'Emma Kok - Hallelujah | First Time Reaction" 

LOVE Your REACTION ❤️EMMA IS AMAZING. GREETINGS FROM THE NETHERLANDS 🇳🇱

🤗🍒🌹 well done Bro

if it is not DUTCH ,IT AIN'T MUCH !!!!!!!!!!!

I think Cohen would be pleasantly surprised and not just a little, to hear this version of his own song. They lifted it to another level. But the Dutch had to do it.

That was beautiful. Brava Emma! Brava! ♥🌹

Emma recently performed her new song *DANCING ON THE STARS* , which was written over twenty years ago but the author held it until the right person came along to sing it, which was Emma: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ll1uR_HUOP8.html

Thanks for this comment, look that's the reason why we bought tickets for the Christmas concert at MECC in Maastricht

Lovely reaction thank you

Other performances from her Dancing on the stars: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ll1uR_HUOP8.html I'm a warrior (this is going to hurt you): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-fFZ_qHpDJZo.html Halleluja (and this is going to finish you off): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9qVHQuPQud0.html You raise me up: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NIXB7TbeMvw.html Father: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zXWBj7-edWU.html&pp=ygUIZW1tYSBrb2s%3D Hero: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-iYVEIXwNmT8.html&pp=ygUNZW1tYSBrb2sgaGVybw%3D%3D Door de wind: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Vpin7CjdU2I.html Here on my own: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--8K9i3N7xO4.html

Just for your info, she is fifteen in this.

Andre and Emma are back from the world tour that started in January 2024. Emma has a new song “Dancing on the Stars” . Absolutely spectacular.! Special song for Emma . She is an inspiration to all!!

