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Michelle Davina Hoogendoorn (born 12 November 1995), known by her stage name Davina Michelle, is a Dutch singer and YouTuber.

In 2018, her cover of the song "Duurt te lang" reached the number one spot on the Dutch Top 40, becoming the first woman in 11 years to do so with a Dutch-language song. " Hoe het danst", her 2019 collaboration with Marco Borsato and Armin van Buuren, also reached number one and became the first Dutch-language song to record over 100 million streams on Spotify.

Career

Named after Michelle Pfeiffer and Davina McCall, Hoogendoorn comes from a family with three children. Around the age of four, she was a big fan of Britney Spears. She made it her goal to become the next Britney Spears, but kept this to herself. In secondary school, encouraged by her music teacher, she began performing for the webcam, but did not post these performances for her classmates. She asked her parents for a microphone and better software to record her voice for her eighteenth birthday. She posted the recordings on social media, and her friends and family were excited about the results. Still, she also caught the attention of the songwriter and production group Sub-Bass Music Group, who saw potential in her.

In 2016, Hoogendoorn participated in the fifth season of '' Idols''. During her audition, she sang Jessie J's " Nobody's Perfect", after which she went on to the theater round and the duet round, where she was eliminated.

In February 2017, Hoogendoorn started her own YouTube-channel under the pseudonym Davina Michelle, where she would upload her cover version of an English-language song every week. On 21 August 2017, she posted her cover of "What About Us" by the American singer Pink. In October, '' Glamour'' posted a video review by Pink where she called the cover amazing and said "That's better than I will ever sound". Hoogendoorn's video went viral, after which she performed multiple times in TV programs like ''RTL Late Night'' and ''De Wereld Draait Door'' and in various venues in the United States. As of October 2024, the video has over 24 million views and Hoogendoorn’s own channel has over 1 million subscribers. She also got to open for Pink during her Beautiful Trauma Tour in the Hague in 2019.

In December 2017, Hoogendoorn published the single "Ga" in cooperation with the Efteling and Sterre (played by Lilo van den Bosch). It served as the official soundtrack for the musical ''Sprookjessprokkelaar,'' created by the Efteling.

In 2018, Hoogendoorn participated in the eleventh season of the AVROTROS reality show ''Beste Zangers''. In the fifth episode, she performed a cover of the song "Duurt te lang" by rapper Glen Faria (also known as MC Fit). Two days after the episode was broadcast, the song reached the first place of most downloaded songs on iTunes in the Netherlands. Later in 2018, it reached the number 1 spot in the Dutch Top 40, the Mega Top 50 and the Dutch Single Top 100. In November 2018, the single was certified gold.

In March 2020, Hoogendoorn performed four "empty concerts" at the Rotterdam Ahoy during the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. She performed "17 miljoen mensen" with Snelle, an alteration of "" by Fluitsma & Van Tijn. It was released as a single and reached number one on the Dutch Top 40 for four weeks. At one minute and 47 seconds long, it became the shortest number-one hit in Dutch history.

On 18 May 2021, Hoogendoorn performed her new single "Sweet Water" at the first semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2021, held in her birth city Rotterdam, as part of an interval act titled "The Power of Water" alongside Dutch actress Thekla Reuten.

On 5 September 2021, Hoogendoorn performed the Dutch national anthem ahead of the 2021 Dutch Grand Prix at Circuit Zandvoort, the first Formula 1 race to be held in the country since 1985. She repeated her performance for the podium ceremony after Dutch driver Max Verstappen won the event. Her song "Beat Me" was supposed to be the official theme for the 2020 Grand Prix which was cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Discography

Albums

Singles

References

External links

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Davina Michelle Interview with www.femalevoices.de

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1995 births
Living people
21st-century Dutch singers
Dutch YouTubers
21st-century Dutch women singers