Michelle Courtens (born August 3, 1981), performing as Michelle, is a Dutch singer, who is known from her performance in the Eurovision Song Contest 2001.
She was born in Venray, The Netherlands.
On March 2, 2001 Michelle competed in the final of the Dutch National Song Contest, with the alternative pop song "Out On My Own". She won the final with a score of 84, 30 points more than the contestant finishing second. Both the audience and the professional jury awarded her the most points, respectively 50 and 34.
On the Eurovision Song Contest in Copenhagen, Denmark however, she scored low. Despite her historic performance (sitting and bare footed), she only received sixteen points, resulting in an 18th place.
In March of that year, Out On My Own reached the 9th place in the Dutch Top 40; unique for a Eurovision song. In 2002 she tried to revive her career with the release of the single "Coming Up Roses", but the single was hardly noticed and flopped. Currently, she is working as a singing teacher.
On September 16, 2006 Michelle married her girlfriend Carlijn. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
There are (at least) 5 female singers and one band using the stage name 'Michelle' -
(1) Michelle (*February 15, 1972 in Villingen-Schwenningen) is the stage name of German singer Tanja Shitawey (née Hewer) who represented Germany in the ESC 2001 with "Wer Liebe lebt" ("To Live for Love").
(2) Michelle McManus from the UK was the UK Pop Idol winner in 2003 and is best known for "All This Time", just credited 'Michelle' on her releases.
(3) Dutch singer Michelle Courtens participated at the ESC 2001, she did perform "Out on my own" to place 18.
(4) Michelle Narine from Trinidad released the track "Standing Here All Alone" in 1996 in the UK.
(5) Norwegian singer Michelle Purvis did perform "Baby don't stop the music" in the Norwegian selection to ESC 2008.
(6) A four piece band from Spain that formed in 2000. They released their first full length album in 2007, titled Rock 'n' Roll Babilonia Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.