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Hannah Mae Schoonbeek (born 16 November 1998), known professionally as Hannah Mae, is a Dutch
singer-songwriter A singer-songwriter is a musician who writes, composes, and performs their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies. In the United States, the category is built on the folk- acoustic tradition with a guitar, although this role has ...
from Emmen,
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Biography

Hannah Mae began writing songs when she was sixteen. Her song "Back to You" reached first place in the
Tipparade The Dutch Top 40 () is a weekly music chart compiled by ''Stichting Nederlandse Top 40''. It started as a radio program titled "Veronica Top 40", on the offshore station Radio Veronica in 1965. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, wh ...
in 2019 and would be used in an advertisement for the Dutch supermarket
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. During the filming of a local music program, she said that
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was a musical inspiration. Shortly after, DeLange signed her to her record label, Spark Records. In 2021, after the
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had ended, Mae started her "Little Things Tour" through the Netherlands and released her first Dutch song "De kerkstraat". She decided soon after to only write songs in Dutch. In November 2022, she released "Wat wil je van mij", a duet with the Belgian singer
Metejoor Joris Van Rossem (born 4 January 1991), known artistically as Metejoor, is a Belgian pop singer who sings in Dutch. He topped the Ultratop charts in Flanders with the singles "1 op een miljoen" and "Dit is wat mijn mama zei", from his self-titled ...
. In November 2023, she released "Waterdicht", a personal song written for her mother which addresses topics of mental health. In the song, Mae emphasizes that showing emotion is not a weakness but rather a path to connection and empathy with others. The song reached number nine in the Dutch Top 40. In May 2024, she released "Ik wil dat je liegt" with Belgian singer Maksim, which won the Radio 2 Summer Hit award in Belgium. She participated in season 17 of ''
Beste Zangers ''Beste Zangers'', formerly ''De beste zangers van Nederland'' (English: ''The Best Singers (of the Netherlands)''), is a Dutch reality television show by public broadcaster AVROTROS (a merger of AVRO and TROS, both part of the Netherlands Publi ...
'', which began airing in September 2024.


Discography


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mae, Hannah Living people 1988 births Dutch singer-songwriters