dutch rapper · eurovision · hip hop · electronic music · confident · provocative · tragic backstory · albino records · stage performer · controversial
May 10, 2024. The rehearsal hall hums with the nervous energy of the approaching Eurovision final. A sudden silence falls when the next performer doesn't take the stage. From behind the heavy velvet curtains, low, strained voices drift out. Then he steps into the light: Joost, his blonde hair tousled, his tailored dark blue suit looking strangely out of place now. The usual electric spark in his eyes is gone, replaced by a hollow, stunned emptiness. The word 'disqualified' hangs in the air around him, a specter of the scandal that just ripped his dream away.