Brace (singer)
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Eddy Brace Rashid MacDonald |
| Also known as | Brace |
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23 August 1986 Surabaya, Indonesia |
| Genres | Hip hop, R&B |
| Instruments | singing |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Website | www |
Eddy Brace Rashid MacDonald (born 23 August 1986), shortened to Brace, is a Dutch singer, who collaborates with famous Dutch rapper Ali B, who helped to bring Brace to stardom after their first musical collaboration on the hit single Moppie released in the summer of 2004.
He competed on the sixth season of the Dutch reality singing competition The Voice of Holland finishing in third place.
Brace was born in Surabaya, Indonesia, as a child of Surinamese parents. The family moved to the Netherlands, where he was raised in Amsterdam. His father Eddy MacDonald is a songwriter and his brother is a singer in the R&B groups K Shaw and VIP Allstars. Since he was eleven years old, he began to perform regularly on German stages, because his act was considered too young in the Netherlands.
When Brace was 16, his father died. After this traumatic experience, the young singer would not go to school and he put his focus on his singing career. He practiced his freestyle sessions in the barn of Lange Frans' parents. Together with Lange Frans, Brutus, Negativ, Yes-R, he was part of the hip hop group called D-Men.
He won the Talent of the Kwakoe Summer Festival and went to win the national finals of the Kunstbende in Utrecht.
Rappers Lange Frans and Baas B who were established pop acts in the Netherlands, asked him to collaborate with them on the single Moppie. The single instantly topped the Netherlands Pop charts in the summer of 2004 and Brace made his national breakthrough.
Following the success of the hit single Moppie, Ali B recognized Brace's talent and worked with him on his song "Ik Ben Je Zat". The song reached the Top 5 in the Dutch charts, projecting Brace as a prominent vocalist.
On his first single, Vraag jezelf eens af, he is accompanied by Ali B with beatboxing.
The R & B artist impressed when he sang live in Amsterdam and played an important role in the tour Ali B vertelt het leven van de straat (English translation " Ali B tells the life of the street"). The R&B artist also appeared on the radio programme 3VOOR12 where he sang Vraag jezelf eens af (English translation "ask Yourself"), a song that he sings on tour with Ali B.
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