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Karen Damen (born October 28, 1974 in Wilrijk , Belgium , actually: Karen Franciska Maria Louisa Damen ) is a Flemish singer , actress and presenter who works in the Belgian band K3 . She embodied the sports teacher Esther Verlinden in " Het Huis Anubis ".
Private life
Karen Damen is in a relationship with Antony Van der Wee , the drummer of the band The Ditch . The couple have had a son named Sky since 2010. Before starting her music career, she studied Modern Languages.
Career
1998–2007: K3's first successes and breakthrough
Damen is the redhead of K3, currently the most successful band in the BeNe countries. She is the oldest member of the band, to which she, like Kristel Verbeke , has been a member since 1998. The band's breakthrough came with the single Heyah Mama in 2000. There is a wax figure of her at Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam , Netherlands . She has already made a few films with K3 and also made a few DVDs.
2007 - today: Solo successes and exit from K3
She also celebrated solo successes. In 2007 she recorded the song "Hard" with Belgian DJ Regi Penxten , which appeared on one of Regi's albums. In the original version of Das Haus Anubis , she played the sports teacher in the first season. Her bandmate Kathleen Aerts left the band in 2009 and started a solo career. The casting show "K2 zoekt K3" gave women a new band colleague, Josje Huisman . The first album with Huisman MaMaSé became the best-selling album of 2010 in Belgium. She has been on the jury of Belgium's Got Talent since 2012 . In 2014 she released a solo single. The single "Kzing" was sung by women in Antwerp dialect and reached number 84 on the Flemish charts. On March 18, 2015, together with Verbeke and Huisman, she announced that they were leaving the group. In the same year, a casting show is to take place in which the successors of the three are sought.
Musicals
- 2003: Doornroosje (as Karmella, a good fairy)
- 2004: De 3 Biggetjes (as Knarri, one of the three little pigs)
- 2005–2006: Taxi Taxi
- 2007: De 3 Biggetjes (as Knarri, one of the three little pigs)
Filmography
- 1999: Samson & Gert (as guest, with K3 )
- 2002: Samson & Gert (as guest, with K3 )
- 2003–2015: De Wereld van K3 (as moderator )
- 2004: K3 en het Magische Medaillon (as herself, leading role )
- 2006: K3 en het IJsprinsesje (as herself, leading role )
- 2006–2007: Het Huis Anubis (guest role as the sports teacher Esther Verlinden)
- 2006: Piet Piraat en het Vgende Schip (as the red carnivorous plant)
- 2007: K3 en de Kattenprins (as herself, leading role)
- 2009: K2 zoekt K3 (as herself)
- 2010: Hello K3! : TV movie ( starring as herself)
- 2010: K3 weer K3 ( leading role as herself)
- 2010: K3 en het wensspeel ( leading role as herself)
- 2010–2013: Hello K3! ( Main role as herself)
- since 2012: Belgium's Got Talent (as juror)
- 2012: K3 Bengeltjes ( leading role as herself)
- 2012: K3 Modemeiden ( leading role as herself)
- 2012: K3 en het droombed ( lead role as herself)
- 2014–2015: K3 kan het! ( Moderator )
- 2014: K3 Dierenhotel ( leading role as herself)
- 2014: K3 in Nederland ( leading role as herself)
- 2015: K3 zoekt K3 (as herself)
Discography
see: K3 (volume) / discography
swell
- Chart stats: K3. ultratop.be (site in Dutch)
- Chart stats: K3. dutchcharts.nl (site in Dutch)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KnaRcC5OO2w (site in Dutch)
- http://www.nieuws.be/nieuws/Karen_Damen_(K3)_zwanger_van_Anthony_Van_der_Wee_b6510ab5.aspx (page in Dutch)
- http://www.nieuwsblad.be/article/detail.aspx?articleid=DMF03102009_073 (page in Dutch)
- http://subsites.studio100.be/k3/k3_nieuws/Kathleen_verlaat_K3.htm (page in Dutch)
- http://www.bol.com/nl/p/dvd/huis-anubis-het-seizoen-1/1002004005535231/index.html (page in Dutch)
- Karen women in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Ladies, Karen |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Ladies, Karen Franciska Maria Louisa |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Flemish singer, actress and presenter |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 28, 1974 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Wilrijk , Belgium |