{"id":148946,"date":"2023-01-19T14:15:07","date_gmt":"2023-01-19T13:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=148946"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:26:36","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:26:36","slug":"after-the-voice-van-vlaanderen-medical-student-rosann-would-like-to-pursue-a-career-in-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2023\/01\/19\/after-the-voice-van-vlaanderen-medical-student-rosann-would-like-to-pursue-a-career-in-music\/","title":{"rendered":"After The Voice van Vlaanderen, medical student Rosann would like to pursue a career in music"},"content":{"rendered":"

Student Rosann Kerckhaert made it to the semi-final of The Voice van Vlaanderen<\/em>, the Belgian counterpart of The Voice of Holland<\/em>. \u201cI want to inspire young people to pursue their dreams, even if those seem impossible.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Rosann during the first live show of The Voice van Vlaanderen.<\/span><\/p>

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For the last year and a half, medical student Rosann Kerckhaert\u2019s life revolved around The Voice van Vlaanderen. A series of rehearsals, interviews and live shows made for a jam-packed agenda. Unfortunately, she had to leave the competition after the semi-final. \u201cIt was hard. I had been working at it for a long time, and suddenly it was all over. I had been looking forward to it my whole life, and that was it\u201d, the 21-year-old student candidly explains.<\/p>\n

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In this live show, Rosann sang <em>Dat heb jij gedaan<\/em> by Meau.<\/span><\/p>

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Rosann, who was born and raised in Zeelandic Flanders, has been fascinated by the talent show from a young age. Every Friday night without fail, she would sit in front of the TV to watch The Voice van Vlaanderen. \u201cI thought the live shows were so cool and interesting\u201d, she recalls. She had never thought about pursuing a career in the music world herself, until she started writing songs and performing small gigs during her time at university. \u201cOnly then did I think: this is really cool, so maybe I should go for it after all.\u201d<\/p>\n

Medical internship postponed<\/h2>

Her decision to take part in The Voice was partly due to COVID-19. Because of the pandemic, her medical internship was postponed. \u201cIt was awful for me, because I\u2019m a die-hard student. I love studying. As an over-achiever, it\u2019s a bummer to hear that you have to wait a year to continue your studies\u201d, she says. To make the most of the year, she signed up for The Voice. \u201cEach round, I thought: \u2018it probably won\u2019t work out\u2019, but I made it through every time!\u201d, she laughs.<\/p>\n

Water mishap during blind audition<\/h2>

Her goal was to do a blind audition. In this round, the coaches sit in a chair with their back to the contestants. If they think a participant should go through to the next round, they press a red button and turn their chair around. \u201cIt\u2019s cool that famous people are judging your voice\u201d, the fourth-year student says.<\/p>\n

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Rosann during the second live show.<\/span><\/p>

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She didn\u2019t expect to move on to the live shows. \u201cRight before I went on stage for the blind audition, I was doing vocal exercises with a Lax Vox bottle\u201d, she says. The Lax Vox method<\/a> is a way to warm up your voice by blowing through a tube into a bottle of water. \u201cDuring the bubbling exercise, I got water all over myself! So I rushed to dry my clothes with a hair dryer. I thought, \u2018The audition is ruined. I\u2019m just going to sing a song and go home\u2019.\u201d<\/p>\n

With that thought, she took the stage to sing the song Altijd wel iemand <\/em>by Huub van der Lubbe. \u201cSo I was pretty chill up there\u201d, she says. \u201cI also thought that, if the coaches were going to turn their chairs, they would only do it at the end. But suddenly, three of them turned around, and I thought: what, already? I haven\u2019t done anything exciting yet\u201d, she laughs.<\/p>\n

Dutch songs<\/h2>

In the subsequent live shows, Rosann won the hearts of the Flemish audience. She sang Dutch songs like Liefde van later <\/em>by Herman van Veen and Dat heb jij gedaan <\/em>by Meau. <\/em>In the second live show, she performed her own translation of Radiohead\u2019s Creep<\/em>. \u201cI feel comfortable with Dutch songs, and my coach, singer Koen Wauters, supported me in that. He gave me lots of tips, but he mostly let me stay true to myself. That\u2019s why I always felt good on stage.\u201d<\/p>\n

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