Another artists slays SOUND OF SILENCE. Henk Poort from Beste Zangers | First Time Hearing 

Btw after seeing this you HAVE to watch Floor and Henks performance of phantom of the opera (also beste zangers), it was insane

So in this show, a group of really good singers (hence the name Best Singers) gather. Every episode highlights one singer, the others then sing that person's song (usually they then make that song in their own style, they usually choose different types like opera, pop and classical singers). It is usually quite emotional because the highlighted singer in that episode gets to hear his/her songs in a different style. Also they can choose to sing a different song (like sound of silence) if they believe or know that that person loves the song. I hope you get. Anyhow, they're not judges but there to enjoy hearing others sing their own versions of known (Dutch) songs. And yeah the set up is really pretty, I'm pretty sure they all travel to a beautiful place together where they film this, so they get a lot closer.

Henk Poort is an Opera Singer, who had to learn the Metal grunge growl. He and Floor are friends and he was singing this song for her.

What impressed me most about this, is he’s doing this while he’s sitting on a stool. Do you know how incredibly hard it is to sing powerful chords when you were just sitting? This guys got talent!

That's the diaphragmatic support of an opera singer for ya. Can we also take a moment to appreciate that he's getting that kind of volume while sitting?

So American thinking. Everything needs to be a competition. The show is just friends and good singers gathering together and singing each other.

I love this show! I’m Dutch and this is absolutely one of the best Dutch shows we have!! This season was one of the best ones! Henk Poort is one of our top Dutch opera singers, he couldn’t have done any better!

Henk Poort is an opera singer in our country, and Beste zangers is a program where the artists are singing a song that is completely out of there comfort zone

Him raising his eyebrows at the end of this performance was him saying, "That's right I did that."

Henk never used distortion before this show. It was Floor who teached him how to do that. He is a beginner in that department. He is a classicly trained singer and played the Phantom in the dutch version of Phantom of the opera. So check out when he and Floor sings Phantom of the opera from this show. Henk said yes to do that duet on one condition. That he could sing it with Nightwish the next time that they play in The Netherland. And Floor accepted.

Quick info about this artist. Henk Poort, born 20 January 1956 in Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a Dutch actor and singer, who mainly plays in operas and musicals. The old engine is still running smoothly. Amazing.

Henk Poort is like 65 years old. And grunting his heart out!

Henk is actually a musical theatre performer. He played major roles like the phantom of the opera... hence that performance with Floor. Like Sterre explained that episode, where did the duet, they sang "his" songs.

It’s a Dutch show where artists sing songs from each other which gives them the opportunity to sing genres they will otherwise never do and you can see they really enjoy it. To do this they go for a week to a location where they live and perform together. In that week they perform a number for every singer in the team, so there are enough episodes for a complete season. The season with Floor and Henk was phenomenal. The competition element is very minor btw, it’s more about fun and respect and love for music.

For most Dutch English is their first foreign language and they hear it on radio and televison, both American and UK English versions, so we automatically have an accent as we pick up the language from both versions. Almost all series and movies are subtitled in the Netherlands (including German/French/Italian and Spanish series). Contrary to some countries were they do a Voice-over and you hear "Dirty Harry" in a complete other voice-lvl and timbre to his own voice.(Check it in a German version, sorry neighbours ;-) ). To become a native speaker in English, US or UK variant. you have to live for a few years in the country itself.

I dont know If anybody Said it but Henk poort is mostly known to be an opera Singer

emotional song ..his baritone is haunting...thats also a cue that this is just an amazingly written song.

Wow, I am sort of amazed that Beste Zangers slipped through the cracks thus far, so really happy you got to it! If you do more of these, especially Henk and Emma, or Henk and Floor, you will have to pick your jaw up off the floor, as it were.

They’re singing songs for each other. All singers.

Awesome. I think is so mesmerizing because it usually doesn't have much staging/choreography. They just stand/sit and sing. Allows you the time to focus on the sounds coming out.

AH , finally ready for Henk Poort (and Floor Jansen) ? Soo glad you did it and enjoyed it ( I know you would ) and it was really worth the waiting :) !! Now it's time for Henk and Floor ( Phantom of the opera ) and maybe even Henk with Emma Heesters singing Vivo Per Lei , that one will give you goosebumps as well !! Loved your reaction ( as always) :) !!

