Jordy van Loon (born 16 June 1993)
is a Dutch child singer who reached number one in the Dutch Single Top 100 with his single "Verliefdheid".
Personal life
Jordy van Loon, who has
ADHD
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder characterised by excessive amounts of inattention, hyperactivity, and impulsivity that are pervasive, impairing in multiple contexts, and otherwise age-inapp ...
,
is the middle son of Daniëlle and Dennis van Loon.
Jordy was born in
Voorburg
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and lives in
Zoetermeer
Zoetermeer () is a city in the Western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The municipality covers an area of of which is water. A small village until the late 1960s, it had 6,392 inhabitants in 1950. By 2013 this had grown to 123,328 ...
.
He has two older brothers and two younger sisters. In 2006, his aunt entered him in a local radio contest in which he had to send in an original answering machine message for the phone of his idol
Frans Bauer
François (Frans) Bauer (born 30 December 1973 in Roosendaal as François van Dooren) is a Dutch singer of "levenslied" (Dutch Schlager).
Biography
Frans Bauer was born as François van Dooren, after his mother Wies van Dooren who wasn't marri ...
. He won the competition and got to sing Bauer's song "Hé lekker ding" together with Bauer during a meet and greet.
Career
In an episode of
Paul de Leeuw
Paul Henri de Leeuw (born 26 March 1962) is a Dutch television comedian, singer and actor.
De Leeuw gained national fame in the late eighties and early nineties with television shows for broadcasting company VARA. Though satire was only a part ...
's television show ''
Mooi! Weer de Leeuw
''Mooi! Weer De Leeuw'' (Dutch: "Great! De Leeuw Again") was a popular Dutch television show hosted by comedian Paul de Leeuw, that ran from 2005 to 2009. The programme was produced by VARA, one of the contributors to the Dutch public broadcastin ...
'', broadcast on 5 April 2008, van Loon was in the audience with his teacher Mr. Rol. Unbeknownst to him, Rol had sent in a wish to the program. He wanted to literally execute the Dutch
idiom
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"iemand achter het behang plakken" (commonly used to describe an action one would like to perform on an annoying individual) and paste Jordy behind a piece of wallpaper because he sang too often in class. While being glued behind the wallpaper, he performed the
Wim Sonneveld
Willem "Wim" Sonneveld (; 28 June 1917 – 8 March 1974) was a Dutch cabaret artist and singer. Together with Toon Hermans and Wim Kan, he is considered to be one of the 'Great Three' of Dutch cabaret. Sonneveld is generally viewed as a Dutch cu ...
song "Het Dorp" (in English: the village), which received loud applause from the audience and resulted in six different companies calling in to offer him a record deal;
he decided to sign with producer Jan Zwarteveen from JAZ Music who watched the show from the South of France.
van Loon's single was originally supposed to be released in August, but because producer JAZ Music was not satisfied with the result of "Zomer in Nederland", everything had to be redone.
In 2008,
3FM DJs
Giel Beelen
Michiel Antonius Adrianus Beelen (born 25 May 1977 in Haarlem), better known as Giel Beelen, is a Dutch radio DJ and presenter, working primarily for public broadcaster VARA. Since 2004 Beelen hosted his own breakfast show ''GIEL!'' on national r ...
, Coen Swijnenberg and Paul Rabbering spent a week in a glass house in
Breda
Breda () is a city and municipality in the southern part of the Netherlands, located in the province of North Brabant. The name derived from ''brede Aa'' ('wide Aa' or 'broad Aa') and refers to the confluence of the rivers Mark and Aa. Breda has ...
without eating for their
Serious Request
Serious Request is a family of annual multi-day, multimedia fundraising events for International Red Cross initiatives, typically hosted by radio stations in the week before Christmas. The project was begun in 2004 by Dutch public pop music ra ...
. They chose "Verliefdheid" as that year's anthem.
It became the most requested song and raised €1 million for the
Red Cross
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.
van Loon performed live when the DJs exited the house.
DJ
Armin van Buuren
Armin Jozef Jacobus Daniël van Buuren ( , ; born 25 December 1976) is a Dutch DJ and record producer from Leiden, South Holland. Since 2001, he has hosted ''A State of Trance'' (ASOT), a weekly radio show, which is broadcast to nearly 40&nbs ...
made his own mix of "Verliefdheid" during his stay in the Glass House.
On 17 January 2009, van Loon's single reached number one in the Single Top 100,
beating
Marco Borsato
Marco Roberto Borsato (; born 21 December 1966) is a Dutch singer. Born in Alkmaar, North Holland, he started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994. He has consistently been one of the most successful and biggest grossing artist ...
's single ''"Dochters"'' which dropped to the third position.
The single held the top spot for one week and was in the charts for 19 weeks.
Discography
Albums
Singles
References
External links
Official website*
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1993 births
Living people
Dutch child singers
People from Voorburg
21st-century Dutch singers
People with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder