Hind Laroussi
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Hind Laroussi Tahiri known professionally as Hind, is a Dutch
singer.
, Netherlands
. She has a Moroccan
father and a Dutch mother.
When Hind was eight years she sang and acted in public for the first time. Shortly thereafter she started taking singing lessons. At her high school she performed in numerous music shows. Her talent did not go unnoticed; she received an invitation to sing during the TMF
dancemasters party of the year in Germany
. All this resulted in a role in Tracks, a contemporary theatre group. Singing, dancing and cabaret lessons followed. At national level Hind came to the fore when she participated in the Soundmixshow
2002, and took part in the finals, where she imitated Vanessa Williams
. Hind also took part in the first edition of the talent show Idols
in 2003, finishing in third place. She also performed with the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth
from Israel
.
Hind, who sings R&B, pop
and fado
, is not afraid of experimenting with different musical styles in different languages such as Arabic and Portuguese
. One of her ambitions is to star in a major role in a musical
. While her Idols colleagues Jim Bakkum and Jamai Loman stormed the charts with their singles, Hind kept quiet, preparing her debut album Around the World. The first single, Summer All Over Again was released in September 2003 and became a success. The subsequent singles Weak and Sure As were not as successful. In 2004 the singer received an Edison for her debut album and on October 25 of the same year she sang the song A Felicidade at a concert by Danny Malando in Tuschinski
. In September 2005, her second album came out, Halfway Home. The first single Give Me A Sign was a moderate success, but the singles that followed (Halfway Home and Habaytek Besaif) weren't as successful. Recently it was announced that Hind's deal with record label SONY
& BMG had ceased, apparently due to poor sales. Hind has, however, found a new record label to accommodate her music: PIAS
in the season 2002–2003, where she reached the finals, finishing in third place.
Her debut album Around The World (2003) contains pop
and R&B
songs, but is also influenced by Portuguese
and Arabic music. The album sold over 40,000 copies. In 2004, she received an Edison award for Best New Dutch Artist. In 2005, Hind released her second album Halfway Home, which she herself called "Arabpop" due to the Arabic influences in several of the songs. The single "Habbaytek Besaif" (2006) is a Fairuz
cover.
Hind represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
in Serbia
with the song "Your Heart Belongs to Me
". However, she failed to make it past the semi-final stage.
On November 23, 2009 Hind started to raise € 40.000 for her next CD on Sellaband
. The believers funded the sum in just 11 days. On December 8, 2009 the second phase started, collecting € 30.000 for promotion. Finally it is announced, Hind will collect an additional € 30.000 to produce three videos. Hind announced her new album Crosspop on October 4, 2010 in "De Melkweg" in Amsterdam.
On Saturday October 16 (2010) the new album breaking at #8 at the Dutch album top 100. Great succes for Hind and a new personal record for her. The highest score so far with one of her albums. Her debut album entered the charts at #9 after all of the exposure of Idols. Hind Crosspop was produced by the legendary Steve Power. Together with her boyfriend and manager Eddie Tjon Fo she released the album as an independent label. Lots of good critics and even the direct attention of the German Livedome.de group that took the exclusieve rights to broadcast the CD release party from the Melkweg (Amsterdam) with around 900 people present. Livedome broadcast the show live on the 13th of October as a live stream through 36 portals. Creating huge exposure and lots of great compliment for Hind as a singer as well as for her new very interesting music style Crosspop.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
singer.
Biography
Hind Laroussi Tahiri was born on December 3, 1984 in GoudaGouda
Gouda is a city and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Gouda, which was granted city rights in 1272, is famous for its Gouda cheese, smoking pipes, and 15th-century city hall....
, Netherlands
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
. She has a Moroccan
Morocco
Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
father and a Dutch mother.
