Glennis Grace

Glennis Grace (2010)

Glennis Grace (born June 19, 1978 in Amsterdam ; real name Glenda Hulita Elisabeth Batta ) is a Dutch singer who took part in the Eurovision Song Contest in 2005 . She should also have appeared at the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 as an interval act, which was canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic .

Career

Grace first became known to a wider public in 1994 when she won the Soundmixshow talent competition at the age of 16 with a cover version of Whitney Houston . Despite this success, she did not make her breakthrough as a singer at the time. However, in 2005 she made a comeback when she titled My Impossible Dream , the Nationaal Songfestival won the Netherlands and thus for the Euro Vision Song Contest 2005 in Kiev qualified. Here she made it to the semifinals. The album Glennis , released in 2008, contains only tracks in Dutch, on which Grace mostly also worked as a songwriter. With Als Je Slaapt she was able to get into the single TOP 10 for the first time.

After a TV appearance in 2011, their cover version of the title Afscheid was performed by the band Volumia! a number 1 hit and both the live album One Night Only and the 2012 studio album This Is My Voice reached number 2 on the Dutch album charts.

In 2018, Grace took part in the 13th season of the American talent show America's Got Talent . In the "Auditions" she appeared with the song Run To You by Whitney Houston. With her appearance she reached the next round.

Discography

Albums

year	title	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes)		Remarks
		NL	BE F
2005	My Impossible Dream	NL28 (11 weeks) NL	-
2008	Glennis	NL32 (10 weeks) NL	-
2011	One night only	NL2 × 2 Double platinum (48 weeks)NL	-	Sales: + 100,000
2012	This is my voice	NL2 (22 weeks) NL	-
2013	One Christmas Night Only	NL9 (11 weeks) NL	-
2014	Cover story	NL38 (1 week) NL	BE F3 (20 weeks) BE F
2015	Bitterzoet - Live & Studio Sessies	NL5 (8 weeks) NL	BE F187 (1 week) BE F
2018	Whitney - A Tribute by Glennis Grace	NL13 (2 weeks) NL	BE F131 (2 weeks) BE F

More albums

• 1996: Real Emotions
• 2003: Secrets of My Soul
• 2012: Live in the HMH

Singles

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		NL
1994	I'm gonna be strong real emotions	NL13 (9 weeks) NL
2005	My Impossible Dream My Impossible Dream	NL26 (3 weeks) NL
2011	Afscheid cover story	NL2 platinum (16 weeks)NL	Sales: + 20,000
	Will never even 1 night This Is My Voice	NL5 gold (10 weeks)NL	with Edwin Evers; Sales: + 10,000

More singles

• 1995: Somewhere in Time
• 2002: Always on My Mind
• 2002: Goodbye (A Love Triangle) (with René Froger & Sylvia Samson)
• 2003: Absolutely Not
• 2005: Shake up the party
• 2007: Hoe
• 2008: As ever slaapt
• 2008: Dansen met het leven
• 2010: As je mij weer aankijkt
• 2011: Always (with Het Metropole Orkest)
• 2012: Ik ben niet van jou
• 2013: Ondanks everything
• 2013: Als het ons niets zou doen (feat. John Ewbank)

Guest Posts

year	Title album	Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes)	Remarks
		NL
2011	Wereldwijd orkest	NL12 (4 weeks) NL	Het Metropole Orkest olv Vince Mendoza feat. Various artists

Further guest contributions

• 2018: Glad ijs ( Broederliefde feat. Glennis Grace)

Web links

Commons : Glennis Grace  - Collection of Images

• Official website (Dutch)
• Netherlands: Glennis Grace at eurovision.de
• Glennis Grace at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dutch soul singer Glennis Grace takes America's Got Talent by storm dutchnews.nl, on June 27, 2018, accessed on July 8, 2018
2. ↑ Hannah Yasharoff: Mom, 39, channels Whitney Houston in a moving 'America's Got Talent' performance. USA Today, June 27, 2018, accessed December 4, 2018 . 
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Chart sources: NL Singles NL Albums BE
4. ↑ ^{a b c} Awards: NL