Laura Tesoro is a Belgian singer and actress from the Flemish region of the country. She is best known for her role in the Belgian soap opera Family and was the runner-up in the 2014 season of The Voice of Flanders, as well as voicing the characters of Moana and Poppy in the Flemish dubs of the animated films Moana and Trolls respectively.
She represented Belgium at the Eurovision Song Contest 2016 in Stockholm with the song What's The Pressure, finishing in 10th place in the final and giving the Flemish broadcaster VRT its best finish since 2010.
In October 2019, she released her debut album, Limits.
She was one of the five jurors for Belgium in the 2018 contest in Lisbon. She is currently a coach on The Voice Kids Vlaanderen, and was one of the jury members for Eurosong 2023 that helped choose Gustaph as the 2023 Belgian representative.
Trivia[]
- She is one of three Eurovision representatives to have voiced the title character in a foreign-language dub of Moana, the others being Marina Satti and Zena in the Greek and Russian dubs respectively.
- She is also one of three Eurovision representatives to have voiced Poppy in a foreign-language dub of Trolls, the others being Louane and Lena Meyer-Landrut in the European French and German dubs respectively.
- She is the only Eurovision representative to voice Gwen Stacy/Spider-Woman in Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse.
- Laura was joined by 2019 Eurovision winner Duncan Laurence on the coaching team of The Voice Kids Vlaanderen in 2022.