Sandra Kim

Just 13 years of age when she received the Eurovision Music Competition in 1986, Belgian songstress Sandra Kim was created Sandra Caldarone about Oct 15, 1972, in Montegnée, close to Liège. A vocalist since she was seven, Kim 1st found prominence in 1985, when she arrived in fourth in the Ambrogino D’oro Event in Milan, and released the “Ami Ami” solitary. The following yr, her Eurovision champion, “J’Aime la Vie,” noticed her end up being the contest’s youngest-ever champion. The single continued to sell near one . 5 million copies world-wide, while her debut album, entitled for the strike, was also a significant achievement. Among her follow-up singles, “Il Était une Fois la Vie” was made up by Michel Legrand and was the name track to a top-rated toon. Although Kim was by no means in a position to capitalize around the worldwide fame that adopted her Eurovision earn, she remained a significant celebrity in her homeland. The Bien dans Ma Peau recording premiered in 1988, and in 1990 she performed “J’Aime Mon Pays off” (I REALLY LIKE My Nation) for Ruler Baudouin and Queen Fabiola at a special event marking the monarch’s 60th birthday. That same 12 months she topped the Belgian graph for two weeks right with “Bel Me, Schrijf Me,” a duet with vocalist Luc Steeno. Turning her focus on tv, Kim was a co-presenter on Belgian TV’s Dix Qu’on Aime through the early ’90s and a panelist on Pour la Gloire later on in the 10 years. She also released the recording Balance Tout/Med Open up Ogen (the dual name reflecting both dialects of French and Flemish) in 1991 and Sixties (once again in both dialects) in 1993. Kim came back to the very best in 1997 when her duet with Frank Galan, “Door Veel Vehicle Mij Te Houden,” topped the graphs for a month. A full recording with Galan, Onvergetelijk, another duet smash, “Mijn Lieveling,” reignited Kim’s single career, and another two years noticed her to push out a string of strikes, including “Hou Vehicle Mij,” “Casser le Blues,” “Jij Hoort Bij Mij,” and “Back heel Diep In Mijn Hart,” a Celine Dion cover that also entitled Kim’s latest recording. In 1999 Kim made an appearance in the French-language creation of Les Misérables in Antwerp, before 2001 brought new strikes “Vivere Uguale” and “J’Ai Pas Fini de T’Aimer,” a French-language edition of Michael Jackson’s “I SIMPLY Can’t Stop Caring You.”