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Raffaëla Paton
Raffaëla on the cover of her debut single Right Here, Right Now.
Background information
Origin	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Years active	2006—present
Website	Idol Raffaëla Template:Nl icon Raffaëla music Template:Nl icon

Raffaëla Paton (Amsterdam, June 1 1983) is a Dutch singer, winner of the 2006 Dutch talentshow Idols.

Biography

Raffaëla moved to Assen when she was a little girl. Her mother was an famous singer in Suriname. Raffaëla's aunt is Ruth Jacott, also a famous Dutch singer who represented the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest of 1993. Before she participated in Idols, she worked as a hostess in a restaurant in Emmen.

Raffaëla amazed many by admitting her love to Henkjan Smits, one of the judges in Idols, what turned out to be a joke later on. On January 31, 2006, Raffaëla reported to be pregnant. The father of the baby is her current boyfriend; Paul van der Vlugt, also from Emmen, whom she was seeing for four months at the time. Raffaëla and Paul expect the baby to be born in August.

March 11 was a big day for Raffaëla; The grand finale of "Idol 2006". Raffaëla won Idols with 58% of the total votes, beating favourite Floortje. After the show, RTL 4, the broadcaster of Idols, reported that Floortje was winning the contest, until Raffaëla sung "Right Here, Right Now (My Heart Belongs to You)", which was going to be the debut single of the winner of Idols. The song is a cover of Agnes Carlsson, the Swedish Pop Idol.

On April 21, 2006, Raffaëlla's debut album Raffaëla was released. The album contains 12 songs she sung during her Idols career and two new songs about pregnancy. The album debuted at #1 in the Dutch Album Top 100.

Sung on Idols III

• Audition: India.Arie - Beautiful Surprise
• Theater (trio rounds): Patti LaBelle - Lady Marmalade (trio)
• Theater (duo rounds): Eternal & Bebe Winans - I Wanna Be
• Theater (solo rounds): Alicia Keys – If I Ain't Got You
• Workshops: The Trammps - Disco Inferno
• 1st Liveshow: Lionel Richie - All Night Long (All Night)
• 2nd Liveshow: Ilse DeLange - I'm Not So Tough
• 3rd Liveshow: Mary Wells - My Guy
• 4th Liveshow: Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
• 5th Liveshow: Blu Cantrell - Hit 'em Up Style
• 6th Liveshow: L.T.D. - Back in Love Again
• 7th Liveshow:

1. Roger Glover & Guests - Love is all
2. Mariah Carey - Dreamlover

• 8th Liveshow:

1. Trijntje Oosterhuis & Marco Borsato - Wereld Zonder Jou
2. De Dijk - Ik Kan Het Niet Alleen

• 9th Liveshow:

1. En Vogue - My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)
2. Nat King Cole - Straighten up and Fly Right

• 10th Liveshow:

1. Aretha Franklin - Think (Freedom)
2. De Poema's - Mijn Houten Hart
3. The Pussycat Dolls - Don't Cha

• Finale:

1. Aretha Franklin & Eurythmics - Sisters Are Doin' It for Themselves (duet with Floortje)
2. The Trammps - Disco Inferno
3. Elvis Presley - Don't Be Cruel
4. Raffaëla Paton - Right Here, Right Now (My Heart Belongs to You)

Discography

Albums

Singles

• NVPI, the dutch certificator, certified the song gold three days after the finale of Idols, which is a record in the history of the Netherlands, because never ever has a song been certified gold after three days. In the Netherlands this means the song/single has been downloaded/bought over 40,000 times. Raffaëla was given the price while she was on a popular talkshow called Jensen!, by Eric van Tijn, one of the judges during Idols.

A week after the final, Sony reported that the single had sold over 80,000 copies, certifyïng the single platinum after a week, another record Raffaëla has achieved in the Netherlands.

External links

• Official website.
• Another Official website.
• Raffaëla Fanclub.

• Female singers
• Dutch singers
• Idol series winners
• Idol series contestants
• R&B musicians