Soundmixshow is the original Dutch version of Stars In Their Eyes

Stars In Their Eyes

Stars in Their Eyes is a British television talent show that ran on Saturdays nights from 21 July 1990 until 23 December 2006 in which contestants impersonate showbiz stars...

; it was hosted by Henny Huisman

Henny Huisman

Hendrikus Josephus Huisman is a Dutch television presenter. He presented the Miniplaybackshow and the Soundmixshow in the 1980s and 1990s. Huisman is Patron of the Netherlands Positive / Nederland Positief.-External links:...

, as a live-vocals version of the increasingly obsolete Playback Show. It has since been sold to other countries, for instance the European Soundmix Show

European Soundmix Show

The European Soundmix Show was an imitation talent competition held yearly from 1996 to 1999, with two special shows in 2001 and 2002.The show was an international version of Joop van den Ende's "Henny Huisman Soundmixshow", which was aired on Dutch television the first time in 1985.Various...

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Early days

Huisman, who spent the 1970s drumming for Lucifer (of House For Sale-fame) and spin-off group Match, toured the early 1980s with his Hitkrant Drive-In Show; this prototype-version of the Playback-show was a joint venture with pop-weekly Hitkrant. In 1983 he brought the format on television during the summer-evening slot as KRO's Zomeravondshow ; contestants performed on a hit-or-miss basis.

Breakthrough

In 1984 the name was changed to Playbackshow and contestants were now given full performance time. Soon afterwards Huisman decided to do a spin-off with real vocals; thus the Soundmixshow was born with artists being judged by a jury of three
professionals featuring long-time stalwarts Jacques d'Ancona and Barry Stevens

Barry Stevens

Barry Stevens may refer to:* Barry Stevens , American basketball player and coach* Barry Stevens , American scientist, author, business developer and entrepreneur...

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The Soundmixshow meant a breakthrough for quite some talented young Dutch artists, as it was a platform with a relative low threshold and a broad audience. The Soundmixshow was produced by Endemol

Endemol

Endemol is an international television production and distribution company based in the Netherlands, with subsidiaries and joint ventures in 23 countries, including the United Kingdom, the United States, France, Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Dominican Republic, Poland,...

. Till 1990 for the KRO

KRO

KRO, or Katholieke Radio Omroep , is a Dutch public broadcasting organization founded on 23 April 1925. Broadly Catholic in its spiritual outlook, KRO broadcasts the bulk of its television output on the Nederland 1 channel. KRO is also responsible for managing broadcasts made by the Catholic Church...

, afterwards for RTL4 til 2002 .

In the finals of 1988, Huisman asked viewers to phone a specific number for televoting

Televoting

Televoting, telephone voting or phone voting is a method of decision making and opinion polling conducted by telephone. Televoting can also extend to voting by SMS text message via a mobile cell phone.- Broadcast contest televoting :...

. However, this caused such a big amount of phone calls, that the whole telephone grid was down for a while, and even the emergency services (police, ambulance, firefighters) were out of reach in some parts of the country.

Other spin-offs

From the latter half of the 1980s till the early 1990s Huisman presented the Miniplaybackshow as a platform for children; plans to do a Minisoundmixshow never materialised.

There was also a Seniorenplaybackshow, aimed at the elderly, and more successfully . the Sterrensoundmixshow (Celebrity Stars In Their Eyes).

In 2002 the Soundmixshow was the platform for a debate between politicians just before the parliamental elections.

Aftermath

In 2002 the format was discontinued in favor of Idols and other talent contests. Huisman, like many other contemporaries, was thanked for his services and spent a few years with evangelical broadcaster EO; he documented his quest for God and hosted the Dutch version of Last Choir Standing

Last Choir Standing

Last Choir Standing was a 2008 talent show-themed television series produced by the BBC in the United Kingdom. Broadcast on BBC One in July and August 2008, the series saw amateur choirs competing each week to be the 'last choir standing'....

(Korenslag). In 2010 he reunited with former Soundmixshow-contestants om KRO's anniversary-programme.

Successful contestants

• Petra Berger
• Marco Borsato
  Marco Borsato
  Marco Borsato is a Dutch singer. He started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994. He is married to Leontine Ruiters and has three children.-Biography:...
  
