Dutch singer who gained international recognition (excluding the
US, though she tried to break through there too yet failed due to '
communication problems'. 'They made me dress like a
slut' --Anouk) in 1997 with her hit single '
Nobody's wife'.
End '97 she released 'Together Alone', an album that wasn't all that bad for a debut album. Some songs got catchy tunes, some got strange blues chords, some were a capella. The musical diversity can probably be explained by the fact that all melody lines were written by other musicians, mostly Golden Earring-members, while she wrote a lot of the lyrics herself.
Two other songs on the album became major hits, '
Sacrifice' and '
It's so hard'. Anouk and her band toured for two and a half years, got health problems and took a break. The break resulted in the album '
Urban Solitude', with the hit single '
Michel' (released in June 2000), Anouk's sung letter to her (ex)
boyfriend Michel, also a band member.