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Natascha Bessez is an American singer and beauty pageant titleholder. She competed in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2014 and on The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart in 2020.

Early life

Bessez has a Chilean mother and a father of French descent.

Career

Pageantry

Bessez was named Miss New York Teen USA 2005.

Music career

In 2007, Bessez was chosen to compete in the reality music competition on CW 11's Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. After making it to the top 18, she then competed in the group audition round, where she performed, "I Don't Need a Man" by The Pussycat Dolls along with Anjelia, Chelsea, Jasmin, Anastacia, and Robyn, but was eliminated.

In 2014, Bessez competed in the Eurovision Song Contest Prelim's, Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2014 with the song "Wanna Be Loved" along with Danish saxophonist Michael Rune. In the final held on 8 March 2014 in Odense, the duo performed tenth and made it into the superfinal after placing in the top three. In the superfinal, they received 7 points from the jury and 8 from the public vote, ending them up in a dual second place with Rebekka Thornbech and her song "Your Lies", behind the winner Basim and his song "Cliche Love Song". "Wanna Be Loved" represented Denmark in the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2014, a contest where each country's OGAE fanclub selects a song to represent them that didn't win their country's national selection. It placed fifth out of twenty competing songs.

In 2018, she auditioned for The Voice of Holland, performing “Finesse” by Bruno Mars and Cardi B.

In 2020, she competed on The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart and was eliminated in week five of the competition.

Personal life

In 2018, after meeting a Dutchman while living in New York City, she moved together with him to the town of Vlaardingen.

Filmography

References

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2. "Natascha Bessez". San Francisco Pride. 2018-06-21. Archived from the original on June 10, 2018. Retrieved 2019-01-21.
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4. ^ ten Veen, Byrenske (November 13, 2018). "'She came to torture us' — Anouk crushes DMGP 2014 runner-up Natascha Bessez during The Voice of Holland audition". Wiwibloggs. Archived from the original on May 12, 2020. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
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7. Storvik-Green, Simon (8 March 2014). "It's Basim for Denmark to Copenhagen!". Eurovision.tv. Retrieved March 8, 2014.
8. Christensen, Mette (22 April 2014). ""Wanna Be loved" til Second Chance Contest 2014". good-evening-europe.com (in Danish). Retrieved 14 May 2014.
9. "The results of the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2014!". sechuk.com. October 19, 2014. Retrieved October 19, 2014.
10. Reiher, Andrea (March 9, 2020). "'The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart' Spoilers So Far". Heavy.
11. Barthwell, Ali (May 12, 2020). "The Bachelor: Listen to Your Heart Recap: New Rules". Vulture.

External links

Natascha Bessez at IMDb

• Living people
• 1986 births
• Musicians from Manhattan
• American women pop singers
• American beauty pageant winners
• 2005 beauty pageant contestants
• 21st-century Miss Teen USA delegates
• American people of Chilean descent
• American people of French descent
• 21st-century American women singers
• 21st-century American singers
• Bachelor Nation contestants