After Dani was crowned the big winner of The voice of Holland, he was immediately put in a limousine to report on the evening at the table of Beau van Erven Dorens. When the talk show host asks him about the highlights, the brand new winner does not have to think long. His duet with the combative Hanin is head and shoulders above the rest for him.
Also during the nerve-racking final, the two were back on stage together and that is a special fact, because according to Voicepresenter Martijn Krabbé, the girl could be deported from the country at any time. “There is a lot going on now that they cannot stay. I thought I would never see her again, and now she was just in the final tonight.”
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Hanin and her family are currently staying in an asylum seekers’ center in Ter Apel, but Dani says that their residence permit has recently been denied. According to the young singer, there is still hope for Hanin: “She has received a negative answer, so she has not received her residence permit. But you can apply for it several times, then you will appeal.”
What makes the situation so difficult is that the Syrian singer and the rest of her family came to the Netherlands via Venezuela. “She must now prove that she does not have a residence permit from Venezuela, but there is a civil war in Venezuela.”
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Hanin was only 9 years old when war broke out in Syria and the family decided to flee to Venezuela, where their cousin lived. “We had to protect our children,” Hanin’s mother told RTL News earlier. That worked reasonably well in the beginning, but then the country collapsed. In that chaos, the health of Hanin’s brother Omar was endangered. Because of his heart problems, the family wanted to return to Syria, but the war was still raging there. “For us it was the only solution. In Syria we knew the language, the road, the hospitals,” said Hanin.
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But Syria had changed, and no longer the way it once was. “IS was 8 kilometers away. That was scary. We didn’t see them, but we knew they were there. It also makes me angry. Who are those people?
You read the entire interview with Hanin and her family here.
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