eurovision 2016
Douwe Bob
Douwe Bob represented the Netherlands at Eurovision 2016 in Stockholm with “Slow Down”, finishing 11th of 26.
- who
- Dutch singer & songwriter
- born
- 12 December 1992, Amsterdam, Netherlands
- contest
- 2016
- best result
- 11th, 2016
- music
- country
- plays
- guitar
- active
- since 2012
- record labels
- Universal Music Group
- sang for
- Netherlands
Biography
Douwe Bob is a Dutch singer-songwriter who won the talent show De beste singer-songwriter van Nederland and specialises in folk and country. “Slow Down” finished eleventh for the Netherlands in Stockholm in 2016.
Written by ESC Predictions, 8 October 2026. Sources: Wikipedia, “Douwe Bob”.
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At Eurovision
One song, and what became of it.
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2016 Stockholm
“Slow Down”
11th of 26 Finished 11th of 26 in the final, with 153 points.
- Sung in
- English
- Written by
- Matthijs van Duijvenbode, Jan-Peter Hoekstra, Jeroen Overman, Douwe Bob Posthuma
- Running order
- 3rd of 26 in the final
- Semi-final
- 5th of 18, 197 points
- Age on the night
- 23
- Won that year
- Ukraine: Jamala, “1944”
The story of Eurovision 2016: A new way of counting, and a winner who topped neither vote
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