O'G3NE

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O'G3NE. (from left to right Amy, Shelley, Lisa)

O'G3NE is a Dutch girl group . The trio represented the Netherlands with the song Lights and Shadows at the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev and took eleventh place. The band name is made up of blood group 0 , which the three sisters inherited from their mother, and the genes that connect them.

Life and band history

Lisa (born June 21, 1994) and the twins Amy and Shelley Vol (born October 18, 1995) were born in Dordrecht and grew up in Fijnaart in the municipality of Moerdijk in North Brabant . In 2007 the sisters - at that time still simply called Lisa, Amy & Shelley - applied to the Junior Song Festival 2007, the Dutch preliminary decision for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2007 . They won both the semifinals and the final of the competition with the maximum number of points and thus received the right to start at the European final in Ahoy in Rotterdam . With the title Adem in, adem uit , the trio placed eleventh out of 17 participating countries . A year later, in June 2008, they released their first album together with 300% , which climbed to number 26 in the Dutch album charts . In 2011, the second album Sweet 16 was released , which also made it into the Dutch charts.

In 2014, the women first appeared as O'G3NE on the fifth season of the talent show The Voice of Holland . With the interpretation of the song Emotion by Destiny's Child (originally by Samantha Sang and the Bee Gees ) during the blind auditions, they were able to convince all coaches and decided on Marco Borsato's team . The trio made it to the final of the show and won it with 53.7 percent of the audience's votes. O'G3NE became the first band in the world to win a season of The Voice franchise. The final song Magic made it into the Nederlandse Top 40 and received a gold record for 15,000 downloads . Further single releases were less successful.

O'G3NE (2017)
O'G3NE during a press event as part of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 in Kiev

In 2016 the sisters took part in De Beste zangers van Nederland , the model for Sing mein Song . Their first album under a new band name was released at the end of September 2016. We Got This reached first place in the Dutch album charts after its release and was awarded a gold record in 2017. On October 29, 2016, the Dutch broadcaster AVROTROS announced that O'G3NE would represent the Netherlands in the 2017 Eurovision Song Contest. Lights and Shadows , written by her father Rick Vol and Rory de Kievit, was published on March 3, 2017 . The song pays homage to her mother, who by then had suffered from the rare cancer osteosarcoma for several years . On May 11, 2017, the band took part in the second semi-final of the Eurovision Song Contest 2017 and qualified for the final two days later at the International Exhibition Center in Kiev. O'G3NE achieved eleventh place among 26 participating countries with 150 points.

Her mother passed away on July 12, 2017. They then withdrew from the public for the time being. On October 12, 2017 they released their new song But I Do during the Gouden Televizier-Ring Gala 2017.

In the late summer of 2017, the band started the Three Times A Lady tour through the Netherlands.

Discography

Albums

year title Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NL NL
2008 300% NL26 (12 weeks)
NL
as Lisa, Amy & Shelley
2011 Sweet 16 NL45 (6 weeks)
NL
as Lisa, Amy & Shelley
2016 We got this NL1
gold
gold

(48 weeks)NL

Singles

year Title
album 		Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements
(Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) 		Remarks
NL NL
2015 Magic
 NL20th
gold
gold

(5 weeks)NL
Final song from The Voice of Holland
NL Top 100: # 3
2017 Lights and Shadows
 NL33
gold
gold

(3 weeks)NL
NL Top 100: # 14

More singles

as Lisa, Amy & Shelley

  • 2007: Adem in, adem uit (NL Top 100: # 55)
  • 2008: Zet 'm op (NL Top 100: # 60)
  • 2008: The Power of Christmas (NL Top 100: # 98)

as O'G3NE

  • 2014: Emotion (NL Top 100: # 37; Original by The Bee Gees / Destiny's Child from The Voice of Holland )
  • 2014: Change Will Come (NL Top 100: # 62; Original by Elliott Murphy from The Voice of Holland )
  • 2014: Hold on (NL Top 100: # 86; Original by Wilson Phillips from The Voice of Holland )
  • 2015: Cold (NL Top 100: # 70)
  • 2015: Wings to Fly (NL Top 100: # 100)
  • 2015: The Power of Christmas
  • 2016: Take the Money and Run
  • 2016: Clown (NL:goldgold Gold)
  • 2016: Loved You First
  • 2017: But I Do

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Girl group O'G3NE to represent the Netherlands in Kyiv
  2. ^ Gold / platinum database of the Netherlands
  3. ↑ O'G3NE steelt de show in Beste zangers , TV GiDS, May 28, 2016
  4. ^ Official O'G3NE homepage: Golden Album Award at RTL Late Night. O'G3NE, July 6, 2017, accessed November 17, 2017 .
  5. ↑ OG3NE met zeer persoonlijke Lights And Shadows naar Eurovisie song festival . In: OG3NE met zeer persoonlijke Lights And Shadows naar Eurovisie Songfestival . ( avrotros.nl [accessed November 17, 2017]).
  6. ↑ Moeder van OG3NE-zusjes stuff . In: Songfestival.be . July 12, 2017 ( songfestival.be [accessed November 21, 2017]).
  7. ↑ But They Do! OG3NE are back | Eurovision Song Contest Kiev 2017. Retrieved on November 21, 2017 (German).
  8. ↑ OG3NE - Succestournee Three Times a Lady | Impact entertainment. Retrieved November 17, 2017 (American English).
  9. ↑ a b Chart sources: Top 40 (singles) / Top 100 (albums / singles)