I can't believe you keep finding my favorite singers, even when I think they are not similar to each other. I love your reactions! You can find full episodes of Beste Zangers on RU-vid, but turn on the captions because it's in Dutch. It's well worth it! Henk was the Dutch Phantom in the 90's, so please listen to his and Floor's duet! For contrast, listen to her do Winner for Tim Akkerman, which he wrote for his brother, a paraplegic. It's so simple and so touching. Oh, by the way: it's a very metal version of Phantom they do.

People tend to call Floor Jansen the most underrated gem of The Netherlands, but Henk Poort is definitely the male diamond. Loved him ever since I found his original cast recordings of the Dutch production of Phantom of the Opera, which he did almost 30 years ago.

In case you dont know yet: de beste zangers (literally translated The best singers) is a annual program where a variety of the best singers of the netherlands come together and sing covers and songs of each other.

Henk has that kind of power because he is a professional opera singer. Distortion is a big no-no in opera and this was the first time he has ever done it and he did it just for Floor. You need to check out more from Beste Zangers 2019. It is a Dutch program that gets together artists from different genres of music. They learn about each other, and their styles or genres and then every week one of the seven is honored by each of the others singing a song that has special meaning to the person being honored. I can be a song they wrote, a song they are known for performing or just a favorite. Floor did some absolutely killer performances from opera through pop through musical theater and other genres. Need I say all of them were fantastic? Please check them out. She was the first to perform and most of the others didn't know who she was, only that she sang metal. They soon learned though. She blew them away week after week.

It's always amazed me when singers perform in another language and then you get one of the biggest pop groups ABBA where they not only performed but Benny and Bjorn wrote in a language that wasn't their mother tongue.. unbelievable👏👏

You see he is just sitting there while singing this song, what a power and control!

The format of the program is that one singer is in the picture at that evening and the others performs a song of him or her. Indeed you have to watch also Henk and Floor performing Phantom of The Opera.Henk is a Opera singer also.

All the people on the sofas are successful recording artists, taking turns singing for each other. Here Henk is singing specifically for Floor, going out of his comfort zone to do something Metal for her.

I will add that this is a ‘live’ show done every year but with different (sometimes unknown) singers of different styles. All in a very intimate setting. Mostly the singers choose a dear song (from his/her repertoire or some with which they have a common bond) of the one sitting on the couche (from your position right next to the host sitting left). Mostly they arrange the song towards their own genre helped and supported by the backing band who also are awesome live performers. Lead by the Marcel Fisher Band (band leader) About Beste Zangers 2019 you can find bunches of good performances from all episodes on the Internet, also from previous years back to 2010 all accompanied by the same band. The show became quiet popular around the world. Due to the talks are in Dutch several interpreters did made subtitles in multiple languages and post whole broadcasts to make those also available for non-Dutch speakers. Look for RU-vids ‘with ..... subtitles’

I am dutch. And these are some of the best singers in the netherlands

Really enjoyed that! Awesome voice!

You should watch the whole season with this group

It's a show with 7 different artists. Every episode is about one artist, wich means that the other 6 cover a song from that artist in this episode. It's not a competition, it's just about enjoying music.

hii from the netherlands “beste zangers” soo nice that you give it a shot to watch it !! the woman in the beginning is floor jansen watch those two when they singing together i bet you gonna melt haha peace ❤️

Henk is grunting for Floor. Tryingt to earn her respect. I think he's doing a fabulous job. Henk reinvinted himself.

you can translate it 2 ways: 1: the best singers 2: dear singers Both are quite accurate to what the program is about. They look for really good artists from the Netherlands and pit the against one another but what they do is they also sing for each other by picking songs in the style of the highlighted artist on the sofa in the middle and adding their own style in it. Right now Floor is being highlighted and Henk is doing the sound of silence for Floor as it is one of Floors favorites. Note that Henk never had training in distortion before the program and practiced it for about 10hours give or take just for this performance and was quite nervous about it.

When a goddes smiles to you you know you did good.

best zangers is a program where all the dutch ppl come together to each other songs :) they on a holiday for 2 weeks :) to a nice place.

Really liked that pointing out on the world map thing. We are a tiny country and most Americans have no clue. Don't even know that the Dutch were the first successful settlers and had a great influence on the USA today. Many have already explained what this show is about. So this tiny country, surrounded by others and depending a lot on trade and love traveling, basically learn 4 languages in school. We're the #1 country in the world that has English as 2nd language and now even some 50% of our universities teach in English only. We are the #2 exporter of agricultural products in the world (after the USA but we are many times smaller). Schools teach UK English, many movies and series on tv are US English so often it's a mix of those two.

