Music was Stien den Hollander’s salvation. From a young age she suffered from depression and psychosis, which explains the titles of her earliest releases ‘Antipsychotica’ (2017) and ‘Lithium’ (2018). Nowadays she’s doing much better and she credits rapping and singing for that. As S10 (pronounced es-tien) she grew to be the Netherlands’ crown princess of alternative pop. She’d already won a prestigious Edison Award at the age of 19. In Belgium she gained renown as a guest in Bazart’s ‘Onderweg’ (2021). Then there’s ‘De Diepte’, the gorgeous epic she submitted to the 2022 Eurovision Song Festival – in Dutch, as she’s telling the story of her own life. ‘Zonder Gezicht’, a duet with her good friend Froukje, was crowned Song of the Year by our northern neighbours. ‘De Diepte’ finished second...
