Eloy de Jong

Eloy Francois Maurice Gilbert Charles Prosper de Jong (born March 13, 1973) is a Dutch pop singer and moderator. He became known in the early 1990s as a member of the English-Dutch boy group Caught in the Act. In 2004, he made a comeback as solo singer. In 2018, he reached number 1 on the German album charts with his German-language albums.

Eloy de Jong
Jong at ZDF-Fernsehgarten in 2018
Born
Eloy Francois Maurice Gilbert Charles Prosper de Jong

(1973-03-13) 13 March 1973
The Hague, Netherlands
NationalityDutch
OccupationPop singer and moderator
Partner(s)Yes
Children1

Life
Eloy de Jong in 2015

Eloy Francois Maurice Gilbert Charles Prosper de Jong was born on March 13, 1973 in The Hague, Netherlands.

As a teenager, Eloy de Jong was the Dutch youth champion in Latin American dances. In 1993, he successfully emerged from the casting organized by producer Cees van Leeuwen, in which the boy group Caught in the Act was put together. After their initial failures, the band made a breakthrough in the Netherlands and Germany after performing in the RTL soap opera Gute Zeiten, Schlechte Zeiten in November 1994. By 1998, the band had placed three albums in the German top ten and sold more than 20 million records. After a farewell concert on August 16, 1998 in Magdeburg, the band split up.

In the summer of 1999, de Jong came back into the public eye when he and his friend, Irish singer Stephen Gately from the band Boyzone, became the first members of boy bands to appear gay. In 2002, the two separated. After that, De Jong had a relationship with the moderator Carlo Boszhard for a while.

In 2004, he started his career as a solo singer and landed a minor hit in his home country with the single Angel In Disguise.

De Jong started a family a few years ago, and he and his partner became fathers of a daughter and a son, but the son died at birth.[1][2] The girl grows up with two fathers and her mother,[3] according to the model of a coparenting.

Discography

Albums
  • 2018: Kopf aus – Herz an

Singles

  • 2004: Angel in Disguise
  • 2017: Regenbogen
  • 2018: Egal was andere sagen
  • 2018: Schritt für Schritt
  • 2018: Liebe kann so weh tun (with Marianne Rosenberg)
  • 2018: An deiner Seite
  • 2019: Kopf aus, Herz an ... und tanz! Samba
  • 2019: Dieses Lied (Herzstück Amazon Original)
  • 2020: Solange wir uns haben

Awards
Eloy de Jong in 2015

2019
  • Die Eins der Besten, category: „Newcomer des Jahres“ ("Newcomer of the year")
  • smago! Award, category: „Senkrechtstarter des Jahres“ ("Whiz of the year")
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References
  1. "Eloy de Jong: Drama um seine Tochter Indy | GALA.de". m.gala.de. Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  2. mdr.de. "Eloy de Jong: "Wenn ich auf der Bühne stehe, singe ich für meinen toten Sohn" | MDR.DE". www.mdr.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-07-05.
  3. "Eloy de Jong: So wächst seine Tochter mit zwei Vätern auf". www.t-online.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-07-05.
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