Kathleen Aerts

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Kathleen Aerts
Kathleen Aerts performing with the Ketnetband (2009)
Kathleen Aerts performing with the Ketnetband (2009)
General information
Genre (s) pop
Website www.kathleen.nu
Kathleen Aerts with ex-K3 colleague Kristel Verbeke
Kathleen Aerts

Kathleen Aerts , actually Kathelijne Elisabeth Maria Aerts (born June 18, 1978 in Geel , Belgium ) is a Belgian singer - songwriter . She was a member of the Belgian pop group K3 .

Life

From 1998 to 2009 Kathleen Aerts was a member of the Flemish vocal trio K3, whose music is aimed more at children. The band's genre was pop and bubblegum pop. Originally, K3 was supposed to be a Dutch-language version of the Spice Girls. The first song Wat ik wil flopped. The following year K3 took part unsuccessfully in the preliminary round of the Eurovision Song Contest, whereby their single "Heyah Mama" was successfully placed in both the Belgian and Dutch charts some time later. Together with K3, Aerts has sold over 4 million singles, albums and DVDs. She has also released several films with K3 and played in two K3 musicals. Since Aerts left K3, Verbeke and Damen have been singing together with Josje Huisman , who won the part in the group through a specially held casting show.

In 2010 Aerts was a member of the Ketnetband.

After Aerts left K3 in 2009, she started her solo career with the song "Zumba Yade". Later the album "Kathleen in symfonie" followed, on which she sang Schlager. In 2010 Aerts announced to return to children's music. Her first children's song, without K3, was called Boerderij blue ( Eng . Farm blues), however, has not yet appeared on the market as a single, but only later on her third solo album Vlinders ( eng . Butterflies), which will be released in September 2013. She wrote some of the songs herself.

In 2009 she wrote an autobiographical book after leaving K3. Since June 2009 she has had a relationship with the police officer Sven van Hoof , whom she married on June 12, 2010. Their first son was born on January 26, 2011, the second on December 8, 2013. In 2015, she and her family moved to South Africa with their demented mother. In the same year a book was published in which she describes the course of her mother in Alsheim. 2016 saw the first single in Afrikaans Die Roos (Eng. Die Rose), a cover of Bette Midler's The Rose .

During her time at K3, she was able to amass a fortune of 2.12 million euros.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
BEF BE F NL NL
2009 In symphony - De mooiste
Nederlandstalige liedjes 		BE F21 (12 weeks)
BE F 		-
2012 Dag Sinterklaasje BE F14 (11 weeks)
BE F 		NL54 (2 weeks)
NL
Christmas album
2013 Vlinders BE F24 (13 weeks)
BE F 		-

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChart placementsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
BEF BE F NL NL
2009 Zumba Yade
 BE F11 (9 weeks)
BE F 		-

More singles

  • 2012: De Sinterklaas polonaise
  • 2012: Feest voor iedereen (with Diego Piet)
  • 2013: Hey Chickie! (First published: June 15, 2013)
  • 2013: Viegen (first published: September 16, 2013)
  • 2013: Juffrouw (First published: November 23, 2013)
  • 2016: De Roos (single in Afrikaans)
  • 2017: Africa (to the soundtrack of the film FC De Kampioenen: Forever )

With K3

Filmography / TV appearances

Filmography

  • 2000: Samson en Gert (guest role as herself)
  • 2002: Samson en Gert (guest role as herself)
  • 2002: K3 in Zwitserland
  • 2003: K3 in the Ardennes
  • 2004: K3 en het magical medallion
  • 2004: Fata Morgana
  • 2006: K3 en het IJsprinsesje
  • 2006: Piet Piraat en het vgende schip (Voices of the Carnivorous Plants)
  • 2007: K3 en de Kattenprins
  • 2007: K3 in de sneeuw
  • 2009: Hit the road (3 episodes as herself)
  • 2012: Sint & Diego en de Magische Bron van Myra

Television appearances

  • 1999: Eurosong 1999 (together with K3)
  • 2002–2005: Top of the Pops NL (together with K3)
  • 2003–2009: De wereld van K3 (as moderator)
  • 2004–2005: Kids Top 20 (together with K3)
  • 2006: Zo is er maar één (as a candidate)
  • 2008: 101 questions aan ... (as herself)
  • 2008: Peter live (together with K3)
  • 2009: K2 zoekt K3 (as guest)
  • 2009: Life4You (as guest)
  • 2009: Peter live (as herself)
  • 2009: Junior Eurosong 2009 (as juror, 4 episodes)
  • 2009–2010: Ranking the Stars (as themselves)
  • 2010: My Name Is ... (as juror)
  • 2010: Het perfecte plaatje (as herself)
  • 2010: RTL Boulevard (as herself)
  • 2012: Junior Eurosong 2012 (as coach)
  • 2013: De Juniors 2013 (as coach)
  • 2013: Op stap met Dirk Scheele

Books

  • 2009: Mijn leven als K1 (German: My life as K1), biographical book
  • 2015: Voor altijd mijn mama. Leven met jongdeementie (Eng. Forever my mom. Living with early dementia), biographical book about her mother's early dementia
  • 2017: Lilly en Max in de wereld van Oma (German: Lilly and Max in the world of Oma), children's book about dementia

Musicals

useful information

  • Aerts' image in the form of a wax figure is in Madame Tussauds in Amsterdam.
  • The song "Zumba Yade" was recorded by Aerts with Unicef. Part of the donation went to the society to help poor children in Africa. For this project Aerts traveled to Africa and attended a school, among other things.
  • On the album "Kathleen in symfonie" Kathleen sings a duet with Danny de Munk.
  • The album "Dag Sinterklaasje" was created because Aerts wanted to present the old Christmas carols in a modern form. This idea came to her when she was looking for Christmas carols that she could sing to her son. On this album she co-wrote the songs herself for the first time.

swell

  1. ↑ http://derijkstebelgen.be/nieuws/de-miljoenen-van-de-meisjes-van-k3/
  2. ↑ a b Chart sources: BEF NL

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personal data
SURNAME Aerts, Kathleen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aerts, Kathelijne Elisabeth Maria (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian singer-songwriter
DATE OF BIRTH June 18, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Geel , Belgium