{"id":1898,"date":"2015-11-16T06:39:55","date_gmt":"2015-11-16T05:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/?p=1898"},"modified":"2015-11-19T00:07:41","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T23:07:41","slug":"dit-zijn-de-5-kandidaten-van-eurosong-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songfestival.be\/en\/eurosong2016\/dit-zijn-de-5-kandidaten-van-eurosong-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"These are the 5 candidates of ‘ eurosong 2016 ’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Adil A, Astrid Destuyver, Tom Frantzis, Laura Tesoro or Amaryllis Uitterlinden. One of these five candidates will represent Belgium in the Eurovision song contest by 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden.<\/p>\n

The VRT allows the five contenders for this morning at a press conference. It will also be released more details about the new concept of eurosong<\/em>. The VRT will extract for 2016 with a unique musical concept in which only top talents may give the best of themselves. Laura Tesoro and especially Amaryllis Uitterlinden are the best known participants.<\/p>\n

Make all knowledge with the five candidates or discover them on our<\/strong> special candidates pages<\/a> .\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

1 \u2013 Laura Tesoro<\/strong><\/p>\n

Laura is very popular with the young audience. So she is together with Koen Crucke, Giovanni Kemper and Gert Verhulst juror<\/b> during auditions by Ketnet Musical<\/i><\/b>. Her career started thanks to Ketnet, because in 2010 name Ketnetpop<\/i>she participated in.\u00a0She was second in 2014 in The Voice of Flanders<\/i><\/b> and spent all some singles from where they reached the Ultratop.\u00a0Tesoro, is also an actress. So she played Charlotte in VTM-soap Family<\/i><\/b> and had guest roles in the popular Always Price<\/i> and Walsh<\/i>. She is a regular guest in game shows on television.<\/p>\n

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2 \u2013 Amaryllis Uitterlinden<\/strong><\/p>\n

Uitterlinden is by far the most famous participant to our Flemish heat. She is singer-songwriter, actress, and television personality.\u00a0In 2013, she was the female voice on the album of Ozark Henry, still Member of the jury at eurosong<\/i>in 2014. With the song I’m Your Sacrifice <\/i><\/b>they were 27 weeks in the Flemish Ultratop, while the full album 74 weeks insisted and to number one lane. They also had much success with the hit single brought in Wallonia and even gold in Italy<\/b>. Amaryllis finally stepped out of the project because they got agenda problems. She is a popular singer and released her own album out in 2009.\u00a0She acted all in Ella<\/i>, Danni Lowinski<\/i> and Missing<\/i>. In 2014, she made her debut on the silver screen in the film Braban\u00e7onne<\/i><\/b>. She plays the lead role<\/b>immediately.\u00a0They came very recently in the media as presenter of the sensational documentary<\/b> The are but words?<\/i> about sexism on the street.\u00a0This year, she released her at Q-Music<\/span> own version<\/a> van <\/span> Take Me To Church<\/em> by Hozier.<\/span><\/p>\n

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3 \u2013 Adil A<\/strong><\/p>\n

This young man been trying for a long time a musical career. In 2007 he made the live shows of Idol<\/i><\/b> but could not win. He also took part in all Can You Duet<\/i>. Then it became quiet again around Adil.\u00a0He spent all what singles <\/a>out, but who remained under the radar<\/strong>.\u00a0A sings with the group Adil & a. k. A<\/b>. Under this name they recorded an album and they went in duet with Dievanongs Slongs<\/b>. His father is Moroccan<\/b>, his mother is half Spanish<\/b>.<\/p>\n

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4 \u2013 Astrid Decoste<\/strong><\/p>\n

Astrid is a new talent that her chance ventures in eurosong<\/em>. She takes provisional especially covers <\/a>of well known hits and post them on social media. Every now and then state them on a stage, but then let her last name.\u00a0Venu made already for the vocals at AKS<\/a>, a band already on Pukkelpop<\/em> <\/strong>.\u00a0In addition to singing, she also writes music.<\/p>\n

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5 \u2013 Tom Frantzis<\/strong><\/p>\n

Also Tom is a new talent<\/b> in the race to Stockholm. Tom is a student<\/b> at the University of Antwerp where he communication follows.\u00a0With his own music he came a few times already for at on MNM and gave this summer a small gig <\/strong>at Q-Music<\/a>. In 2014, he released his debut single Grown<\/i> out. Tom takes a lot of covers on and can play guitar<\/b> .<\/p>\n

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