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Sarah Bettens

Sarah Bettens (born September 23rd, 1972 in Kapellen, Belgium) is the former lead singer of the Belgian band K's Choice. She is known for her enigmatic, smoky, raspy, husky voice. Her first solo album "Go" was released in 2004; she released an album "Scream" in 2005, which was followed by the release of "Shine" in 2007. "I had been wanting to do this for a long time," Bettens has said of her solo career. "It's a whole new challenge, and it kind of makes me feel like it's my first record. Everything has a new level of excitement to it, especially touring."

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The Experimental Tropic Blues Band

This is a band that has set out to continue the legacy of the big names of rock'n'roll - Johnny Cash, the Cramps, Elvis, Bo Diddley, Hasil Adkins - setting to music stories of damned souls. Though not known for being an exciting country, they are indeed from Belgium, and they do indeed manage to whip up an atmosphere of wild debauchery at all their gigs. Their performances are hot and spicy, frequently involving nudity, alongside their stomping bluesy rock'n'roll tunes. You'll drink up their sound and the atmosphere to the last drop.

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Gin Wigmore

Virginia "Gin" Wigmore is a New Zealand singer/songwriter who was born in Auckland, New Zealand, where she spent most of her childhood. However, while in Argentina at age 16 her father died of cancer. Upon her return to New Zealand, she articulated in song, the pain of losing her father. One of those early penned songs, “Hallelujah”, won the US-based International Songwriting Competition in 2004[2], when she beat 11,000 songwriting aspirants from 77 countries to become the youngest and only unsigned Grand Prize winner in the history of the ISC.

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soho grant

Soho is the female part of the Belgian band 'Coffee Or Not'. Inside of this project, she writes, sings, plays guitars, piano and keyboards, ... Their first album is out since September 2010 and the second one will be out in October 2011. Besides Coffee Or Not, she has collaborated with artists like Pierre Castor and has her own project 'Soho Grant'.

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T99

T99 is a techno/acid house music duo founded in Belgium by the end of the 1980s.
Patrick De Meyer started the act and produced some solo material before teaming up with Olivier Abbeloos. This resulted in the track Anasthasia which got fantastic response both in the club scene and the hit-charts.
The only full length album released by the duo is Children of chaos on which the vocals where done by Zenon Zevenbergen. T-99 is also a alternative roots rock band from Amsterdam.

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Eden

There are several bands called Eden: 1. - Eden is a Belgian female rock band, centered around the vocals of Roos Van Acker and Sofie Buyck.
After a few years of rehearsals under the name "The Sugarbrides", their debut single was the well-received song "My Boat" in 1996.
The band Eden broke through after a three-year-long period of deliberation, with the album "Seafood".
This debut album was preceded by the single "Star", which got a lot of attention through the accompanying video, in which the two female singers basically slaughter a Japanese sushi-lady.

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