Urban Trad

Urban Trad is a Belgian folk music group, consisting of both Dutch and French speaking people.

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Musicians: Yves Barbieux (flutes and Galician bagpipe), Veronica Codesal (vocals), Soetkin Collier (vocals), Didier Laloy (diatonic accordion), Philip Masure (acoustic guitar), Michel Morvan (drums), Dirk Naessens (violin), Marie-Sophie Talbot (vocals, piano & percussions) and Cédric Waterschoot (bass).

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Urban Trad participated in the Eurovision Song Contest 2003, where they ended second with the song Sanomi, a modern folk song with vocals in an imaginary language. A few months before the contest, it was decided that singer Soetkin Collier could not participate, apparently because she had extreme right sympathies in the past. Later that year, after an investigation, it was concluded that these accusations by the national security, were exaggerated and based on outdated information.

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