Maarten Cox (born 30 March 1985) is a Belgian singer who was a contestant on Idool 2004, the second season of the Belgian version of Idols, the reality television-music competition series. His audition was in October 2004. He was eliminated on 14 November 2004 finishing sixth overall. After Idool, he released his album Terugblik (meaning Retrospective), a collection of new interpretations of Dutch oldies by various artists including Tom Van Stiphout, Eric Melaerts, Vincent Pierens, Miguel Wiels. "Malle Babbe", a cover of a Rob de Nijs and Boudewijn de Groot hit was his debut single.
Cox had started at an early age as part of a children's choir "De Piccolo's". He studied music theory and later piano, vocals and playing the saxophone. After playing in Tovenaar van Oz, a Dutch version of Wizard of Oz, he formed a duo with pianist Toon Meuris called Perplex. Adding Peter Thys as drummer, he continued performing as a trio.
Starting December 2011, he joined TV Limburg as host and presenter of Studio TVL alongside Cynthia en Rudi.[1]
He returned in 2012 with a string of charting singles in the Flemish Ultratop Top 50, the Belgian singles chart.
Discography
editAlbums
edit| Year | Album | Peak positions |
|---|---|---|
| Flemish Ultratop Album Top 200[2] | ||
| 2006 | Terugblik | 32 |
| 2017 | Op weg | 82 |
Singles
edit| Year | Album | Peak positions | Album | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ultratop 50 [3] |
Ultratip [4] | |||
| 2005 | "Malle Babbe" | 30 | – | Terugblik |
| 2012 | "Wat doe je dan?" | 45 | – | |
| "Leve de winter" | – | 3 | ||
| 2013 | "Onweerstaanbaar" | – | 5 | |
| 2014 | "Vrij" | – | 5 | |
| "Leuker met twee" | 38 | – | ||
| 2016 | "Als ze me kust" | 48 | – | |
| 2017 | "Ga door" | – | 33 | |