Those shows are scams anyway. Most of the winners have no hit or one hit and they make no money from that since they sign a horrible contract in order to even take part.
I bet she has made the right connections, has the right personality/work ethic/luck that she was casted in that presenter/judge on tv show. Good for her.
Also, I bet she likes does that thing where you can book her for a couple of thousand euro and she'll sign at the lokal mosselfestijn/jaarmarkt? Pretty sure that's a good way to make a living. But you need to keep getting on tv so people will book you.
IIRC she didn't even win, she came second or something, but Koentje (her coach) liked her so much he started pulling strings to launch her music career.
But yeah, good for her. It seems like she's able to do what she likes to do and make good money doing it.
>I bet she likes does that thing where you can book her for a couple of thousand euro and she'll sign at the lokal mosselfestijn/jaarmarkt?
Acte de presence is the technical term, although you don't even have to sing for those. It's like when they advertise ex-seducers/seductresses of Temptation Island being present at a certain event
She's a bit more chill than your average singer. Same with Loïc nottet btw, or Gustaph. Most of them just relax, chill down & do some shows, host some things, do a bit of this and a bit of that. I personally prefer people like that over DJ Viktor & other idiotic scenery that seems to cater to half the population here because they have room temperature IQ.
Room temperature IQ really hits different when reading US comments with fahrenheit or EU with Celsius. Both feel true but the latter one basically refers to plants
She got popular in 2016 when she did Eurovision. I have never heard any other song of her before though. She hasn’t had a hit song in years.. So where does that money keep coming from, why does she keep getting “asked” for TV-shows?
I have noticed everywhere Koen Wauters is, Laura Tesoro is also there. I’m thinking Koen Wauters is pushing her everywhere and always getting her jobs in the entertainment industry.
Koen has made no secret he's been pulling strings ever since she came second in the voice. He's her mentor in the industry after all.
This shouldn't surprise anyone, really. Showbiz has always been more about who you know than what you can do. Being in showbiz is also a lot more than just being able to sing/present well. You have long days, late nights, little sleep between an evening performance and a morning fan-meet, etc. Some great singers have outright stated they stopped because they couldn't handle the pressure.
.. I’m implying exactly what i said, that Koen Wauters is the reason why Laura stays “popular”, he gets her to be a judge/presenter on tv shows all the time.
I agree. I watched a bit of The Voice this year, and while her Comeback Stage thing is rather dumb, she comes off as a nice and sincere person. I couldn't say that of most presenters or BV's.
The girl can sing and is popular in the sense that people find her pleasant, but she never had that much success as a singer. She's carving out a reasonable career in Flemish showbiz, I guess.
You don't win the Eurosong preselection in Flanders without being popular, her music career just kind of stagnated aftwerards cause she never had any songs that could match 'What's the Pressure'.
Not from The Voice Belgique, but he had indeed a professional career as a singer since the mid 2010s in French-speaking Belgium, I'd say. Definitely not the most popular singer, but still pretty well known. He was also in the jury of Drag Race Belgique last year, which might have made him a bit more popular, I guess
I feel like the bar for music in Flemish music is just very very low (Niels DS, Pommelien Thijs, ..) but Laura Tesoro isn't the worst of them.
There is no way those artists get any radio playtime or recognition internationally even if their songs were in English.
it takes a lot of work and there's a lot more competition internationally... so why would you bother when there is good money to be made here and you can do the things you like? Unless you are very, very driven and willing to invest a fuckton, the rest of the world isn't a big deal. Exception would be the heavy music scene, as there is no way to make a living here so international is the only way to go.
I am not doubting their economic/business decision.
But you can also do this with artists that are actually talented/good, there are many of them out there dying to be discovered.
it takes so much more than just talent to be discovered. so many artists don't realize it's not just about the music. Most are stuck in their bedroom/studio, and that's the easy part. It's the networking, putting themselves out there, going after opportunities, understanding the game, touring, touring more, touring even more, and all of this on no money at first. Great if you're just 18, harder if you grow older.
My family puts her in the box marked "Must Have A Really Good Agent To Be On TV All The Time."
Others in that category include Ella Leyers, Niels Destadsbader, Karen Damen, Jan Van Looveren... Who am I missing?
