Jade Clevers, better known as “Yade Lauren” is a Dutch singer and songwriter. Born in Rosmalen in april 1999, Yade learned to play piano and guitar. Yade started uploading covers of songs from artists such as Beyonce, Ronnie Flex and Lil Kleine on YouTube in the first months of 2016. In particular the cover of the song “Bericht” by Lil Kleine & Frenna (Dutch rappers) gained a lot of attention. That year, she apperead on the song “Invitation” by the international famous Dutch Dj-group Yellow Claw and signed a record deal with their label “Barong Family”. She featured on multiple songs of the group, with “Love & War” being the most well-known song of these collaborations. She also appeard on songs of other members of the Barong Family such as “Lucky” by Chace and Moski. Yade started a career singing in Dutch as well, as she featured on the song “Langs Je Werk” by Dutch singer/rapper Jonna Fraser. This would mark the first of many collaborations between these two. 2017 saw Yade releasing her first solo single “Balcony” in English. A videoclip appeard on the YouTube chanel of the Barong label. Although she had been featured on a few songs over the next years (both Dutch and English songs), she didn’t release any solo material. The end of 2019 saw Yade having a hit in the Netherlands with her featuring on the Dutch song “Ze Kent Mij” from Snelle. Her first solo song in Dutch and her second solo song overall, was released in march 2020. The song was called “Papa”, and is a song about her attitude towards her father. It was released under the Dutch hiphop/urban label “Top Notch”. It was annouced that Yade would release her debut album in Dutch with the label later that year. A second single “Face Time” was released in april, before her album dropped on the 29th of may. Called “Reflecties”, the album contains of 10 songs, with featurings from upcoming rapper sor and long time collaborator Jonna Fraser. With videoclips released of “Face Time”, “Magisch” and “Papa”, (the last one having more than two million views on YouTube) and a collective 25.000.000+ Spotify streams on the album, we can state that this is only the beginning for Yade Lauren.

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After a small break Yade was featured on a few songs along the year; being “Mij Niet Eens Gezien” by Kriss Kross Amsterdam, alongside Lil Kleine and “Kalmeer” by Jonna Fraser; marking their 5th collaboration. Her first big hit in the Dutch charts was, as already mentioned, “Ze Kent Mij”, but that was nothing compared to the 7th august released “Als Ik Je Niet Zie” by Kevin, featuring Yade. The song served as third single from his album “Animal Stories” and is for both artist the biggest song so far in numbers on spotify (37.000.000+ streams). It featured an orginal and highly appericiated videoclip and was seen as an unique and very great collaboration. To continue her succes she released a deluxe version of her album which featured four new songs and “Als Ik Je Niet Zie”.

In 2021, after a break, she continued her streak with Kevin, by featuring on “Praat Met Mij” alongside Idaly and later that year featuring on Kevin’s “Samen”, both songs appearing on his third album. In between, Yade featured on the fourth album of one of the biggest artist in the Netherlands, Ronnie Flex, with the song “Goed Genoeg”. Yade had a show in Paradiso on 2-10-2021 which was her first solo show. Here, she previewed some new songs to be released soon. In the fall of 2021 the akoustic version of “Samen” began to gain traction and was also released on spotify; receiving a lot of postive reactions on Yade’s vocals. More is yet to come…

(Excuse my English, but I thought it would be better to do this bio in English. Although Yade is Dutch, she also has many international fans. Please, feel free to correct everything i have incorrect,)

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