Thor balances

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Chart positions
Explanation of the data
Singles
A daughter door het donker
  BE F 1 
gold
gold
10/21/2006 (27 weeks)
We gaan naar de zee
  BE F 20th 06/30/2007 (14 weeks)

Thor Salden (born November 28, 1997 in Schoten , Belgium ), publicly known as Thor! , is a former Belgian singer .

Career

Thor took part in the Belgian preliminary decision for the Junior Eurovision Song Contest 2006 and prevailed there with the song Een tocht door het donker ("A journey through the dark") in the semifinals and in the finals. At the Junior Eurovision Song Contest he finished 7th and thus achieved the third best result for Belgium in this competition. At the time of the preliminary decision, he was only eight years old, making him the youngest participant in the JESC. The following year , the minimum age for the competition was raised to ten years. The song Een tocht door het donker was released on October 13, 2006. The song reached number 1 on the official Flemish charts and earned Thor a gold record on January 30, 2007 . He is the youngest singer who has ever received this.

On November 24, 2007, the CD Sinterklaashits came out as a supplement to the Belgian newspaper Het Nieuwsblad . On it are Christmas carols sung by Thor. In April 2008 he took part in the band project Ketnetpop, launched by the youth broadcaster Ketnet . Thor retired from the music business at the end of the same year.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Thor singles! In: Ultratop.be. Ultratop & Hung Medien , accessed on October 11, 2015 (Flanders).
  2. ↑ Awards for music sales: BE
  3. ↑ boysoloist.com Thor on boysoloist.com
  4. ↑ destandaard.be Junior Eurosong-winnaar Thor stopt met zingen (Dutch) Accessed on July 13, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Balances, Thor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Thor! (Pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian singer
DATE OF BIRTH November 28, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Schoten , Belgium