When Hind was eight years she sang and acted in public for the first time. Shortly thereafter she started taking singing lessons. At her high school she performed in numerous music shows. Her talent did not go unnoticed; she received an invitation to sing during the TMF
The Music Factory
The Music Factory is a pop music television channel that operates in Belgium .TMF previously operated channels in the Netherlands , the UK with TMF UK and Australia with . The brand is owned by MTV Networks International...
dancemasters party of the year in Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. All this resulted in a role in Tracks, a contemporary theatre group. Singing, dancing and cabaret lessons followed. At national level Hind came to the fore when she participated in the Soundmixshow
Soundmixshow
Soundmixshow is the original Dutch version of Stars In Their Eyes; it was hosted by Henny Huisman, as a live-vocals version of the increasingly obsolete Playback Show...
2002, and took part in the finals, where she imitated Vanessa Williams
Vanessa L. Williams
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an American pop-R&B recording artist, producer, dancer, model, actress and showgirl. In 1983, she became the first woman of African-American descent to be crowned Miss America, but a scandal generated by her having posed for nude photographs published in Penthouse magazine...
. Hind also took part in the first edition of the talent show Idols
Idols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....
in 2003, finishing in third place. She also performed with the Arab Orchestra of Nazareth
Arab Orchestra of Nazareth
The Arab Orchestra of Nazareth is an Israeli orchestra that plays Arab and Mediterranean music. It was founded in 1991 by conductor and musicologist Suhil Radwan....
from Israel
Israel
The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...
.
Hind, who sings R&B, pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and fado
Fado
Fado is a music genre which can be traced to the 1820s in Portugal, but probably with much earlier origins. Fado historian and scholar, Rui Vieira Nery, states that "the only reliable information on the history of Fado was orally transmitted and goes back to the 1820s and 1830s at best...
, is not afraid of experimenting with different musical styles in different languages such as Arabic and Portuguese
Portuguese language
Portuguese is a Romance language that arose in the medieval Kingdom of Galicia, nowadays Galicia and Northern Portugal. The southern part of the Kingdom of Galicia became independent as the County of Portugal in 1095...
. One of her ambitions is to star in a major role in a musical
Musical theatre
Musical theatre is a form of theatre combining songs, spoken dialogue, acting, and dance. The emotional content of the piece – humor, pathos, love, anger – as well as the story itself, is communicated through the words, music, movement and technical aspects of the entertainment as an...
. While her Idols colleagues Jim Bakkum and Jamai Loman stormed the charts with their singles, Hind kept quiet, preparing her debut album Around the World. The first single, Summer All Over Again was released in September 2003 and became a success. The subsequent singles Weak and Sure As were not as successful. In 2004 the singer received an Edison for her debut album and on October 25 of the same year she sang the song A Felicidade at a concert by Danny Malando in Tuschinski
Tuschinski
Pathé Tuschinski is a movie theater in the Netherlands, in Amsterdam, originally exploited by Abraham Icek Tuschinski, who had it built in 1921 at a cost of 4 million guilders, in a spectacular mix of styles, as designed by Hijman Louis de Jong; Amsterdam School, Jugendstil, Art Nouveau and Art Deco...
. In September 2005, her second album came out, Halfway Home. The first single Give Me A Sign was a moderate success, but the singles that followed (Halfway Home and Habaytek Besaif) weren't as successful. Recently it was announced that Hind's deal with record label SONY
Sony
, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....
& BMG had ceased, apparently due to poor sales. Hind has, however, found a new record label to accommodate her music: PIAS
PIAS Recordings
[PIAS] Recordings is the recorded music division of the [PIAS] Entertainment Group, a European independent artist and label services company.The record labels that operate under the [PIAS] Recordings umbrella are: Play It Again Sam, Wall of Sound and Different Recordings.Aside from the three London...
Musical career
Hind participated in the first edition of the Dutch IdolsIdols (Netherlands)
Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....
in the season 2002–2003, where she reached the finals, finishing in third place.
Her debut album Around The World (2003) contains pop
Pop music
Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...
and R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
songs, but is also influenced by Portuguese
Portugal
Portugal , officially the Portuguese Republic is a country situated in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Portugal is the westernmost country of Europe, and is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the West and South and by Spain to the North and East. The Atlantic archipelagos of the...
and Arabic music. The album sold over 40,000 copies. In 2004, she received an Edison award for Best New Dutch Artist. In 2005, Hind released her second album Halfway Home, which she herself called "Arabpop" due to the Arabic influences in several of the songs. The single "Habbaytek Besaif" (2006) is a Fairuz
Fairuz
Nouhad Wadi Haddad , famously known as Fairuz is a Lebanese singer who is widely considered to be the most famous living singer in the Arab world and one of the best known of all time...
cover.
