ukraina! The invaded country manages to conquer the heart of Europe, in more ways than one. Eighteen years after Ruslana and her Wild Dances prevailed in Istanbul, and six years after Jamala won in Stockholm, Malush Orchestra repeats the victory in “Torino”🎶
Did the best song win last night? Maybe not. But something greater seems to have occurred across Europe that will for ever mark this 66th Eurovision contest in history.
Overwhelming support beyond an entire continent 🇪🇺for a country in dire straits because of the most lame invasion.
💙🏆 💛
“Wicked” Runner up United Kingdom 🇬🇧 said it all when interviewed by leading Lady Laura Pausini.
Here’s what Eurovision is all about:
« Unity, peace, love, togetherness! »
and let’s not forget “The Muse”: The Sound of Beauty indeed:
Here’s your blog’s personal Top 5, besides Ukraine 🇺🇦and Belgium 🇧🇪 of course;-). Well done Jérémie and Cie!
1. 🇳🇱The Netherlands “De Diepte” by a fine fairy from the North called S10 – Oooh, aaah; her song and her lived voice went deeep🎵👸- Stien appeared in a stylish black designersuit by Viktor & Rolf.
2. 🇮🇹Italia “Brividi” by Alessandro Mahmood and Blanco- « Grazie ancora per il 7 per Belgió e il 12 per questa profonda espressione olandese 🇳🇱 » Your own song really gave us « shivers » Or rather «Brividi»🎶📳
3. 🇪🇸Spain – The fastest «Slo Mo» ever by Chanel also wins “cutest bling costume” 🏟🐂👯♀️, What’s in a name?
4. 🇲🇹Malta – «I am what I am» True that, Emma Muscat sure knows how to put her Piano on Top🎹
5. 🇳🇴Norway – « Give that Wolf A Banana » Congratz Subwoolfer, Dances-With-Wolves🎬-is-now-officially-revisited🐺🍌🙃
Some more impressions of a swirling evening into a night full of suspense🔃
A Tik Tok star⏳ was in for a “wicked win”, almost…✌️🇬🇧 Congratz 🏃♂️ 🆙Sam -Space Man- Ryder! 🥈A very special mention for Laura Pausini, her stunning intro medley, dazzling x times changing wardrobe, and her a cappella performance accompanied by the entire audience in Turin. “Nel blu di pinto di blu…Volare.”💓 Also CONGRATULAZIONI on a magnificent presentation by Laura, Mika (flanking Laura in the boomerang♻️🔼) and Italian tv host Alessandro Cattelan🙌👌, by her side in the Volare moment.⬇️All time classic “Nel blú di pinto di blú is like a true Italian anthem worldwide🎶💙
Hope you didn’t miss out on the stunning performances by last years winner/revelation Måneskin and the one in 1964(!) Gigliola Cinquetti. They highlighted the evening while points were gathered from all 41 countries including Australia🇦🇺
« Supermodel », 🆕song by Måneskin🤌 the band’s badass bassplayer (also a millenniumbaby like our Jérémie), Victoria de Angelis rocks and embodies just that 🎸👯♀️ As well as lead singer Damiano David of course. A new virtual? statue of “The David” is in order. Michelangelo just might inspire a next Måneskinsong💭 🎵 🎑🌚
Gigliola, still a vision, and only 16 when she won in 1964🥇Did you know she participated twice? In 1974, coming in 2nd after ABBA (Waterloo) with only 6 points less then the Swedish fabulous four 🎶
Germany 🇩🇪turned out to be the ultimate underdog of the evening but Malik Harris took it like A RockStar, gracefully. « Your song, your win ❤️🩹 »
And last but certainly not least a thank you 🤗note to Serbia🇷🇸 to remind us of our basic Covidproof duties 🧺💦🧽🧴🚻 in order to be and stay healthy. “Biti zdrava, biti zdrava” means just that! Health IS our most precious gift 🎁 😷🩺⚕️ Music helps us to cherish it, an ultimate key to our well being 🎼
Ciao Torino, alla prossima! Belgium for host!🇧🇪❤️🩹🇺🇦❓
As soon as Spring is within range, Eurovisionfever rises. But before moving to La Bella Italia thanks to one of the most succesfull winners of all time -Keep-shining-Måneskin- 🇮🇹🇩🇰ArtistCongratz would like to take you to a trip down memorylane.
München. April 1983. One of the most controversial Belgian Eurovision Entries ever is about to stun Europe.
