The Netherlands: S10's Eurovision 2022 entry to go public on March 3

The Netherlands: S10's Eurovision 2022 entry to go public on March 3
Wednesday, 23 February 2022

  • The song that the Dutch Eurovision 2022 representative, S10,  will be performing in Turin will go public on March 3. 

    The Dutch national broadcaster, AVROTROS, has confirmed that S10's Eurovision 2022 entry will be released on March 3, 2022. For this year the broadcaster has internally selected Singer Stien den Hollander, better known by her stage name S10, to represent the Netherlands at the next edition of the Eurovision Song Contest. A committee formed by Dutch television commentators Jan Smit and Cornald Maas along with radio-DJs Coen Swijnenberg and Sander Lantinga were the ones to come down with S10 as the next Dutch hopeful. 

    S10 will be the first performer in 12 years to represent the Netherlands with a Dutch-language entry. 

     

    A few words for S10

    Stien den Hollander , born in Abbekerk on November 8, 2000 is better known as S10. She is a Dutch rapper and singer.  She distinguishes herself with her own unique sound and voice. In her performances she raps, sings and tells personal stories in her own distinctive way.

    She was 17 years old when she signed with Dutch hip-hop label Noah's Ark in January 2018 . Her EPs Antipsychotics (2017) and Lithium (2018) are named after drugs typically prescribed for psychosis and bipolar disorder . S10 has been praised for her bold and honest lyrics about her mental health issues.

    Snowsniper (2019) was regarded by many as S10's proper full-length début album  for which she received an Edison in the alternative category.. Its follow-up, Vlinders, came out in November 2020. This year she received the Pop Stipendium at Eurosonic Noorderslag, the prize for a promising pop artist or band.

    Her latest, Adem je in, came out this summer, with a single by the same name that charted at number 15.

     

    The Netherlands in Eurovision

    The Netherlands has participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 60 times since making its debut as one of the seven countries at the first contest in 1956, and has missed only four contests so far (1985, 1991, 1995 and 2002).

    The Netherlands has won the contest four times, with Corry Brokken in 1957, Teddy Scholten in 1959, Lenny Kuhr in a four-way tie in 1969 and Teach-In in 1975,  The country has achieved some remarkable results in the past finishing 4th with Sandra & Andres (1972), 3rd with Mouth & MacNeal (1974), 5th with Maggie MacNeal (1980), 5th with Marcha (1987) and fourth with Edsilia Rombley (1998). Its worst results were in 1958, 1962, 1963, 1968, when it finished last and in 2011 when ending up last in the semifinal.

    Eurovision 2020 was set to take place in Rotterdam  after Duncan Lawrence’s Eurovision 2019 victory in Tel Aviv, with Jeangu Macrooy set to perform 'Grow" for the country. However the contest was cancelled due to the covid-19 pandemic and never had the chance to perform on home soil

    This year Rotterdam made it happen with the host nation being represented by last year's hopeful, Jeangu Macrooy who sang 'Birth of a new age' which finished 23rd in the overall score with only 11 points. 

     

    News Source: AVROTROS

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