  
• Tooske Breugem
  Tooske Breugem
  Antonia Grietje Ragas-Breugem is a Dutch actress and television host. She played a stewardess in 06/05, a movie by Theo van Gogh about the murder of Pim Fortuyn. She was video jockey at TMF Netherlands and presented the Dutch version of Idols.-Life:Breugem was born in a Dutch Reformed family,...
  
  
• Georgie Davis
  Georgie Davis
  Georgie Davis is a Dutch singer who was one of the first participants of the Soundmixshow in 1985, in which he sang a song by Stevie Wonder....
  
  
• Glennis Grace
  Glennis Grace
  Glennis Grace is a singer from the Netherlands who in 2005 won the national selection in the Netherlands for the Eurovision song contest 2005 for the nation. Grace's song was the ballad My Impossible Dream, but she did not advance the semifinal...
  
  
• Gerard Joling
  Gerard Joling
  Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...
  
  
• Des'Ray Manders
• Edsilia Rombley
  Edsilia Rombley
  Edsilia Francisca Rombley is a Dutch singer. She participated in the Soundmixshow in 1996. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1998 and 2007.-Biography:...
  
  

List of winners in the Dutch Soundmixshow

Year	Artist	Original artist	Song	Additional information
1985	Glenda Peters	Randy Crawford Randy Crawford Randy Crawford is an American jazz and R&B singer. She has been more successful in Europe than in the United States, where she has not entered the Billboard Hot 100 as a solo artist...	One Day I'll Fly Away	Gerard Joling Gerard Joling Gerard Jan Joling is a Dutch singer and television presenter. Known for his high tenor voice, he rose to fame in the late 80's and released a string of singles including "Ticket to the Tropics", "Love is in your Eyes", and his biggest hit, "No more boleros", a song that reached the top 10 in...  was third this year
1986	Gina De Wit	Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt Linda Ronstadt is an American popular music recording artist. She has earned eleven Grammy Awards, two Academy of Country Music awards, an Emmy Award, an ALMA Award, numerous United States and internationally certified gold, platinum and multiplatinum albums, in addition to Tony Award and Golden...	Desperado
1987	Peter Douglas	Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra Francis Albert "Frank" Sinatra was an American singer and actor.Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist in the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943. Being the idol of the...	New York,New York
1988	Jos Van den Brom	John Denver John Denver Henry John Deutschendorf, Jr. , known professionally as John Denver, was an American singer/songwriter, activist, and humanitarian. After growing up in numerous locations with his military family, Denver began his music career in folk music groups in the late 1960s. His greatest commercial success...	Leaving on a Jet Plane	Desirée "Des'Ray" Manders made her tv debut. This was in a legendary final, where people could televote, but because of the huge number of votes, the whole phone grid was down.
1989	Carina Bos	Timi Yuro Timi Yuro Timi Yuro was an American soul and R&B singer. She is considered to be one of the first blue-eyed soul stylists of the rock era.-Early years:...	Hurt	Helmut Lotti Helmut Lotti Helmut Lotti , is a Flemish Belgian tenor and singer-songwriter. Lotti performs in several styles and languages: Once an Elvis impersonator, he has sung African and Latino hit records, and he crossed over into classical music in the 1990s.-Life and music:The son of Luc Lotigiers and Rita Lagrou,...  was also contestant
1990	Marco Borsato Marco Borsato Marco Borsato is a Dutch singer. He started performing in Italian before switching to Dutch in 1994. He is married to Leontine Ruiters and has three children.-Biography:...	Billy Vera Billy Vera Billy Vera is an American singer, actor, writer and music historian.-Life and career:Vera was born in Riverside, California. He began his singing career in 1962 as a member of the Resolutions. He went on to write several songs throughout the early 1960s, writing for the likes of Barbara Lewis,...	At This Moment
1991	Jorge Castro	Luciano Pavarotti Luciano Pavarotti right|thumb|Luciano Pavarotti performing at the opening of the Constantine Palace in [[Strelna]], 31 May 2003. The concert was part of the celebrations for the 300th anniversary of [[St...	Caruso	Kathleen Prattis sang as Anita Baker, Watch Your Step.
1992	Nhelly Dela Rosa	Shirley Bassey Shirley Bassey Dame Shirley Bassey, DBE , is a Welsh singer. She found fame in the late 1950s and was "one of the most popular female vocalists in Britain during the last half of the 20th century"...	This Is My Life
1993	Ellen Fransz	Whitney Houston Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...	I will always love you
