Ilse DeLange had to look for pleasure in music: ‘Is it good? Can I still do it?’ | show

Ilse DeLange’s laughter fills her cozy studio space in the Wisseloord Studios complex in Hilversum. She takes two steps towards the window in front of a table with ten pontifically displayed prizes, musical trophies from the Eurovision Song Contest, the Edisons and the Buma Awards. ‘They don’t usually look like that. That doesn’t fit with my Twente nature’, she says as she pushes an Edison back onto the windowsill. ‘A German film crew wanted them in the picture.’