Hind

Hind Laroussi Tahiri, stage-name Hind, (born Gouda, December 3rd, 1984) is a dutch singer, who rose to fame after reaching the finals of the first Dutch edition of Idols. Hind lives in Amsterdam. For the Bahraini singer with the same name, see Hend. Because of her broad tonal range, Hind is proficient in many different styles of music. She is just as good at r and b, pop and even fado. Hind continually experiments with different music styles and in different languages; for example she has sung in arabic and portuguese. One of her ambitions is to have a role in a large musical. In spite of this, she turned down an offer to play in the the Dutch version of the musical The Lion King. In 2004, Hind received an Edison award (Dutch Grammy) for her debut album Around The World, which also went gold. Hind launched her second album in 2005, titled Halfway Home. Hind participated at the Eurovision Song Contest 2008 in Belgrade. Her song Your heart belongs to me was written 5 years earlier. She performed in the semi finals but did not manage to reach the finals. In November 2009 Hind joined forces with website SellaBand to finance her third album. She became the fastest artist to date in reaching her goal by raising € 40,000 in 12 days.Target is to present the first single of the album to come in February 2010.