Trijntje Oosterhuis

Born in Amsterdam in 1973, Trijntje Oosterhuis grew up in a family where music and culture were central, and she focused on singing from an early age. She rose to prominence in the early 1990s as the voice of the Dutch group Total Touch, founded with her brother Tjeerd Oosterhuis; the band blended pop, soul and R&B and was a regular presence on Dutch stages and festivals. After Total Touch disbanded at the end of the decade, she launched a solo career that took shape with the album “Trijntje Oosterhuis” (2003), noted for its pop and soul register with classical arrangements. She then moved toward a more jazzy, orchestrated repertoire, recording albums dedicated to Burt Bacharach’s songs — notably “The Look of Love” (2006) and “Who’ll Speak for Love” (2007) — in collaboration with the Metropole Orkest, affirming a style between vocal jazz, orchestral pop and ballads. Dividing her career between English- and Dutch-language projects, she alternates between cover records, original compositions and concert-hall tours, appears regularly on musical television programmes and stage collaborations in the Netherlands, and represented her country at the Eurovision Song Contest in 2015 with the song “Walk Along”, continuing a trajectory centred on pop, soul and jazz singing.