It has just been announced that Blanche, who represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest in Kyiv year, securing the second 4th place for her country in just 3 years, has been awarded a European Border Breakers Award!
A European Border Breakers Award (or EBBA) is ”an annual prize awarded to recognise the success of ten emerging artists or groups who reached audiences outside their own countries with their first internationally released album in the past year.”
Blanche herself is aboslutely delighted and lets her fans know:
I’m so so glad to be one of this year’s European Border Breakers Awards ! This is really one of the accomplishment that shows how successful the song has been, and that, is due to all of people that have support and keep supporting by listening, buying, sharing and singing the song ? It makes me even more excited to share all the rest with you !! xx
Other winners of the same award that have participated in Eurovision as well are Helena Paparizou (received an EBBA in 2007) and The Common Linnets (won an EBBA in 2015). Tiziano Ferro, Icona Pop, Zedd, Dua Lipa and Adele.
So far 3 other EBBA winners have been revealed and those are the band Off Bloom from Denmark, Skott from Sweden and Alice Merton from Germany.
ESCBubble wishes to congratulate Blanche on this achievement!
