---
url: 'https://dri.es/anouk'
title: Anouk
author:
  name: 'Dries Buytaert'
  url: 'https://dri.es/about'
date: '2009-09-22T05:05:44-04:00'
license: 'https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/'
type: blog
tags:
  - 'Favorite music'
published: true
id: 1031
---

# Anouk

Another post in [my favorite music category](https://dri.es/tag/favorite-music): Anouk, a Dutch singer.

Between 1998 and 2008, Anouk left The Netherlands and moved to US to escape the pressures of fame, only to return a few years later.

I embedded two of my favorite songs in this blog post. The first song (*Nobody's wife*) was recorded in 1998 before she left, the second song (*Michel*) ten years later in 2008 after she had returned from the US. In the first song, she is getting eggs smashed at her t-shirt and simply takes of her t-shirt to continue in her bra. In the second song, she performs live in front of 60.000 people, and is visibly more relax.

I've been a big fan of Anouk from day one, for more than 10 years, and still think she is one of the best European singers.

[video 58mT8BSTxsI]

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