Hind Laroussi هند العروسي | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Hind Laroussi Tahiri |
| Born | (1984-12-03)3 December 1984 (age 40) |
| Origin | Gouda, Netherlands |
| Genres | Founder of Cross-pop |
| Occupation | Singer |
| Years active | 2003–present |
| Labels | B-Hind |
| Website | hind |
Hind Laroussi Tahiri (Arabic:هند العروسي born 3 December 1984), known professionally asHind, is a Dutch singer ofMoroccan descent.
Hind Laroussi Tahiri was born on 3 December 1984 inGouda, Netherlands. She has aMoroccan father and aDutch mother.[1]
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 theTMF 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 theSoundmixshow 2002, and took part in the finals, where she imitatedVanessa Williams. Hind also took part in the first edition of the talent showIdols in 2003, finishing in third place. She also performed with theArab Orchestra of Nazareth[2] from Israel.
Hind, who singsR&B, pop andfado, is not afraid to experiment with different musical styles in different languages such asArabic andPortuguese. 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 anEdison for her debut album and on 25 October the same year she sang the song "A Felicidade" at a concert by Danny Malando inTuschinski. In September 2005, her second album,Halfway Home. came out. The first single. "Give Me A Sign" was a moderate success, but the singles that followed ("Halfway Home" and "Habaytek Besaif2) were not as successful. Recently it was announced that Hind's deal with record labelSONY & BMG had ceased, apparently due to poor sales. Hind has, however, found a new record label to accommodate her music:PIAS
Hind participated in the first edition of the DutchIdols in the season 2002–2003, where she reached the finals, finishing in third place.[1]
Her debut albumAround The World (2003) contains pop andR&B songs, but is also influenced by Portuguese andArabic music.[1] The album sold over 40,000 copies.[3] In 2004, she received anEdison award for Best New Dutch Artist. In 2005, Hind released her second albumHalfway Home, which she herself called "Arabpop" due to the Arabic influences in several of the songs. The single "Habbaytek Besaif" (2006) is aFairuz cover.[1]
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Hind represented the Netherlands in theEurovision Song Contest 2008 in Serbia with the song "Your Heart Belongs to Me".[3] However, she failed to make it past the semi-final stage.
On 23 November 2009 Hind started to raise €40,000 for her next CD onSellaband. The believers funded the sum in just 11 days.[4] On 8 December 2009 the second phase started, collecting €24,000 for promotion. This target was reached on 11 January 2011. Finally it was announced, Hind will collect an additional €30,000 to produce three videos. The third phase never started. Hind announced her new album Crosspop on 4 October 2010 in "De Melkweg" in Amsterdam.
On Saturday 16 October 2010 the new album broke at number 8 in the Dutch album top 100, the highest ranking yet of any of her albums. Her debut album entered the charts at number 9 after all of the exposure of Idols. Hind Crosspop was produced by the legendarySteve Power. Together with her boyfriend and manager Eddie Tjon Fo she released the album as an independent label. There were good reviews and even the direct attention of the German Livedome.de group that took the exclusive rights to broadcast the CD release party from the Melkweg (Amsterdam) with around 900 people present. Livedome broadcast the show live on 13 October as a live stream through 36 portals, creating much exposure and compliments for Hind as a singer as well as for her interesting new music style Crosspop.
| Year | Single | Album | Peak positions | |
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| 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" | Halfway Home | 29 | 15 |
| "Halfway Home" | – | 75 | ||
| 2006 | "Habaytek Besaif" | – | – | |
| 2008 | "Your Heart Belongs to Me" | Eurovision Song Contest 2008 | 27 | 16 |
| 2009 | "Morgen" | SpangaS op Survival Soundtrack | – | 17 |
| 2011 | "Wereldwijd orkest" | – | 1 | |
| 2013 | "Make it Count" | – | 11 | |
On 29 August 2009 Hind performed for the satirical programLet's Dance on Dutch networkRTL4 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 theDe Telegraaf newspaper.[5]
Het thema vrijheid is Hind op het lijf geschreven. Als dochter van een Marokkaanse vader en Nederlandse moeder is ze erg begaan met de wereld om haar heen en laat dat niet alleen bij woorden. Ze zette haar bekendheid in voor bijvoorbeeld Vluchtelingenwerk Nederland en ze heeft opgetreden met hetArab Orchestra of Nazareth om aandacht te vragen voor de problemen in de bezette gebieden.
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| Preceded by | Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 | Succeeded by |
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