Glennis Grace – Oh Holy Night Live

Glenda Hulita Elisabeth Batta (born 19 June 1978), better known by her stage name Glennis Grace, is a Dutch singer from Amsterdam. In 2005 Grace represented the Netherlands in the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest and in 2018 she appeared on the 13th season of America’s Got Talent and made it to the finals. Grace has received online attention due to the similarity between her vocalization and that of Whitney Houston.
Grace was born in Amsterdam to a Dutch mother and a father from Curaçao. She got discovered at the age of 15 years after she won the Dutch TV talent show in 1994 called Soundmixshow, where she performed the song “One Moment in Time” by Whitney Houston.
In 2005, Grace accepted the offer to participate in the Nationaal Songfestival, the national selection in the Netherlands for Eurovision Song Contest 2005. Grace performed the ballad “My Impossible Dream” and won the final with this song. She and then represented the Netherlands in Kyiv, where the 50th edition of the Eurovision Song Contest was held. In Kyiv Grace did not make it through the final.

In April 2011, she reached the top of the Dutch singles chart with a rendition of “Afscheid”, a 1998 hit of the band Volumia!, which she sang in the Dutch television program Beste Zangers.

In 2012, Grace was one of the founding members of the Dutch supergroup named Ladies of Soul, together with other singers Candy Dulfer, Berget Lewis, Edsilia Rombley and Trijntje Oosterhuis. Oosterhuis left the group in 2017.She was set to perform in the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 in Rotterdam, Netherlands alongside DJ and music producer Afrojack, although this event was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The performance took place at the rescheduled competition in May 2021.