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Katerine
Katerine
Background information
Birth name	Katerine Avgoustakis
Born	September 16, 1983
Origin	Limburg
Genre(s)	Pop, dance
Years active	2005–present
Label(s)	Universal
Website	Official website (Dutch)/(English)

Katerine Avgoustakis (September 16, 1983) is a singer and was the winner of the 2005 Star Academy show in Belgium, similar to American Idol in the United States.

Contents 1 Biography 2 Discography 2.1 Albums 2.2 Singles 3 External links

Avgoustakis was born on September 16, 1983, to a Greek father and a Belgian mother, who passed away in 2005, at 54 years old, after a long struggle with liver cancer.

Currently, she lives in Maasmechelen. Avgoustakis used to be a beauty specialist and before that a saleswoman. During the third quarter of 2005, it was announced that Avgoustakis had been dating Pim Symoens, who was #4 in Star Academy and who also works for JIMtv, a popular Flemish music channel.

Avgoustakis plays the piano and used to be in a choir. Also she was a member of her first band Indiana, with whom she participated with for Eurovision Song Contest a couple of years ago, with the song Imitation Love.

Due the failure of Indiana, she entered Star Academy in Flanders. In 2005, she worked her way to the finale and won the contest and a record contract. Avgoustakis's debut single New Day, released in July 2005 in Belgium, peaked at #2 in the Belgian UltraTop 50 chart. "New Day" was written and produced by Regi Penxten & Filip Vandueren, the team behind Milk Inc. Three months later, she received the TMF Flanders award for Best New National Artist for the song. Also the song was certified gold in Belgium. Her selfnamed debut album Katerine was released on November 14, 2005 in Belgium. The album is to be released in May in the Netherlands. Due the 'unexpected' sudden death of her mother, her second single, Here Come All the Boys, was delayed to be released in October 2005. This is the first single she also released in the Netherlands, that peaked at #89 in the Dutch Mega Singles Top 100. The song is also featured on the hits compilation HitBox, which was released on March 13, 2006, containing hits like Ricky Martin's I Don't Care, Rihanna's If It's Lovin' That You Want and the Michael Jackson cover Say Say Say (Waiting 4 U) by Hi_Tack.

Avgoustakis won the first Belgian pre-selection for Eurosong 2006 on January 8, 2006 with the song Watch Me Move. Because of this, she was sure to have a place in the pre-finale rounds, however the judges thought her voice wasn't powerful enough to win.

The third single from her album Katerine, Take Me Home, was released on April 4th 2006 in Belgium, with Watch Me Move as B-side.

Year	Album	Chart	Peak
2005	Katerine	Belgian UltraTop 50 Albums	#9
2005	Katerine	Belgian Top 20 Albums	#3

Katerine in Belgian UltraTop 50 Albums
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11
Chart position	37	10	9	11	17	22	26	27	21	30	46

Katerine in Belgian Artists Top 20 Albums
Week	01	02	03	04	05	06	07	08	09	10	11	12
Chart position	13	3	4	4	6	7	9	10	8	11	16	17

• Belgium has two official hit parades:

• The UltraTop 50 is a chart which featured both Belgian as International singles and albums.
• The Belgian Top 20 is a chart which featured albums and singles by only Belgian artists.

• The album peaked at #86 in the Belgium UltraTop 50 Albums Year End Chart and #27 in the Belgian Top 50 Albums Year End chart.

• All regularly Singles and their chart peak position: Belgium (BE), Netherlands (NED)

Year	Title	Album	Chart positions
			BEL	NET
2005	"New Day"	Katerine	2	-
2005	"Here Come All The Boys"	Katerine	5	89
2006	"Take Me Home/Watch Me Move"	Katerine	15
2006	"Catfight"	Katerine	32
		Top 10 hits	2	0

• Official website (Biograhpy, videoclips, song-samples and photos) (Dutch)/(English)

• Videoclip to Here Come All the Boys