Bro I just found your channel a few hours ago and I’ve been binge watching all your videos for the past few hours, i found your channel through PTX and it’s currently 4:04AM. Congrats on making it so far with your channel in just a few months, love the reactions bro.👍🏻💯👏🏻

Henk learn distortion in 2 hours, he is even singing sitting , what is hard to do..

hey beste zangers is a program with 8 dutch singers and every week there is 1 singer sitting in the middle and the other 7 singers will cover his/her songs in there style of music. For example floor covers a song of henk but she will cover it to metal style.

I like the way that you were as captivated as most of the people watching this. Sometimes you just have to enjoy and say nothing. by the way, best singers is about singers from the Netherlands. Some are famous in the Netherlands, some are not. Just like floor was not well known in the Netherlands, although she is from the Netherlands. The point is to sing songs from the other artists, or songs that mean something to them. In all cases, they must have good voices. After this show, floor got a lot more attention also in the Netherlands.

Thank you for this reaction video. Let the other 'Beste Zangers' reaction follow please!!!

You should check out Minami - Hollowness for another take on an amazing Japanese Singer. She has growls of gold.

chills

The tv show best singer (beste zanger) are different singers from the netherlands. One singer is the headguest of the episode and the other singers are singing songs that means something for the headguest of that episode.

But it is his style of singing. Listen to his and floor's duet of the phantom of the opera for the same series. I have tried to find out more about the series " Beste Zangers" my Dutch sucks but roughly means best singers. It doesn't seem to be a contest show like The Voice or AGT, I think its just a showcase to really good singers to perform stuff they might not get the chance too. You really should listen to the phantom duet even if you don't do a reaction to it. Floor will knock your socks off, then when Henk finishes you'll be standing there nekkid.

To answer your question about singing in different languages is pretty easy actually. Music is universal and as long as you feel it and read what the song is about in you native language you can feel it all just within the music

You absolutely must react to the Puddles Pity Party version as well.

Amazing.

A lot of people told you already haha, but these people are all dutch singers, there are a lot (i mean really a lot) good video's of this programm on RU-vid ! (De beste zangers van Nederland) Best singers of the netherlands

Leuk om te zien hoe wij Nederlanders achter het succes van Henk aanhollen bij dit soort video's hahaha Het is dan ook verschrikkelijk goed

W O W that was great, no...AWESOME : )

Beste Zangers was not a competition but I watched all of this season and Floor clearly "won". But Henk Poort was a solid second! The man is a true pro; very versatile. I was very impressed with him. And watch the Floor performances from Beste Zangers; in my opinion it clearly cements her place as the greatest female vocalist on the plane!

Beste zangers is a dutch program, every year they select a couple of really good singers to do covers.

He sounds like a church singer, very captavating ,and he has that bit of shakeness to his voice, i loved this

A group Dutch singers gives the other singers a list of their favourite songs to sing. And the others pick one and have a turn to sing.

It's amazing. The decor is on party island Ibiza.

Davina Michelle was also on this show. Her singing anything is awesome. She went viral singing “what about us?” from Pink. You should absolutely check her out! Insane voice! Side note...your shirt says NC State...do you live in NC?! Cuz I do!

So "Beste Zangers" is a program from the Netherlands where a lot of famous dutch people who can sing (you heard that right, mostly popular singers but some aren't singer as primary profession) come together and one of the famous singers will sing a song for every other member sitting there with a certain meaning behind it. I don't know the specifics myself since I never watched it however, I am from the country haha. And yes it does mean Best Singers

Henk is originally an opera singer!

Have you already checked out Making Christmas from Pentatonix? Also great! Thanks for your passion for music :) all the best

Beste Zangers is a competition (in episodes) where singers from the Netherlands play against and for eachother. On this program they Will be An enemy while they at the same time Just making good Friends with eachother. Maybe Nice to know, Floor Janssen won this episode ;)

You should do pxt imagine!! Also you should listen to anthem of the opera from beste zangers. It is also with Henk poort. It is really good

All hail henk poort, the phantom himself, the myth, the legend.

