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In 2020, the duo took part in the Flemish TV show Liefde voor muziek, where they received praise for their reinterpretation of the song "Liefdeskapitein" by K3. [4] In the same year they released their debut album Don't Look Back , [ 5 ] which reached number 2 in the Flemish chart, selling 10,000 copies and obtaining a gold record. [ 6 ]
Having become monarchs with a claim to represent the entire nation and stand above factions, the House of Orange decided to break with the song which served them as heads of a faction, and the "Wilhelmus" was replaced by Hendrik Tollens' song "Wien Neêrlands Bloed", which was the official Dutch anthem from 1815 until 1932. However, the ...
Around 1900, the anthem was in general use among Flemish militants. On 6 July 1973, a decree by the then Cultural Council for the Dutch Cultural Community (the precursor of the present Flemish Parliament) proclaimed the first two stanzas to be the official national anthem of Flanders. The text and musical notation were officially published on ...
The discography of K3, a Flemish-Dutch pop group, consists of 21 studio albums, two live albums, ten compilation albums, four musical soundtrack albums and 42 singles. Their debut album Parels was released in 1999 and peaked at 2 in the Flemish album chart. Their next singles and albums all became big hits in the Netherlands and Belgium.
Several generations of Renaissance composers from the region loosely known as the Low Countries (Imperial and French fiefs ruled in personal union by the House of Valois-Burgundy in the period from 1384 to 1482)—i.e. present-day Northern France, Belgium and the Southern Netherlands—are grouped under "Franco-Flemish School", though a teacher-student-relationship between them rarely existed.
Additionally, the song was a top 40 hit in both Spain (31) and Switzerland (33), as well as on the Eurochart Hot 100, reaching number 37 in April same year. And it did also chart in Belgium, where it peaked at number 47 in on the Flemish Ultratop 50. Outside Europe, "Time to Make You Mine" charted in Australia, reaching number 114.
He wants her to love him again in the "flat country of Flanders" (a reference to another song by him, "Le Plat Pays"). It is the only song where he sings both in his native French language and in Dutch, the other major language of his bilingual home country Belgium. Brel recorded a version of the song entirely in Dutch as well, with lyrics by ...
Lassus leading a chamber ensemble (contemporary painting by Hans Mielich) Many of the major 15th- and 16th-century composers of the Franco-Flemish School—a current of vocal polyphony that played a central role in European art music of the time—were born and bred in the portion of the Low Countries that is situated in present-day Belgium, often in Hainaut. [1]