Pas De Deux did not miss their Rendez-Vous with Belgian Music history.
Although they stranded in 18th place, the song remains legendary till this day.
Truth is Pas de Deux were way ahead of their time.
How cool it would be to help rediscover this cultsong once again by a whole new generation.
Now is the time.
Writer of the sing-along, Walter Verdin is proud to present a brandnew remastered live version as it was accompanied by the symphonic orchestra in München on April 23rd 1983.
Walter: Besides Spotify, it will also be available on CD and Vinyl. With the Eurovision logo etched inside the album as a bonus. I’ve always wanted to record the song with the original sound of the orchestra in München…
Walter Verdin presents Pas De Deux anno 2022
Rendez-Vous has lyrics that are as genius as they are brief and simple,
Rendez vous, maar de maat is vol en mijn kop is toe, basically means:
A date, but I’ve had enough and my head is « closed » but this album also contains the official English version in which the lyrics are slightly different but not lost in translation
“Better give it up, I don’t have a clue”
The repeated chorus on strong beats and symphonic orchestra strengthen the tune.
But enough talk, just listen and (re)discover Rendez Vous by Pas De Deux.
Time to spot some speorgnotes! Who will incarnate the magnificent Rachel Mc Adams as the ultimate ESC singer in Rotterdam this week?
In Belgium we have our very own nightingale who will give it a go this evening. Along with her partners in crime Alex Callier & Raymond Geerts, Geike Aernaert doesn’t seem to be in the wrong place.
Hope Congratz will be in order for Hooverphonic! Let’s start by putting on our Johnny Cash T-shirt 🤞
Almost two decades ago, Alex already made fun of it, “No more sweet music”, right? An oracle to a distant future in 2021. Enjoy this Hooverphonic throwback.
Apart from some hairdo’s, they haven’t changed that much 😉 picture by yours truly
Three Mediterranean springs ago I got the chance to experience this unique upclose concert of an R&B-legend from Haiti 🇭🇹 at Midembeach in Cannes.
This year I would not miss this Master in the MidemClass.
Thank you Jean Wyclef forthatunforgettable experience/Breltribute 👌in 2017 but also to welcome us last Friday in your scintillating studio and swipe us away with your Fender Rhodes!
Jean Wyclef in concert @ Midembeach in June 2017
“Inside the composerbrain”
Not only did Fugees’ Founding Father some explaining about how to make a sample different, traveling along all time classic “Guantanamera” he also made us relive the birth of some famous evergreens.
Carlos Santana first epiphany about “Maria Maria” through cultmovie West Side Story” for starters. And of course his own R&B gifts to the world:
Killing me softly with his song slash other famous quotes like “Someone please call 911”
Shaping a space program? Heaven on art. My admiration never had limits when it comes to Astronauts. Capital A Artists of space and science.
No magic kingdom compares to my NASA visit back in 2017. As close to space as it gets (so far ;)) Yesterdays launch sure brought back some great flashbacks.
So CongratZ to the Artists of Space and science. Yesterday a new chapter in universal history unfolded, written in the stars.
Inside Kennedy Space Center 2017: Flash forward to Falcon 🚀 x Of Course I Still Love You ❤️
Say May, say ESC, but unfortunately no can do this way.
So for the first time in a zillion years, there will be NO Eurovision Song Contest to inaugurate Spring across our beautiful continent.
Poor next door neighbours up north, this was supposed to be their moment of glory after their second (solo)win in history last year with Arcade by Duncan Laurence.
Feeling sorry for their temporary loss and to ease the pain a bit, I ‘d like to pay them this small but sincere tribute on ArtistCongratZ.
Starting by a top collection of Dutch winners and all time favourite candidates. No ranking, just toppers.
Bonus 1: one extra hymne out of category but never of date from🇳🇱 to 🇧🇪 “alles voor het goede 🎯 “ nothing to do with ESC but it surely meets all the requirements 💘
Bonus 2: Keep reading till the end to find proof of my surprise encounter on Dutch soil with the most unstoppable Eurovision Song Contest winner of all times 🇦🇹😊
But first things first: Top collection Made in Holland
See you next year dear Eurovisionfans around the globe 🌎 🇪🇺💙💛❤️
Yours truly seems to have common grounds with this unstoppable lalalady, faux fur and excellent taste in Belgian music 🇧🇪. This picture was taken last January after an amazing showcase by Charlotte Adigéry @ Eurosonic 2020. No social distance just yet 😘
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