Iris Kroes
| Iris Kroes | |
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Iris Kroes, September 13, 2013
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| Background information | |
| Born |
11 November 1992 Drachten, Netherlands |
| Occupation(s) | Singer |
| Instruments | Vocals, harp |
| Years active | 2011-present |
| Labels | Independent |
| Website | www |
Iris Kroes (born 11 November 1992 in Drachten) is a Dutch singer-songwriter and harpist (She was called Harpmeisje (Dutch for Harp Girl)). She was the winner of the second season of the television program The Voice of Holland on January 20, 2012, making her the second female contestant worldwide to win the show after Steliyana Khristova, who won the Bulgarian version of the show.
Iris Kroes was born in a musical family. Her mother was a flute player, while her sister played clarinet and sang, and her father was an ongoing music encyclopedia. Under family influence, Iris began to learn harp while she was nine and immediately fell in love in harp playing.
Prior to her participation of The Voice of Holland, she had played harp for more than ten years and sang in a Drachten-based rock duo band with Pieter Veenstra, many times singing while playing the harp simultaneously. Meanwhile, she continued studying between 2005 and 2010 at the Drachtster Lyceum obtaining her high school diploma and following with a Communications Bachelor. In May 2009 she sang a big band.
Iris Kroes' entry of The Voice of Holland started from her Blind Audition at September 30, 2011 where she sang Someone Like You by Adele accompanied herself on harp. All of 4 Judges in this Blind Audition (, Angela Groothuizen, Nick & Simon and Van Velzen) pressed "I WANT YOU" button and turned their chairs around within first 15 seconds of her performance Kroes chose Borsato as her coach.
Kroes was a favourite from the beginning. Many of her renditions during the show became chart entries in the Dutch Single Top 100, like "Foolish Games" (#76), "Listen to Your Heart" (#83), "When Love Takes Over" (#100). Her rendition of Metallica's "Nothing Else Matters reached #16 on Single Top 100.
Her winning song and official debut single was Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" that entered the official Dutch Top 40 at #6, in its first week of release, also making it to #3 of the Single Top 100.
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