Maarten Cox, Date of Birth

Maarten Cox

Date of Birth: 30-Mar-1985

Profession: singer

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Aries

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. He returned in 2012 with a string of charting singles in the Flemish Ultratop Top 50, the Belgian singles chart.