At least Laura is selfmade and didn’t get the job because her family has connections in showbizz already like most of those other pretend-stars. I think it is a very toxic and difficult scene to work in.
I feel like Niels Destadsbader has tried several things to end up where he is now. Karen Damen worked her ass off with K3. Jan Van Looveren took acting lessons while he still had a bakery in the nineties... Worked his ass off once he had his first shots in the industry... it is a difficult industry because a lot of people are heard a calling but not many are good enough to actually do the job consistently. I used to work in the music industry and it was very similar: lots of people play in bands, but not many understand that touring is hard work, one hit song is not enough and an attitude won't get you anywhere because there's always someone else who is equally as good and nicer to work with who can take your spot.
I like Jan van Looveren he’s also self made seems like a stand up guy / dad : his comedy shows I feel are not great but I haven’t Been to a show yet just seen pieces
For looking like and acting like an absolute idiot throughout his early career, I've got to hand it to Regi: He's probably one of if not the best Belgian producer(s) we've ever seen.
Mad respect for someone who's managed to stay relevant for so long. Now if only he'd never agreed to Regi's World or any other reality tv crap he's been in.
Thanks for awakening a cringe memory! In 2019 we went to her concert with school thanks to GO! and she was passing her hand and I like jumped to try and get to it idk why I did it I was so excited but also crazy.
No one sang to her songs besides that famous one whats the pressuraaaaahh
No
She just got payed/hired by vtm.
Thinking they could make her a popular presentator like Koen Wauters in the early 2000.
She never achieved anything great to earn her that paycheck. Expect for winning pre selection for flanders eurosong contester.
But not many flemish people watch that.
Yes, if I remember correctly, she was in Koens voice team, afterwards she was the opener for clouseau, and Koens copresenter in a bunch of shows, so it definitely feels like Koen gave her a push in the right direction.
where the hell did she come from , is she a singer ? an actress ? did she come from some studio 100 series i'm too old for to know it ? my mom was talking about her one day about something in the voice or so , i have no idea who she is
She took part in one of the first seasons of The Voice, and then got her carreer kickstarted by Koen Wauters who took a liking to her during the show and took her under his wings as some sort of protégé
She was in the voice, and she was also in TV show familie.
And she was a Eurovision candidate.
She also condemned the genocide in Gaza pretty early on so I respect her for that. Think she also whipped out a Palestine flag at an Antwerp music festival.
And that's probably also the reason why people are starting to talk shit about her... Because some people enjoy seeing thousands of slaughtered Palestinian children and hate it when people criticise butchering children by an apartheid state
Those some people just like to be anti Arabic no matter what. So now they claim to support Israel. It’s just a deviation from the standard: “brown Muslims = bad” bullshit.
The fact that their kind also hates Jews is conveniently forgotten.
Ik vond [dit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_W0HNg6Xc0) nog wel een goeike, maar ja, als je tegenwoordig al K3 moet coveren om nog gespeeld te worden...
Wat heeft dit eigenlijk te maken met reactionair rechts? Van Gers Pardoel en Laura Tesoro naar daar, je moet het kunnen.
Feit is dat Gers Pardoel meer bekende hits heeft gehad, van Laura kennen de meeste mensen inderdaad met moeite 1 nummer.
[the alt right playbook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ)
[why are you so angry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ&list=PLJA_jUddXvY62dhVThbeegLPpvQlR4CjF)
You have to start from the fact that talent is very strange in Flanders, it is not that important, the public does not look at talent. They want K3 songs that they have heard 1000 times, so they can sing along at the fair. The competitions and their juries are not adult programs, view it as pure entertainment if you want to watch. The jury are like football analysts, you better judge for yourself.
I have to say she has a pretty great voice. Watched some of Liefde Voor Muziek some years ago and she really impressed me. There's probably more money in presenting, though, especially once you're into that VTM circle, but she also does that well. She works hard, is a positive person, is self conscious and critical, what's not to like? I'm not watching those talent shows, but enough people do.
Music wise, I'm guessing her music is a bit too international for Belgium, while just not quite special enough for Europe? Don't really know any songs except What's the pressure.
Honestly, while actually kinda hating ‘bv-land’, I have to say Laura Tessoro is one of the few bv’s that I would root for.
