Jeangu Macrooy

Jeangu Macrooy (2017)

Jeangu Macrooy ([ ʒɑ̃nˈgy maˈkroːi ]; born November 6, 1993 in Paramaribo ) is a Surinamese singer and songwriter .

Career

Jeangu Macrooy was born in Paramaribo. With his brother Xillan Macrooy, he founded the duo Between Towers in 2011. After two years at the Paramaribo Conservatory , he decided in 2014 to continue his studies as a songwriter at the ArtEZ Conservatory in Enschede , the Netherlands . In the Netherlands he began working with the music producer Perquisite, whom Macrooy met during an audition at the ArtEZ Conservatory. He was officially signed to Perquisites label Unexpected Records in December 2015.

Publications

Macrooy's debut EP Brave Enough was released on April 7, 2016. His first single Gold was well received: he played the song on the talk show De Wereld Draait Door on April 19, 2016, and it was used in a commercial for the Game of Thrones series. In April 2016, Macrooy was named Serious Talent by radio station 3FM .

Macrooy's debut album High On You , for which he collaborated with Perquisite as on his EP, was released on Unexpected Records on April 14, 2017. The album entered the Dutch album charts. The single High On You from the album reached first place in the Surinamese Top 40.

On February 7th, 2019 Macrooy released his second album Horizon at Paradiso .

Appearances

Macrooy at the Noorderslag Festival 2019

Macrooy played in 2016 as support for Selah Sue , Blaudzun , Remy van Kesteren and Bernhoft. He also took part in the Popronde, a Dutch pop music festival in various cities. In 2017 he toured the Netherlands on his first club tour, in the summer of the same year Macrooy played with his band at various festivals, including the Noorderslag Festival , the North Sea Jazz Festival , the Festival Mundial in Tilburg and the Lowlands Festival . He also performed in his homeland, Suriname.

Jeangu Macrooy also performs outside the Netherlands. He was the opening act for the German concerts of Curtis Harding and Ayọ , as well as Trombone Shorty (in Germany, Belgium and France). In the summer of 2019 he made his first own headlining tour through Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin, among others, and performed at the internationally renowned Reeperbahn Festival . Macrooy's Horizon theater tour of the Netherlands was supposed to start in spring 2020, but was canceled due to the corona pandemic .

On the talk show De Wereld Draait Door (DWDD)

After his first appearance on DWDD, Macrooy was a regular guest on the show. He paid tribute to Stevie Wonder , George Michael and The Blue Diamonds and sang the song The Times They Are A-Changin by Bob Dylan in a DWDD retrospective . In the 2018/2019 season, Macrooy, together with Ruben Hein, paid tribute to Paul Simon and Elton John , who both announced their farewell tour at the beginning of the year.

The Passion and film music

Macrooy played the role of the 2018 Judas in Pop - Passion Play The Passion , which is broadcast annually on Dutch television. His single Dance With Me is the theme song from Michiel van Erps' feature film Nobody in de stad .

Eurovision Song Contest

In 2020, the Dutch public broadcaster AVROTROS announced that Macrooy would represent the host country at the Eurovision Song Contest (ESC) 2020 in May with the title Grow . Since the Netherlands had won the ESC 2019 , he was automatically qualified for the final. On March 18, 2020, the competition had to be canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic , but on the same day AVROTROS announced that Macrooy would represent the Netherlands at the ESC 2021 .

Discography

Studio albums

title	Details	Chart position
		NL
High on you	Release: April 14, 2017 Label: Unexpected Records Format: digital download, CD	69
Horizon	Release: February 8, 2019 Label: Unexpected Records Format: digital download, CD	-
"-" indicates a record that has not been published in the area.

Live albums

title	Details
Live!	Release: November 6, 2019 Label: Unexpected Records Formats: digital download, CD

Extended plays

title	Details
Brave Enough	Release: April 7, 2016 Label: Unexpected Records Formats: Digital download

Singles

title	year	Chart placement		Album / EP
		SUR	NLD
gold	2016	-	-	Brave Enough
To love is to hurt		-	-
Brave Enough		-	-
Step into the water	2017	-	-	High on you
Crazy Kids (featuring Xillan)		-	-
High on you		1	-
Tell Me Father		-	-
How Much I Love You	2018	-	-	Horizon
Dance with Me		-	-
Shake Up This Place	2019	-	-
Second hand lover		-	-
Grow	2020	-	29 (3 weeks)	-
"-" indicates a record that has not been published in the area.

Web links

Commons : Jeangu Macrooy  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jeangu Macrooy at Discogs (English)
• official website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy - Unexpected Records . In: unexpected-records.com . Retrieved January 10, 2020.
2. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy: Facebook status as of December 11, 2015. Accessed April 25, 2020 (English). 
3. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy - Gold (minuut) - De Wereld Draait Door - BNNVARA. April 19, 2016, accessed April 25, 2020 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy in HBO commercial on Ziggo. January 18, 2017, accessed April 25, 2020 (American English). 
5. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy. In: NPO 3FM . April 8, 2016, accessed April 25, 2020 (Dutch). 
6. ↑ ^{a b} Top 40 Suriname ( en ) October 12, 2017. Accessed January 10, 2020.
7. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy. Paradiso, accessed April 25, 2020 . 
8. ↑ Popronde 2016 | Popronde. Retrieved April 25, 2020 (Dutch). 
9. ↑ De mooiste optredens van Jeangu Macrooy in DWDD. - De Wereld Draait Door - BNNVARA. October 25, 2017, accessed April 25, 2020 (Dutch). 
10. ↑ The Passion 2018 - Jeangu Macrooy. Accessed April 25, 2020 (English). 
11. ^ Neil Farren: The Netherlands: Jeangu Macrooy to Eurovision 2020 ( en-GB ) In: Eurovoix . January 10, 2020. Accessed January 10, 2020.
12. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy vertegenwoordigt Nederland op het Eurovisie Songfestival 2020 | Eurovisie Song Festival. Retrieved April 25, 2020 (Dutch). 
13. ↑ Discography Jeangu Macrooy . Retrieved January 10, 2020.
14. ↑ Jeangu Macrooy in the Nederlandse Top 40