Blanks – In Session at NPO2 – March 11, 2023 – NPO, Netherlands –
Over to Amsterdam tonight for a short set by Blanks, recorded live at Music Cafe for NPO2 On March 11, 2023.
Blanks is the stage name for Simon de Wit, a singer-songwriter who fairly burst onto the Dutch Music scene two years ago and has been doing well ever since.
Blanks started his own YouTube channel under the name of Music by Blanks in 2013. He published several music and vlog videos on his YouTube channel. The channel currently has over 1 million subscribers.
Blanks’ earliest videos were done in Dutch, but after his remake of Bazzi’s “Mine” went viral in February 2018, he decided to switch fully to English. One of his current video formats is “Style Swap” where he remakes an existing song into an 80s-style track. Blanks’ remake of Post Malone’s “Better Now” became his biggest breakthrough.
After doing cover videos for several years, Blanks started writing and producing his own music. His debut original single “Don’t Stop” was released in February 2019, and was added to the playlist of Dutch radio station NPO 3FM a few days after its release. Simon’s second release, “Wave”, was added to several radio stations abroad as well as the playlists of Dutch NPO Radio 2, NPO 3FM and became a “3FM Megahit”. Blanks was also awarded for the 3FM’s talent pool.
Blanks’ single “What You Do to Me” was released on 12 February 2021. It became a Harde schijf (“Hard record”) at Radio 538 during the radio programme of Barend van Deelen [nl].
A short (6+ minutes) set, but a good idea of what Blanks is all about and why you’ll probably be hearing more of him in the future.
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