Ivana Raymonda van der Veen is a Dutch singer-songwriter with over 280,000 Subscribers on YouTube. She produced her first music video at the age of 14 and has been going ever since. To date, Ivana has released over 250 original songs, 100 cover songs, 20 CDs, 19 LPs, 1 DVD and 16 Blu-rays.
In 2010 she made her radio debut, in 2011 gave her first big live performance at Paradiso in Amsterdam, and further made her first appearance on TV. In 2012 Ivana performed at her first concert abroad in London, and in 2013 sang in her first movie, before taking first place in a competition on ArtistSignal, winning a $10,000 grand prize, and receiving her first printed review in Washington D.C. In 2016 she reached #1 on Ecuador’s iTunes Pop chart with “You Don’t Own Me”, and as of 2024 has racked up 65,000,000+ total views on YouTube.
Throughout this time, she’s maintained her own website at www.ivanavanderveen.com as well as an online shop at store.ivanavanderveen.com and numerous social media pages enabling her to keep in touch with fans around the globe. As ever, she hopes her songs will brighten everyone’s day.
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Biography: Ivana Raymonda
Ivana Raymonda van der Veen is a singer-songwriter with over 280,000 Subscribers on YouTube. She was born in Amersfoort on May 2, 1992. Until May 2013 she lived in the Netherlands then she moved to Bad Bentheim, Germany. Since October 2015 she has resided in Hardenberg, Overijssel back at home in the country of her birth.
Ivana has always had a passion for singing and dancing. She trained in classical and jazz ballet and obtained a Gold Star diploma in both ballroom and Latin dancing.
Ivana made her first music video when she was just 14. Ivana produces, records, and edits her entire video and audio catalogue. Her meticulous work produces video and audio quality at a professional level. In addition, she has developed a very successful website, www.ivanavanderveen.com and continues to maintain it on her own.
To date, Ivana has released over 250 original songs, at least 40 of which have been completely self-written and produced, the rest being the work of composers from around the world with whom she regularly co-writes. Such originals now fill no less than 20 released CDs: Dreams (2014), Timeless (2015), Reality (2016), Different (2017), Emotional Moments (2018), For You (2019), Diversified (2020), Feelings (2021), In The Flow (2022), Passion (2022), Romance (2022), Desires (2022), Christmas With You (2022), Sentiment (2023), Duality (2023), Happy (2023), Changes (2024), Nostalgia (2024), Defiant (2024), Sweet Love (2024) along with 19 vinyl LPs, 1 DVD and 16 Blu-rays featuring the music videos. She’s further released more than 100 cover songs.
On October 10, 2010, Ivana made her radio debut. Following that successful debut, many other radio stations from all over the world began playing her music on the air waves.
On March 22, 2011, Ivana had her first big live performance. She was invited to sing in Paradiso Amsterdam, NL. On that day Ivana became certain that performing is what she wants to do.
Ivana appeared for the first time on television in November 2011. The show was broadcast in Israel. They featured nine of her videos, which was a very great compliment to her work.
In December 2012 Ivana had her first concert abroad. She performed in London, England.
In 2013 Ivana won First place three times in the World, Original and Covers music video chart on BEAT100.
In August 2013 Ivana was selected by Darkstone Entertainment to sing “Little Miss Understood” for their Sci-Fi/Horror movie “Plan 9”. After being signed with Spotlight Pictures and presented at the Cannes Film Market and other venues, ”Plan 9” was released in Australia on DVD in late 2015. By February 2016 it was available America-wide through Walmart‘s VOD (Video On Demand) service and local cable companies.
In August 2014, Ivana took first place in a competition on ArtistSignal winning a $10,000 grand prize. She later became the highest voted artist in Artist Signal’s lifetime chart.
In December 2014 she received her first printed review in the Washington City Paper about her music video “Happy White Christmas“. The video received over 100,000 YouTube views in the first month.
Ivana’s music video of “Lonely this Christmas” was played on “The Phil Mack International Country Show” in Europe during Christmas week 2014. It was broadcast on Irish TV Sky channel 191 & Freesat 400.
On February 22nd, 2016, Ivana Raymonda van der Veen reached #1 position on the iTunes Pop chart with “You Don’t Own Me” in Ecuador.
In August 2020, Ivana became a professional painter, selling 80 different landscapes, portraits, abstracts and commissioned works world-wide in her first year.
On January 21st, 2022, Ivana reached 200,000 Subscribers on her YouTube channel. As of 2024, she has accumulated more than 65,000,000 views in total, and that number continues to rise.
Ivana works tirelessly to make her dream become a reality, maintaining her own web site at www.ivanavanderveen.com, an online shop at store.ivanavanderveen.com and numerous social media pages enabling her to keep in touch with all those fans who watch her videos and listen to her songs.
Quote:
Be who you are! Don’t stop dreaming! Do what you believe in!
Never give up! ♥
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YouTube: https://youtube.com/ivanavanderveen (280,000 Subscribers)
Twitter: https://twitter.com/ivanavanderveen (44,000 Followers)
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ivanavanderveen (10,000 Followers)
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ivanavanderveen (11.000 Followers)
Store: http://store.ivanavanderveen.com
Support Site: http://support.ivanavanderveen.com
Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/ivana
Biography text written by David W. Williams