Joost Klein

According to one analysis, Joost Klein is an ENFP on the MBTI. This type is characterized as practical, social, able to get what they want and find good deals.

It is also believed that Joost Klein corresponds to the SP7 type of the Enneagram. It is typical for this type to often talk about work, money, wealth and other practical matters. Joost Klein is a Dutch singer, musician, writer who has become popular among European teenagers and young people. He began his path to fame by posting short sketches from his life on YouTube. Later, he focused on musical self-expression and developed his own energetic performance style, combining elements of hip-hop, rap, gabber and pop-punk, and loves football. Childhood and youth Joost Klein was born on November 10, 1997, in the village of Britsum, located in the Dutch province of Friesland. He attended the city gymnasium of the Leeuwarden municipality, but was unable to complete his studies. The childhood years of the future celebrity's biography were overshadowed by terrible grief: at the age of 12, he lost his father, who died of cancer, and a year later his mother, who died unexpectedly of cardiac arrest. His older brother and sister took care of the teenager. According to information from the website bolshoyvopros.ru, he is 180 cm tall, weighs 78 kg, and has blue eyes. The artist's hair color was also discussed on the Internet: some users noted that it is naturally light, but not that white, and the musician dyes it.

Jost Klein at the Eurovision Song Contest 2024 - Europapa Song The video ends with a childhood photo of the singer and his parents being burned in a house fire. For Klein, these images represent the psychotherapy sessions he has gone through, when the patient has to symbolically burn away the past to make room for the future. Joost Klein, the Netherlands' representative at Eurovision 2024, was disqualified from the final by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) following an incident with a member of the contest's film crew. After the second semi-final, Jost was involved in an incident with one of the members of the organizing team. He reportedly became aggressive after being filmed without consent. Swedish police launched an investigation - and until the investigation is completed, the EBU decided to disqualify him from participating in the final. The EBU statement said there was no physical violence, but the participant's behavior violated the rules of the competition. Jost himself and his team did not comment on the situation in detail, but later his producer and representatives said that the artist was defending his boundaries and had a right to personal space, and in fact he hit the camera and after he was thrown out he was ashamed and cried for 8 hours without water and food.

Inspired by the appearance of his first audience, the young creator spent a year delivering newspapers to neighbors' houses in order to buy a new DSLR camera and tried to regularly publish interesting content on his account. However, despite the fact that the channel was gaining popularity and in 2015 had 50 thousand subscribers, the young man's interest gradually shifted towards a musical career. In 2016, his debut mini-album Dakloos was released, and the video for the song Bitches gained millions of views.

In the following two years, the albums Scandinavian Boy and M van Marketing, co-written with rapper Donald Ellerström, better known as Donnie, were released. Klein showed a new side of his talent by releasing a collection of his own poems, Albino, in memory of his father, in the fall of 2018. The musician’s own label released an album of the same name, in support of which performances at several concert venues were organized in the winter of 2019.

The new album recording, released at the end of the same year, was called "1983", which became a reference to the year of birth of the musician's older brother, who was his manager. 2020 was marked by the release of the album Joost Klein 7, and in September 2022, the Friesland native added to his discography the album Fryslân, named after his small homeland. The young singer-songwriter has received awards for his contribution to music culture, and the popularity of his tracks has spread beyond the country's borders. For example, the composition Friesenjung became a No. 1 hit in Germany and Austria in 2023, and also hit the charts in Switzerland.

has often addressed this in songs, drawing inspiration from the pain of loss. During a concert performance of the song "Florida-2009", which begins with the words "Here you are at your father's cremation...", Klein usually has difficulty holding back tears.

The creative career of Jost Klein As a child, Joost loved watching videos on YouTube and, imitating the bloggers he considered cool, at the age of 10 he picked up an old camera he found in the attic. Although his first videos were not very good, the boy started his own channel on the popular video hosting site and since 2008 has been posting sketches and short documentaries under the nickname EenhoornJoost.

Inspired by the appearance of his first audience, the young creator spent a year delivering newspapers to neighbors' houses in order to buy a new DSLR camera and tried to regularly publish interesting content on his account. However, despite the fact that the channel was gaining popularity and in 2015 had 50 thousand subscribers, the young man's interest gradually shifted towards a musical career. In 2016, his debut mini-album Dakloos was released, and the video for the song Bitches gained millions of views.