Marlayne is a Dutch

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

 singer and presenter

Presenter

A presenter, or host , is a person or organization responsible for running an event. A museum or university, for example, may be the presenter or host of an exhibit. Likewise, a master of ceremonies is a person that hosts or presents a show...

, best known for her participation in the 1999 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...

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Eurovision Song Contest

Marlayne had mainly worked as a backing vocalist

Backing vocalist

A backing vocalist or backing singer is a singer who provides vocal harmony with the lead vocalist or other backing vocalists...

 for singers such as René Froger

René Froger

René Froger is a Dutch singer.He was born and spent his first years in the Jordaan, a neighbourhood in Amsterdam. His father, Bolle Jan, had a cafe that Froger started performing in. He began with Ted de Braak and Mini en Maxi and in 1987 he released his first single, Love Leave Me...

 when, in 1999, her song "One Good Reason" was chosen by a very comprehensive margin from ten competitors as the Dutch representative in the 44th Eurovision Song Contest

Eurovision Song Contest 1999

The Eurovision Song Contest 1999 was the 44th Eurovision Song Contest, held on 29 May 1999 in Jerusalem, Israel after Dana International won the contest the previous year in the United Kingdom. The venue for the contest was the International Convention Center...

 which took place on 29 May in Jerusalem. "One Good Reason" was a very contemporary song, and the first Dutch entry to be sung in English since 1976 (following the abolition of the national language rule for the 1999 contest). In the run up to the contest, "One Good Reason" had been considered one of the favourites for victory, so its eighth-place finish of the 23 entries, while respectable, was seen as somewhat disappointing.

Marlayne kept up her Eurovision connection as the spokesperson announcing the Dutch votes in 2000, 2001 and 2003.

Later career

Marlayne released her first, and to date only, album, Meant to Be, in 2001. In 2003 she became a presenter of news and current events programme Hart van Nederland on channel SBS 6. She has gone on to present several other entertainment shows, notably De Nieuwe Uri Geller, the Dutch version of The Successor.

Personal life

Marlayne has been married to drummer Danny Sahupala since 1998. She gave birth to her first child, a daughter, on 2 July 2009.

Discography

Singles

• 1999 - "Ik kan het niet alleen" (duet with Gordon Heuckeroth
  Gordon Heuckeroth
  Cornelis Willem Heuckeroth is a Dutch performer and radio and television personality, better known by his nickname Gordon...
  
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• 1999 - "One Good Reason"
• 2000 - "I Don't O U Anything"
• 2001 - "I Quit"
• 2001 - "Water for Wine"

Album

• 2001 - Meant to Be

External links

• Marlayne's official website (Dutch)