Birthname: Katinka Hartkamp

Birthplace: Rotterdam

Katinka Hartkamp (Epe, June 3 1970) acts nowadays under the name Esther Hart. When she was fourteen years old she sang for the first time at a band and the love for music left its no longer separately.

After the academy she followed a song training and with her 'soulful' voice, a smooth and clear mezzo-soprano, she ensures since then a nice headstock sound. And that starts, witnessing English hitsuccesses also its with Ain't no groin that on number consider of dance-charts ended up. Also she sang a number on the soundtrack of the American film Faking da funk and they several cd's in own management has incorporated.

She has been for years a passionate follower of the Eurovision Song Contest and when she was selected for both the British and Dutch finals for the 2003 contest her dream came true. Because of her success in the Dutch finals she withdrew from the UK finals. She represented the Netherlands and finished 13th. After the contest, she released her first album.