Davina Michelle

Michelle Davina Hoogendoorn (born 12 November 1995), known by her stage name Davina Michelle, is a Dutch singer and YouTuber.

In 2018, her cover of the song "Duurt te lang" reached the number one spot on the Dutch Top 40, becoming the first woman in 11 years to do so with a Dutch-language song. "Hoe het danst", her 2019 collaboration with Marco Borsato and Armin van Buuren, also reached number one and became the first Dutch-language song to record over 100 million streams on Spotify.

Career

Named after Michelle Pfeiffer and Davina McCall, Hoogendoorn comes from a family with three children. Around the age of four, she was a big fan of Britney Spears. She made it her goal to become the next Britney Spears, but kept this to herself. In secondary school, encouraged by her music teacher, she began performing for the webcam, but did not post these performances for her classmates. She asked her parents for a microphone and better software to record her voice for her eighteenth birthday. She posted the recordings on social media, and her friends and family were excited about the results. Still, she also caught the attention of the songwriter and production group Sub-Bass Music Group, who saw potential in her.

In 2016, Hoogendoorn participated in the fifth season of Idols. During her audition, she sang Jessie J's "Nobody's Perfect", after which she went on to the theater round and the duet round, where she was eliminated.