Hind represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008
Eurovision Song Contest 2008
The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008...
in Serbia
Serbia
Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...
with the song "Your Heart Belongs to Me
Your Heart Belongs to Me (Hind song)
"Your Heart Belongs To Me" is an English language pop song by Dutch singer Hind, released as a single on April 14, 2008. The song is composed by Hind, Tjeerd van Zanen, and Bas van den Heuvel. The lyrics are written by Hind and Tjeerd van Zanen....
". However, she failed to make it past the semi-final stage.
On November 23, 2009 Hind started to raise € 40.000 for her next CD on Sellaband
Sellaband
Sellaband is a music website that allows artists to raise the money from their fans and the SellaBand community in order to record a professional album. It was set up by Johan Vosmeijer , Pim Betist , and Dagmar Heijmans in August 2006. Its offices are located in Amsterdam, Netherlands, but it was...
. The believers funded the sum in just 11 days. On December 8, 2009 the second phase started, collecting € 30.000 for promotion. Finally it is announced, Hind will collect an additional € 30.000 to produce three videos. Hind announced her new album Crosspop on October 4, 2010 in "De Melkweg" in Amsterdam.
On Saturday October 16 (2010) the new album breaking at #8 at the Dutch album top 100. Great succes for Hind and a new personal record for her. The highest score so far with one of her albums. Her debut album entered the charts at #9 after all of the exposure of Idols. Hind Crosspop was produced by the legendary Steve Power. Together with her boyfriend and manager Eddie Tjon Fo she released the album as an independent label. Lots of good critics and even the direct attention of the German Livedome.de group that took the exclusieve rights to broadcast the CD release party from the Melkweg (Amsterdam) with around 900 people present. Livedome broadcast the show live on the 13th of October as a live stream through 36 portals. Creating huge exposure and lots of great compliment for Hind as a singer as well as for her new very interesting music style Crosspop.
Singles
| Year | Single | Album | Peak positions | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Top 40 | Dutch Top 100 | |||
| 2003 | "Summer All Over Again" | Around The World | 11 | 7 |
| 2004 | "Weak" | 31 | 22 | |
| "Sure As" | - | 35 | ||
| 2005 | "Give Me A Sign Give Me a Sign -Music video:On February 17, a music video was put into the planning process. The band shot the video for "Give Me a Sign" with acclaimed director Nigel Dick... " |
Halfway Home | 29 | 15 |
| "Halfway Home" | - | 75 | ||
| 2006 | "Habaytek Besaif" | - | - | |
| 2008 | "Your Heart Belongs to Me Your Heart Belongs to Me (Hind song) "Your Heart Belongs To Me" is an English language pop song by Dutch singer Hind, released as a single on April 14, 2008. The song is composed by Hind, Tjeerd van Zanen, and Bas van den Heuvel. The lyrics are written by Hind and Tjeerd van Zanen.... " |
Eurovision Song Contest 2008 Eurovision Song Contest 2008 The Eurovision Song Contest 2008 was the 53rd edition of the Contest. It was hosted in Belgrade, Serbia after Marija Šerifović won the 2007 Contest in Helsinki, Finland. This year was the first contest to have two semi-finals which were held on 20 and 22 May, and the final held on 24 May 2008... |
27 | 16 |
| 2009 | "Morgen" | SpangaS op Survival Soundtrack | - | 17 |
Miscellaneous
August 29, 2009 Hind performed for the satirical program "Let's Dance" on Dutch network RTL4 where she had her own nipple-gate. During her dance the dress she wore dropped and revealed her left breast. Hind was aware of the happening but hoped no-one saw it. When she looked back at the footage she was shocked as she never intended to pose nude she stated to the Telegraaf newspaper.External links
- Hind (official website)
- Telegraaf Nipplegate article with pictures (Dutch)