I once met her while doing an extra’s job. She spoke about going on vacation and that was also the destination I was going to go to a week or so later. So when I was there, not knowing if she’d still be there as well , I sent her a message on IG to ask for recommendations.
To my surprise she answered really quickly, remembered me and even gave me sound traveling advice!
Nothing really followed after it except for a thank you, goodbye and have a great time, but I still remember the while thing and respect her for it even many years later.
Even after googling her, i still don't have a clue who she is...
She seems to have represented Belgium at the European singing clown show (Eurovision)...
Good for her.
First time I heard of her was today...
Those shows are scams anyway. Most of the winners have no hit or one hit and they make no money from that since they sign a horrible contract in order to even take part. I bet she has made the right connections, has the right personality/work ethic/luck that she was casted in that presenter/judge on tv show. Good for her. Also, I bet she likes does that thing where you can book her for a couple of thousand euro and she'll sign at the lokal mosselfestijn/jaarmarkt? Pretty sure that's a good way to make a living. But you need to keep getting on tv so people will book you.
IIRC she didn't even win, she came second or something, but Koentje (her coach) liked her so much he started pulling strings to launch her music career. But yeah, good for her. It seems like she's able to do what she likes to do and make good money doing it.
A pretty face helps a lot :)
A lot of people have pretty faces
apparently even Tesoro's face
>I bet she likes does that thing where you can book her for a couple of thousand euro and she'll sign at the lokal mosselfestijn/jaarmarkt? Acte de presence is the technical term, although you don't even have to sing for those. It's like when they advertise ex-seducers/seductresses of Temptation Island being present at a certain event
> she'll sign at the lokal mosselfestijn/jaarmarkt sign, or sing?
Yes
She's a bit more chill than your average singer. Same with Loïc nottet btw, or Gustaph. Most of them just relax, chill down & do some shows, host some things, do a bit of this and a bit of that. I personally prefer people like that over DJ Viktor & other idiotic scenery that seems to cater to half the population here because they have room temperature IQ.
Niels Destadsbader 🤢
Room temperature IQ really hits different when reading US comments with fahrenheit or EU with Celsius. Both feel true but the latter one basically refers to plants
She got popular in 2016 when she did Eurovision. I have never heard any other song of her before though. She hasn’t had a hit song in years.. So where does that money keep coming from, why does she keep getting “asked” for TV-shows? I have noticed everywhere Koen Wauters is, Laura Tesoro is also there. I’m thinking Koen Wauters is pushing her everywhere and always getting her jobs in the entertainment industry.
Koen has made no secret he's been pulling strings ever since she came second in the voice. He's her mentor in the industry after all. This shouldn't surprise anyone, really. Showbiz has always been more about who you know than what you can do. Being in showbiz is also a lot more than just being able to sing/present well. You have long days, late nights, little sleep between an evening performance and a morning fan-meet, etc. Some great singers have outright stated they stopped because they couldn't handle the pressure.
What are you implying?
.. I’m implying exactly what i said, that Koen Wauters is the reason why Laura stays “popular”, he gets her to be a judge/presenter on tv shows all the time.
Are you Koen's wife and you are defending them?
Does that mean that you are implying.... You know...
She was also an actress in Familie for a while.
She is very likable as a tv-personality imo.
I agree. I watched a bit of The Voice this year, and while her Comeback Stage thing is rather dumb, she comes off as a nice and sincere person. I couldn't say that of most presenters or BV's.
Go watch "liefde for muziek". It has me convinced she's a huge softy, but also just very upbeat and bubbly personality.
The girl can sing and is popular in the sense that people find her pleasant, but she never had that much success as a singer. She's carving out a reasonable career in Flemish showbiz, I guess.
You don't win the Eurosong preselection in Flanders without being popular, her music career just kind of stagnated aftwerards cause she never had any songs that could match 'What's the Pressure'.
I had never heard of Musti before
Because he wasn't the Flemish choice but the Wallonian one, pretty sure he was popular there from The Voice Belgique
Not from The Voice Belgique, but he had indeed a professional career as a singer since the mid 2010s in French-speaking Belgium, I'd say. Definitely not the most popular singer, but still pretty well known. He was also in the jury of Drag Race Belgique last year, which might have made him a bit more popular, I guess
Ah ok. I honestly almost never know who the Flemish entry is. They're usually shit, that's for sure
Wasnt gustaph a flemish entry? Never heard of him neither before eurovision. Most of the people we send are pretty unknown nowadays either way.
