The ‘Shooting Stars Benefit‘ is a benefit week to support the Samuel L Jackson Foundation and the Red Cross. The event starts this tuesday (september 14th) and will close friday (september 17th) with a benefit gala. And Esmée is the performer for the evening. She will perform two songs, and it’s most likely acousticly since she is brining her guitare player Antony to the event.

The Shooting Stars Benefit Closing Gala, hosted by Samuel L Jackson and Scarlett Johansson, will begin with a champagne reception whilst being entertained by a string quartet. Guests will be ushered to a live gala performance by an international Artiste.

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Let’s hope we can add a bunch of new photos of Esmée during the event and her performance.

So, I teased you guys a bit with a little update via our twitter and the website on the new projects I’ve been working in right? Now I’m really proud to announce that one of the projects is so far done, that I decided to put it online: the dutch part of Esmée Denters Fans is ready for it’s grand opening. You may know, if you are a visitor from the start, that we started with a dutch/english fansite but when I changed host I decided to do only english. But I did notice a lot of the fans are dutch, and some of them are having a hart time following all the news in english.

I finally had the time to actually do it, make a dutch part for the fansite and I’m really glad my lovely host Fanfusion.org gave us a brandnew domain name. So from now on you can reach our english part via esmeefans.org, as always, and our dutch part via esmeedenters.org. You can also follow our dutch twitter account @esmeefansNL and if you haven’t followed our english twitter be sure you do @esmeefans.

A lot of information in one update right? Nothing really changes for most of you guys but I wanted to change the fact that Esmée didn’t have an up-to-date dutch fansite. I will keep you updated via this site, as always but I will also translate it for the dutch fans. Still working on translating all the content into dutch but the most important thing is getting it online. I’m currently still working on other new projects, so be sure to stay tuned. My goal is improving the site by giving it more and better content.

I’m so proud of Esmée right now because she got nominated for an Edison. You may not know this award, but it’s pretty big in Holland: it’s like the Grammy’s of the Netherlands and Esmée got a nomination alongside one of the greatest dutch artist. She got nominated for the ‘Veronica publieksprijs beste song‘ (The price decided by voters) wich means we can vote for Esmée. They nominated her debut hit single ‘Outta Here‘, wich peaked at #3 in the dutch charts and number #7 of the UK charts. If you are not dutch you can still vote, but be sure to read and follow the intruction below.

1. Go to the voting page of the Edisons 2010.
2. Select a random album below ‘Publieksprijs beste album’
3. Select Esmée ‘Outta Here‘ below ‘Veronica publieksprijs beste song’. Just tick the box next to Esmée’s cover art. You may have to scroll a bit.

Note: The album can be different when you visit the voting page, the order randomly changes.

4. Scroll down until the white box with ‘E-mail*’ above it and fill in your own e-mail.
5. Go to your mail box of the e-mail you filled in and open the one from info@ediso​ns.nl with ‘Bevestig uw stem op [Random Album you selected] en Outta here (single)‘ as subject and click the link to confirm your vote.
6. Be sure to vote, and follow the same steps as above, with all your e-mail addresses: your work, school, personal, website, fansite etc. e-mails. And ask you parents, sister, brother, relatives, (new) classmates and friends to vote too.

Some really exciting news today: a brand new video has been released online of Esmée performing the song ‘Gravity‘. It looks like a music video for the song. ‘Gravity‘ was suppose to be the first official single of her debut album ‘Outta Here‘ but Esmée recorded the single ‘Outta Here‘ last minute and they changed the debut single. ‘Gravity‘ didn’t make it yet as official music video. When you watch earlier blogs of Esmée before you may have noticed that they have release some short footage of this video but it’s really nice to see the full video!

Esmée looks really stunning! The video is at the same time a nice behind the scenes look of Esmée on the photoshoot for her debut album artwork. The photographer is Jason O’Dell and you can watch the full photoshoot set in our gallery. I really hope more outtakes will be released of this shoot since they only released a few and by the looks of the video they will have a lot more!

Update: Esmée just tweeted: ‘Guys obviously the gravity behind the scene video is not a official music video.. its just a fun video to watch’. So it’s not a music video, just a behind the scenes look of her artwork photoshoot.