Linda Mertens

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Linda Mertens during a Milk Inc. appearance at the 2007 Gentse Feesten
Linda Mertens during an appearance on Milk Inc. 2006

Linda Mertens (born July 20, 1978 in Wilrijk , Belgium ) is a Belgian singer . She is best known as the front woman of the Belgian dance group Milk Inc.

Life

Linda Mertens is the daughter of a Tunisian and a Belgian. When she was three years old, her parents divorced - she never got to know her father again. Her older brother Johan died in a car accident. After studying art and training as a hairdresser for two years , she began studying psychology , which she dropped out.

Mertens took her first steps as a singer in a music group called "Secret Fantasy". However, her breakthrough came with the dance formation Milk Inc. In mid-2000, Mertens visited the club “Illusion” (a well-known discotheque in Lier ) and asked the resident DJ Regi Penxten if he wasn't a singer for one of his projects would need. Little did Mertens know that Regi was looking for a new singer for Milk Inc. After some tests, she was selected as the new singer. Mertens has been the singer and front woman of Milk Inc. since September 15, 2000 - the first song with her was Land Of The Living .

As a singer, Mertens not only works with Milk Inc. In 2001, the eternal cover Oh Baby I was released in collaboration with Esther Sels, Kate Ryan , Maaike Moens (The Quest) and Pascale Feront (Absolom) . On Sylver's 2006 album “Crossroads” she sings the song Keep Your Hands together with Silvy de Bie . Together with Jessy de Smet , she released the song Getting Out in late 2007 .

At Milk Inc.'s Supersized 2 concerts at the end of September 2007, Linda Mertens showed that she can not only sing, but also play drums . In 2008 she took part in the songwriting for the first time : the lyrics of the ballad Perfect Lie on the album "Forever" by Milk Inc. came mostly from her.

Not least because of her fame as the singer of Milk Inc., she posed several times for the Belgian men's magazine P-Magazine .

In April 2004 Mertens was involved in a serious traffic accident: She collided head-on with another car; the driver of the other car died a little later from his injuries. In the subsequent legal proceedings, she was awarded responsibility for the accident. She also had to pay € 30,000 in damages.

At the end of May 2014 it became known that Mertens was expecting her first child from her boyfriend, who was six years her junior, at the end of November 2014. Their daughter was born on November 15, 2014. In May 2015, Mertens confirmed the end of the two-year relationship with the father of their child. On April 7, 2017, their daughter Lio passed away after being diagnosed with cancer at the end of 2015.

Discography

The singles and albums created with Milk Inc. are not listed.

Singles

year title Chart position annotation
BE ( Vl )
2001 Oh baby i 47 with Esther Sels, Kate Ryan , Maaike Moens (The Quest) and Pascale Feront (Absolom). First published: 2001. Cover version - originally by the British R&B girl band Eternal (1994)
2007 Getting out 45 with Jessy de Smet . First published: December 21, 2007

Web links

Commons : Linda Mertens  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gallery Linda Mertens (25.05.10) . ( Memento of the original from September 9, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P magazines. Gallery Linda Mertens & Sylvie De Bie (01/09/09) . ( Memento of the original from July 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. P magazines; Retrieved August 4, 2010 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.p-magazine.be @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.p-magazine.be
  2. ↑ Dodelijk ongeval brengt zangeres voor right . Nieuwsblad.be, May 12, 2006; Retrieved June 14, 2008
  3. ↑ Zangeres Milk Inc. veroordeeld voor dodelijk ongeval . Nieuwsblad.be, June 8, 2006; Retrieved June 14, 2008
  4. ↑ Linda van Milk Inc. is compulsive . Nieuwsblad.be, May 27, 2014; accessed May 27, 2014
  5. ↑ Zangeres Milk Inc. became a mom . Nieuwsblad.be, November 15, 2014; accessed November 15, 2014
  6. ↑ Linda Mertens: Einde aan relatie gemaakt . Nieuwsblad.be, May 13, 2015; accessed November 15, 2014
  7. ↑ Wickertje (2.5) van Zangeres Milk Inc. overleden . Nieuwsblad.be, April 10, 2017; accessed April 17, 2017
  8. ↑ ultratop.be
personal data
SURNAME Mertens, Linda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian singer
DATE OF BIRTH July 20, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Wilrijk , Belgium