Ben Saunders is a Dutch singer who won the first-ever title of the Dutch singing competition series The Voice of Holland. Saunders is also a tattoo artist and a Mixed martial arts fighter. He is popularly known as "Tattoo Ben".
In 2000, Dean (his brother) and Ben Saunders both took part in Alles voor de band: Follow that dream. They were part of the band Follow That Dream (F.T.D.) (that included besides the two brothers Vanessa Eman, Rosa Vuik, Linda van Toornburg and Peter van der Meer)
Their debut single the self-titled "Follow That Dream" was released in November 2000 reaching #25 in the Dutch Top 40. 6 months later, the band split after the great popularity of the rival Starmaker show.
The Saunders brothers took part in the 2003 Dutch Nationaal Songfestival, a Dutch national music pre-selection contest for qualification to Eurovision Song Contest to be held in Riga, Latvia. They performed the song "Stand As One" in the third heat under the name "The Brothers" getting just 10 points and finishing with 3% of the popular vote as seventh out of 8 participants.
In 2010, Ben Saunders applied to The Voice of Holland singing competition proving to be very popular with both judges and the voting public, after singing in his audition "Use Somebody" from Kings of Leon. Ben was coached by Roel van Velzen.
Use Somebody
In the final, he sang his number one single, his cover version rendition of "If You Don't Know Me by Now"
and duetted with Welsh singer Duffy on her song "Warwick Avenue" and won by 59% of the votes against runner-up Pearl Jozefzoon.
Kill For a Broken Heart
Dry Your Eyes
All Over
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