Follow That Dream also known as F.T.D. or FTD was a Dutch pop band made up of Vanessa Eman, Rosa Vuik, Linda Burg Wrath, Peter van der Meer, Ben Saunders

Ben Saunders (singer)

Ben Saunders is a Dutch singer who won the first-ever title of the Dutch singing competition series The Voice of Holland broadcast on RTL 4. The final of 2010-2011 season was held live on 21 January 2011. Saunders is also a tattoo artist and a Mixed martial arts fighter. He is popularly known as...

, Dean Saunders

Dean Saunders (singer)

Dean Saunders is a Dutch singer. On 22 January 2011, he won in 2011 the Dutch version of Popstars in its third season in 2010-2011.-Career:...

. Vanessa Eman was the lead singer of the band.

The band was formed in 2000 to take part in the Dutch singing competition Alles Voor De Band on RTL 4

RTL 4

RTL 4 is a commercial television station in the Netherlands. It is the most-watched commercial station in the country, popular especially with those aged between 20 and 49. The station has three sister tv channels: RTL 5, RTL 7 and RTL 8...

. The band had its debut hit single, the self-titled "Follow That Dream" taken from their album The Album. They followed it up with the single "One Night in Shanghai".

In May 2001 the group decided to split up, during the hype of the rival and much more popular Starmaker series.

After the split

Some members of the band continued with a solo artists:

• In 2002, immediately after the split-up if the band, lead singer Vanessa Eman took part in the 2002 season of the Dutch Idols
  Idols (Netherlands)
  Idols is a television show on the Dutch television network RTL 4, which is part of the Idol series based on the popular British show Pop Idol. The show is a contest to determine the best young singer in the Netherlands....
  
  . She sang Irene Cara
  Irene Cara
  Irene Cara is an American singer and actress. Cara won an Academy Award in 1984 in the category of Best Original Song for co-writing "Flashdance... What a Feeling." She is also known for her recording of the song "Fame", and she also starred in the 1980 film Fame.She married Hollywood stuntman...
  
  's "Out Here on My Own", but was eliminated in week 2 of the competition.
• Band members and brothers in real life Dean Saunders
  Dean Saunders (singer)
  Dean Saunders is a Dutch singer. On 22 January 2011, he won in 2011 the Dutch version of Popstars in its third season in 2010-2011.-Career:...
  
   and Ben Saunders
  Ben Saunders (singer)
  Ben Saunders is a Dutch singer who won the first-ever title of the Dutch singing competition series The Voice of Holland broadcast on RTL 4. The final of 2010-2011 season was held live on 21 January 2011. Saunders is also a tattoo artist and a Mixed martial arts fighter. He is popularly known as...
  
   formed the band "Brothers" singing "Stand As One" at the Nationaal Songfestival
  Nationaal Songfestival
  Nationaal Songfestival is the name for the Dutch preselection for the Eurovision Song Contest. It started in 1956. It was organized until 1969 by Dutch television Nederlandse Televisie Stichting . Then the broadcaster Nederlandse Omroep Stichting took over the event...
  
   in 2003 in a failing bid to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest
  Eurovision Song Contest
  The Eurovision Song Contest is an annual competition held among active member countries of the European Broadcasting Union .Each member country submits a song to be performed on live television and then casts votes for the other countries' songs to determine the most popular song in the competition...
  
  . They finished 7th out of 8 candidates.
• Ben Saunders
  Ben Saunders (singer)
  Ben Saunders is a Dutch singer who won the first-ever title of the Dutch singing competition series The Voice of Holland broadcast on RTL 4. The final of 2010-2011 season was held live on 21 January 2011. Saunders is also a tattoo artist and a Mixed martial arts fighter. He is popularly known as...
  
   won the first-ever title of The Voice of Holland
  The Voice of Holland
  The Voice of Holland is a Dutch reality singing competition, created by media tycoon John de Mol, and currently airing on RTL4 in the Netherlands. Hosted by Martijn Krabbé and Wendy van Dijk it is currently the number 1 show in the Netherlands, with increasing ratings from 1.6 to 3.0 million viewers...
  
  on 21 January 2011
• His older brother Dean Saunders
  Dean Saunders (singer)
  Dean Saunders is a Dutch singer. On 22 January 2011, he won in 2011 the Dutch version of Popstars in its third season in 2010-2011.-Career:...
  
   won the title of the third season of Popstars
  Popstars (Netherlands)
  Popstars is a singing competition series in The Netherlands. The first series started on 22 August 2008. A second series was aired for 2009-2010 and third series aired in 2010-2011. The winners in season 1 were RED! made up of the three finalist winners Brandi Russell, Steffie Zoontjes and Deon Leon...
  
  on 22 January 2011.

Singles

• 2000: "Follow That Dream" (reached #25 on Dutch Top 40)
• 2001: "One Night in Sganghai"