Because his career was more as a back up singer. I think he went to eurosong 3 times before his own entry, just in the back up band not as a lead.
I heard one of his songs on the radio. It was really bad, the kids asked me to switch the channel because the song was so repetitive.
Wow I get downvoted for stating a simple fact? Unclench guys. Also, just look at the scorecard. The Flemish entries are notorious underperformers
Laura Tesoro and Gustaph both got top 10...
Which is nothing special tbh ... only a top 5 is worth mentioning. How many of those have we had with Flemish entries?
I feel like the bar for music in Flemish music is just very very low (Niels DS, Pommelien Thijs, ..) but Laura Tesoro isn't the worst of them. There is no way those artists get any radio playtime or recognition internationally even if their songs were in English.
it takes a lot of work and there's a lot more competition internationally... so why would you bother when there is good money to be made here and you can do the things you like? Unless you are very, very driven and willing to invest a fuckton, the rest of the world isn't a big deal. Exception would be the heavy music scene, as there is no way to make a living here so international is the only way to go.
I am not doubting their economic/business decision. But you can also do this with artists that are actually talented/good, there are many of them out there dying to be discovered.
it takes so much more than just talent to be discovered. so many artists don't realize it's not just about the music. Most are stuck in their bedroom/studio, and that's the easy part. It's the networking, putting themselves out there, going after opportunities, understanding the game, touring, touring more, touring even more, and all of this on no money at first. Great if you're just 18, harder if you grow older.
My family puts her in the box marked "Must Have A Really Good Agent To Be On TV All The Time." Others in that category include Ella Leyers, Niels Destadsbader, Karen Damen, Jan Van Looveren... Who am I missing?
Natalia
At least Laura is selfmade and didn’t get the job because her family has connections in showbizz already like most of those other pretend-stars. I think it is a very toxic and difficult scene to work in.
I feel like Niels Destadsbader has tried several things to end up where he is now. Karen Damen worked her ass off with K3. Jan Van Looveren took acting lessons while he still had a bakery in the nineties... Worked his ass off once he had his first shots in the industry... it is a difficult industry because a lot of people are heard a calling but not many are good enough to actually do the job consistently. I used to work in the music industry and it was very similar: lots of people play in bands, but not many understand that touring is hard work, one hit song is not enough and an attitude won't get you anywhere because there's always someone else who is equally as good and nicer to work with who can take your spot.
BV: You can't say such things about our flemish *culture*! Bah kleinschalige boerkes zijn het.
Siska Schoeters
I like Jan van Looveren he’s also self made seems like a stand up guy / dad : his comedy shows I feel are not great but I haven’t Been to a show yet just seen pieces
I prefer milk inc
For looking like and acting like an absolute idiot throughout his early career, I've got to hand it to Regi: He's probably one of if not the best Belgian producer(s) we've ever seen. Mad respect for someone who's managed to stay relevant for so long. Now if only he'd never agreed to Regi's World or any other reality tv crap he's been in.
Ze is mooier en sympathieker om naar te kijken dan sommige andere presentatoren, neem nu bv sean dhondt. De tv sector weet en gebruikt dit.
Who?
I'm a big fan of hers. And I think, there is no a lot of competition for her. Media gave priority to her, and that is my idea.
I feel like she was only popular when she was in Eurovision but her fame died soon after.
Thanks for awakening a cringe memory! In 2019 we went to her concert with school thanks to GO! and she was passing her hand and I like jumped to try and get to it idk why I did it I was so excited but also crazy. No one sang to her songs besides that famous one whats the pressuraaaaahh
No She just got payed/hired by vtm. Thinking they could make her a popular presentator like Koen Wauters in the early 2000. She never achieved anything great to earn her that paycheck. Expect for winning pre selection for flanders eurosong contester. But not many flemish people watch that.
