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In 2020, he co-presented one day on NRJ Radio, after the request of his cousin, who worked as a DJ at the station. Meanwhile, he told
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on 30 January 2007 as a result of over 15,000 single sales and legal downloads of the song, making him the youngest
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the song contest on a screen on the local market square. At the contest, Salden eventually finished 7th, out of fifteenth.
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toy recorder. The eventual final version of "Een tocht door het donker" ("A Journey
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