Zero it's very clear that Emma has managed to impress you significantly, which comes across in your words, and your reaction. 12 months ago, when she sang Voila with Andre Rieu, we all thought that she'd hit perfection, and in so many ways, she did, but now, as a result of Andre's gentle encouragement as she's been touring with him for the end of 2023, and now into 2024, with 75 concerts planned, Emma has beuatifully learnt more of her trade, and then, she went to Andre earlier this year with a new song, Dancing on the stars, which Andre listened to, and had no issue with working his magic on it with Emma, and it was first heard in this year's summer concerts in Maastricht, and for now, all I will say is that you do not want to miss this one, she has set the perfection bar even higher, and then delivered a gold medal winning performance that went so far over the bar, it is an absolutely incredible song, the technical additions to her repertoire make it even stronger than Voila, and that's had in excess of 64 Million views on RU-vid alone, if all the social media streams are added, it's massively over 100 Million, in 12 months. This new song is even better, in three weeks, the RU-vid view count is 4.3 Million, and that's only youtube, it will very likely go higher than Voila did, the song can be found at ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Ll1uR_HUOP8.html The song is not new, it was penned 20 years ago, before Emma was born, but it's never been performed until now, that said, the writer has written two other songs in recent years for Emma, LAAT MIJ EEN VLINDER ZIJN , let me be a butterfly ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jAsjpnpGY2M.html and Strijder ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rL0GLdnWEKk.html While Emma had significant stage experience, Voila was her first appearance with Andre, and the first ever performance of the new version of the song, Emma had learned it because the words so express her life experience, she was born with Gastroparesis, to keep her alive, she was put on tube feeding at 9 MONTHS, for 22 hours a day, so she's never had the experience of eating normally, she can only eat very small pieces of rice cracker, with slivers of other foods on them to let her experience the flavours, so effectively, she cannot share in any of the normal experience of meals shared with other family members, or close friends, and to make it worse, as the medical profession struggled to diagnose her, they didn't fully diagnose her till she was 10, during those intervening years, things like her gag reflex was damaged, so she can't vomit, which is a serious issue for her condition, as her stomach doesn't properly process and pass food through, and vomiting would be a regular issue for most sufferers of this disease. In addition, her growth was significantly delayed, even now, at 16, she's still only 1 Mtr 50, and weighs around 50 Kg, so still tiny, and as a result, her stamina is significantly reduced compared to most, she struggles to climb more than 2 flights of stairs, even longer walking such as through a large airport is a challenge, made worse by carrying 2 feeding pumps in a shoulder bag or similar for 22 hours a day, the equivalent of a boat anchor, but she absolutely refuses to allow her disease to define her, and is determined to live as normal a life as possible, but on a bad day, she does sometimes resort to using a wheelchair because of fatigue. Her first ever appearance in a show, during Covid, so no audience, was in 2020, she was 12 at the time, the concert was arranged by her brother, Enzo, and she sang a powerful version of 'Opportunity', ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-oMyqCs6zZP4.html I love the way she ends it with a spoken, 'I guarantee', and that beautiful smile that says she absolutely meant it, and at the same time knew she'd just nailed that performance, it happens a lot, that cute smile at the end of a significant performance, it was the same with Voila, she turned to Andre, arms wide, with a smile, no words, but it was clear what she meant, 'How was that?', and Andre's response said it all, one word, 'Fantastic', the embrace and bringing her back for more of the standing ovation, a wonderful moment. Her next major appearance was the Voice Kids contest in 2021, which she won, and the video of that progression shows so clearly that even then, she had incredible presence on a stage, and was very much able to shine as a performer, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-20gXikNRjbo.html A very different event, not a professional recording, but it is acceptably good, she performed with the Maastricht Star Male Voice choir, singing 'Hallelujah', ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-o3uskk3objU.html Earlier this year, in May, Emma was honoured to be asked to perform as part of the annual commemoration events in May of this year to remember the huge number of lives lost liberating the Netherlands from German occupation in WWII, she sang at several events across the country, the most prominent being a duet with April Darby, singing ' When you believe', ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-YG8WV1GFt_c.html This concert was in Amsterdam, in the presence of the Dutch Royal family, and a significant number of high ranking politicians, and she absolutely nailed the performance. For me, her strongest performance of this series was in the Hague, a Demi Levato cover of a technically challenging song, 'Father', and she absolutely excelled in this one, an incredible performance. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zXWBj7-edWU.html From the same concert, another cover, 'Hero', ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rohP0V3ECRY.html From the same series of concerts, 'You raise me up', ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-NIXB7TbeMvw.html A beautiful home video recorded several years ago during Covid, A Disney film cover, 'Part Of Your World' - ​@halle (The little mermaid) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-itxs-aNyRJY.html Another song that is special to Emma because of her health situation, a Miley Cyrus cover, 'The Climb', recorded for Tube feeding week. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-dOhzlDEuCBg.html When I Get There - @PinkVideoVault, unaccompanied, a song about the passing of a very close friend, given Emma's own situation, so incredibly deep and moving, just incredible. Translation of the note in Dutch, Last night my dear friend Angela became a star! I'm going to miss you incredibly much, but every time I look at the starry sky I know you're looking back ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0nIpN86mw6E.html A very recent upload, a karaoke session, from 2021, so she was just 13, she does a very creditable performance of a Michael Buble song, SWAY ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Dl3YYfUZHJo.html I hope this gives you a feel for where Emma has come from, and more importantly, where she's going, there is no doubt that as long as her health situation doesn't worsen, she will be making bigger and better waves for a long time to come, and it's more than clear that she is very happy and comfortable working with Andre and his orchestra at the moment, I am hoping that will continue beyond the end of the 2024 tour season, while it's also good that she can and does do other work outside of the significant demands of the world tour with Andre. I will close with my normal appeal to everyone reading or listening to this channel, and also apologise that my recent comments are more repetitive than usual, I'm struggling with typing as a result of an injury that has one wrist in a splint, but Emma deserves and needs as much support as possible, as her foundation works to help find better treatments, or even possibly a cure for this awful disease, her foundation is almost unique in terms of the work they are doing, there's been very little research into what is a devastating illness, the effects on the sufferers are huge, and her situation hasn't changed since that first appearance with Andre last July, she is still tied to her two external feeding pumps for 22 hours a day, and I know from recent social media posts, she finds the discipline, restrictions and limitations on her life more than hard to cope with at times, despite that she's loving the singing with Andre. Emma's foundation can be found at gastrostars.nl Please, if at all possible, join me in making a (regular) contribution to her foundation, to enable them to help patients like Emma, and research this awful disease that has affected her from birth, and requires her to be tied to the pumps and feeding tubes since she was 9 MONTHS old, for 22 hours a day, hopefully, the work of her foundation will find a cure. Please also be very careful if you post or respond to anything from Emma on social media, her increased visibility has resulted in significant numbers of bad actors creating fake accounts, and looking for money to fund 'special operations', or to get access to fan web sales or VIP event tickets on payment of a significant initial membership fee, they are ALL fake, the ONLY valid web site that supports Emma and others like her is the gastrostars site, and she NEVER makes private message appeals for donations or support, and NEVER sends private messages or similar asking you to make contact, or log on to an external site to claim the wonderful ticket you've won, they are all fake and fraudulent. One of the main people in Gastrostars is a surgeon who has a lot of experience in treating gastroparesis, and she is not only a surgeon, but also suffers from the same disease herself, to the extent that as a result of her condition worsening, she's had to leave her role in the hospital, and she is now dedicated to the foundation, and working to help find possible new treatments, or even better the cure that will free people like Emma to live a more normal life, rather than be tied to the feeding pumps for so many hours every day. It will be so good if the work of Emma's foundation can lead to a better treatment, or even a cure, which will free her to do more singing, and it may be people here who make that possible.

Hello Zero, wonderful reaction, do you already have "Voila" and "Dancing on the Stars", if that isn't the case. There are also covers in memory of the fallen of the Second World War: "You raise me up", "Father" and "Hero". There are recordings from this year and from last year. She has with Emma Kok & April Darby - When you believe. She also has two RU-vid pages: Emma Kok @EmmaKokOfficial. Emma Kok Spotlight @EmmaKokSpotlight Emma is an experience.