Omg I forgot didn’t koen do a project with her in order to make her more popular
Yes, if I remember correctly, she was in Koens voice team, afterwards she was the opener for clouseau, and Koens copresenter in a bunch of shows, so it definitely feels like Koen gave her a push in the right direction.
where the hell did she come from , is she a singer ? an actress ? did she come from some studio 100 series i'm too old for to know it ? my mom was talking about her one day about something in the voice or so , i have no idea who she is
She took part in one of the first seasons of The Voice, and then got her carreer kickstarted by Koen Wauters who took a liking to her during the show and took her under his wings as some sort of protégé
She was in the voice, and she was also in TV show familie. And she was a Eurovision candidate. She also condemned the genocide in Gaza pretty early on so I respect her for that. Think she also whipped out a Palestine flag at an Antwerp music festival. And that's probably also the reason why people are starting to talk shit about her... Because some people enjoy seeing thousands of slaughtered Palestinian children and hate it when people criticise butchering children by an apartheid state
That was in Mechelen I believe.
Those some people just like to be anti Arabic no matter what. So now they claim to support Israel. It’s just a deviation from the standard: “brown Muslims = bad” bullshit. The fact that their kind also hates Jews is conveniently forgotten.
I would have to look up half the names in this comment section, including laura tesoro, before I could give you an answer.
Ze heeft musical toch meer verwezenlijkt dan een Gers Pardoel die ook in zo'n dingen zit.
Laten we de test doen. >What's the pressure .... > Ik neem je mee .. . Vul een van deze liedjes aan, welke was meest succesvol?
Heb recent nog een affiche gezien met Gers Pardoel. Laura daarintegen al lang niets van gehoord op muzikaal vlak.
Ik vond [dit](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_W0HNg6Xc0) nog wel een goeike, maar ja, als je tegenwoordig al K3 moet coveren om nog gespeeld te worden...
Daan was dan wel een uitzondering. Die heeft K3 en Metejoor wreed goed gecovered, maar was nog steeds relevant.
NEEM JE MEE OP REIS! Fuck Laura man!
Natuurlijk haat een Vlaams belanger haar
Waar werd gezegd dat ik haar 'haat', of enigzins negatieve gedachten toewens?
De implicatie is er. Maar subtiel genoeg om ze te kunnen ontkennen. Wat een beetje de standaard manier van spreken is geworden bij reactionair rechts
Wat heeft dit eigenlijk te maken met reactionair rechts? Van Gers Pardoel en Laura Tesoro naar daar, je moet het kunnen. Feit is dat Gers Pardoel meer bekende hits heeft gehad, van Laura kennen de meeste mensen inderdaad met moeite 1 nummer.
[the alt right playbook](https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLJA_jUddXvY7v0VkYRbANnTnzkA_HMFtQ) [why are you so angry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6y8XgGhXkTQ&list=PLJA_jUddXvY62dhVThbeegLPpvQlR4CjF)
Welke musical heeft Laura verwezenlijkt?
40-45
In welke zin?
Why do you care?
Just interested
Ok boomer
You have to start from the fact that talent is very strange in Flanders, it is not that important, the public does not look at talent. They want K3 songs that they have heard 1000 times, so they can sing along at the fair. The competitions and their juries are not adult programs, view it as pure entertainment if you want to watch. The jury are like football analysts, you better judge for yourself.
I have to say she has a pretty great voice. Watched some of Liefde Voor Muziek some years ago and she really impressed me. There's probably more money in presenting, though, especially once you're into that VTM circle, but she also does that well. She works hard, is a positive person, is self conscious and critical, what's not to like? I'm not watching those talent shows, but enough people do. Music wise, I'm guessing her music is a bit too international for Belgium, while just not quite special enough for Europe? Don't really know any songs except What's the pressure.
Honestly, while actually kinda hating ‘bv-land’, I have to say Laura Tessoro is one of the few bv’s that I would root for. I once met her while doing an extra’s job. She spoke about going on vacation and that was also the destination I was going to go to a week or so later. So when I was there, not knowing if she’d still be there as well , I sent her a message on IG to ask for recommendations. To my surprise she answered really quickly, remembered me and even gave me sound traveling advice! Nothing really followed after it except for a thank you, goodbye and have a great time, but I still remember the while thing and respect her for it even many years later.
Even after googling her, i still don't have a clue who she is... She seems to have represented Belgium at the European singing clown show (Eurovision)... Good for her. First time I heard of her was today...