1994	Glennis Grace Glennis Grace Glennis Grace is a singer from the Netherlands who in 2005 won the national selection in the Netherlands for the Eurovision song contest 2005 for the nation. Grace's song was the ballad My Impossible Dream, but she did not advance the semifinal...	Whitney Houston Whitney Houston Whitney Elizabeth Houston is an American singer, actress, producer and a former model. Houston is the most awarded female act of all time, according to Guinness World Records, and her list of awards include 1 Emmy Award, 6 Grammy Awards, 30 Billboard Music Awards, 22 American Music Awards, among...	One Moment In Time
1995	Arno Kolenbrander	Simon Bowman Simon Bowman Simon Bowman is a British actor and singer, born in, Cardiff and trained at Mountview Theatre School. He is best known for creating the role of Chris, opposite Lea Salonga's Kim, in the original production of Miss Saigon at Theatre Royal Drury Lane in the West End.Prior to that, he was Marius in...  (uit de musical Miss Saigon Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...	Why God, Why	Tooske Breugem Tooske Breugem Antonia Grietje Ragas-Breugem is a Dutch actress and television host. She played a stewardess in 06/05, a movie by Theo van Gogh about the murder of Pim Fortuyn. She was video jockey at TMF Netherlands and presented the Dutch version of Idols.-Life:Breugem was born in a Dutch Reformed family,...  was also contestant
1996	Edsilia Rombley Edsilia Rombley Edsilia Francisca Rombley is a Dutch singer. She participated in the Soundmixshow in 1996. She represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest twice, in 1998 and 2007.-Biography:...	Oleta Adams Oleta Adams Oleta Adams is an American soul, jazz, and gospel singer and pianist.-Biography:Adams was born the daughter of a preacher and was raised with gospel music. In her youth her family moved to Yakima, Washington, which is sometimes shown as her place of birth.Before gaining her opportunity to perform,...	I Just Had To Hear Your Voice
1997	Mary Ann Morales	Lea Salonga Lea Salonga Lea Salonga-Chien is a mezzo-soprano singer and actress from the Philippines well known for originating the lead role of Kim in the musical Miss Saigon, for which she won the Olivier, Tony, Drama Desk, Outer Critics and Theatre World awards.She was the first Asian to play the roles of Éponine and...   (from the musical Miss Saigon Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It is based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tragic tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman abandoned by her American lover...
1998	Cherwin Muringen	Seal Seal (musician) Seal Henry Olusegun Olumide Adeola Samuel , known simply as Seal, is a British soul and R&B singer-songwriter, of Nigerian and Brazilian background. Seal has won numerous music awards throughout his career, including three Brit Awards—winning Best British Male in 1992, four Grammy Awards, and an...	Kiss From A Rose	Floortje Smit Floortje Smit -Career:Smit's career started in season three of the Dutch TV talent show Idols, the Dutch spin-off of Pop Idol. In a surprising twist, Smit, a big audience favorite with her girl-nextdoor image and very popular lost in the final to Raffaëla Paton...  was also contestant
1999	Erna Otte-Hemmink	Emma Shapplin Emma Shapplin Emma Shapplin is a French operatic coloratura soprano.-Biography:...	Spente Le Stelle
2000	Bart Schwertman	Ian Gillan Ian Gillan Ian Gillan is an English rock music vocalist and songwriter, best known as the lead singer and lyricist for Deep Purple. During his career Gillan also fronted his own band, had a year-long stint as the vocalist for Black Sabbath, and sang the role of Jesus in the original recording of Andrew Lloyd...  uit de rock-opera Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar Jesus Christ Superstar is a rock opera by Andrew Lloyd Webber, with lyrics by Tim Rice. The musical started off as a rock opera concept recording before its first staging on Broadway in 1971...	Ghetsemane
2001	Mary Amora	Tina Turner Tina Turner Tina Turner is an American singer and actress whose career has spanned more than 50 years. She has won numerous awards and her achievements in the rock music genre have led many to call her the "Queen of Rock 'n' Roll".Turner started out her music career with husband Ike Turner as a member of the...	River Deep, Mountain High
2002	Valerie Dwarkasing	Alicia Keys Alicia Keys Alicia Augello Cook , better known by her stage name Alicia Keys, is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and occasional actress. She was raised by a single mother in the Hell's Kitchen area of Manhattan in New York City. At age seven, Keys began playing the piano...	Fallin'