Henk Poort (Hank Port) is a Dutch opera-singer and singing with distortion is a big NO NO for opera singers. Talk about Floor and the Dutch tv-show "Beste Zangers" (Best Singers). If you want to see how versatile Floor Jansen is, check (or pick) out one (or more) of this 2019 edition : Floor Jansen & Henk Poort (opera singer) - Phantom of the Opera: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-plCScjvDOJM.html Floor Jansen - Que se siente: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DfYeLUoqw0E.html Floor & Tim Akkerman - Shallow: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Pf7Xd3IVtU.html Henk Poort & Emma Heesters - Vivo Per Lei: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-OumZnDaQINo.html Emma Heesters (ex RU-vidr cover singer) - Strong: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lGYtFfgQoSQ.html (a song that brought tears in Floor's eyes) Rolf Sanchez (solo singer) - Hotel California: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-yktsfh2sEv8.html Tim Akkerman (ex Di-Rect (band)) - Nemo: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-aRu-2tWzRf8.html Or opera singer Maria Fiselier (season 2018) with her version of “Lose Yourself” (Eminem): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-8YyuIkVSx-8.html There are more where the few above came from ! Btw: In this tv-show, Floor sang songs in Dutch, German, Spanish and English. Btw2: Next time you react to something of this program, you can point your arrow on the isle of Ibiza (east of Spain), because all of these shows are taped on this Spanish isle 😉.

Check out Floor's performances on this show! Vilja lied, Winner, shallow with Tim.

You should react to just sing from voiceplay, it's a little different from what they usually do but I am sure that it would defenetly make an interesting video

Great reaction...can you please react to Davina Michell's cover on "What about us" from Pink

Loved your reaction ... keep up the good work ! ... and ..there are more great dutch singers .... You also should check out ; Og3ne ... 3 sisters ... singing a Queen ( Freddy Mercury ) song ... got the compliments of Queen itself !

You gotta watch Barcelona from the same show!

Could you please react to a song from davina michelle? She has lovely covers but also a few amazing own songs!

Enjoyed your reactions. You and I have had the same question run through our heads,( how is it one can sing in another language, yet not always speak it). Keep them coming

Best Singers in the Netherlands

WOW!!! Goose Pimples!!

He is a former opera singer that's way he has that much control on his voice

Check out Winner by Floor on this show. So good

Watch tania kross & tommie christiaan covers Barcelona In the best zangers The blow you away 🤩

Hey I'm early again

Many Europeans (except us British who are a lot lazier) speak English exceptionally well from school onwards. I think this is a Dutch TV program (Floor Jansen is Dutch I know). I expect all speak English better than most Americans and many English people :)

The crickets? In the background are annoying but 1st impression and a few notes is I’m gonna love this.

I believe you will love Ghost Love Score by Nightwish. Floor Jansen is the lead singer of this Finnish symphonic metal band. Essentially, it is a ten minute song with different genres that ultimately do make sense together. Here is the link to a live performance of them at Wacken Open Air in 2013. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-JYjIlHWBAVo.html It is really worth the watch!

you have to remeber the dutch speak with gutteril sounds.

lol , I have Philips speakers from 1978, does that count for something ? I hate earphones

Beste Zangers....... Maria Fiselier (mezzo-soprano) made a very nice version in Eminem's "Lose Yourself", even classically trained singer can sing rap :P

'Problem' for Henk is that he speaks with a strong Amsterdam accent where the S and Z both are pronounced as an S.

it's like port/lord.. Henk Poort.. you just got to extend the o a little.. like in home.. so like po(o)rt)/lo(o)rd

Please react to Disturbed with the Sound of Silence. Which found you better? Henk Poort or David D. ?

4:20 WTF face engaged...

check Henk Poort & Emma Heesters - Vivo Per Lei

Wondering if you would like Mr Probz - Waves and Kensington - Uncharted

Btw go and look to emma heesters and henk poort togheter

Proper singing for you; de kerel heeft heel goed gedaan

Giving yourself a geography lesson here. Hehe.

FYI, Poort or Port is pronounced the same in Dutch. The 2nd 'o' for us is silent. (Pun intended).

he looks like gene hackman

Hello if you like this, then you should definitely watch this Emma Heesters - Strong ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-lGYtFfgQoSQs.htmlhe sings a song by and for Floor Jansen, it is in the same show Beste Zangers 2019!

Beste zangers dat is in het engels best singers