We have decided to give some promotion to the Afrikaans artists who have registered to take part in the first Afric music song contest. We will try and highlight each and every artist who have already registered. We will do it at random and first up is COLE VAN DAIS. Besides registering as a solo artist, she is registered in duets with several artists as well as part of a trio. Cole has covered many Eurovision songs already.
As solo artist she has done
Azerbaijan 2012 as Wanneer die musiek verdwyn
Cyprus 1987 as Die eiland
Denmark 2007 as Glans prinses
Denmark 2013 as Waar in die wereld is jy (which features a part in Danish)
France 1987 as Leef in my hart
Georgia 2008 as Vrede sal kom
Iceland 1987 as Dink aan my
Romania 2009 as Suid-Afrikaanse meisies
San Marino 2013 as Drome van my hart
As one member of a duo
with Katrina (of the waves) Love shine a light – UK 1997
with Joran Steinhauer (of Aarzemnieki) Dinge dong (part in Latvian) – 1975
with Organ Prawang (of Thailand) Dear friend – Croatia 1995 (partly in Thai)
with Marc Rantseli Peace will come – Georgia 2008 (a duet in 4 languages – Afrikaans, English, Zulu and Spanish)
with Emmanuel Castis Ek’s so lief vir jou – UK 2016
with Sergey Sysuev (of Ukraine) Spirit of the night – San Marino 2017 (part in Russian)
with Righardt Greyling Kom saam met my – Latvia 2004
as DUO AFRICA (with a singer from Nigeria) – Moleyho – Belarus 2013 (part in a local language of Nigeria)
as CHESS GIRLS – Op die dansvloer – Germany 2013 (Afrikaans, German and Tsonga)
Lastly as part of AFRICA SENSATION TRIO – City lights – Belgium 2017 (part of the song in Xhosa)
We wish Cole a lot of luck in Afri music song contest and cannot wait to hear all the entries.