Buddy Vedder’s Stunning Performance in Secret Duets: Surprising the Panel with His Vocal Range

Singing, dancing and acting: Buddy Vedder can do it all. He proves that again with his participation in Secret Duets. He sings the song ‘Alles Is Liefde’ together with comedian Richard Groenendijk. In the first round we briefly hear his voice and it sounds heavier than we are used to from Buddy: “He has something opera-like”, says Richard. The other panel members – Esmée van Kampen, Samantha Steenwijk and Berget Lewis – need to hear a little more from this Secret Singer to determine whether this is a professional singer.

What the panelists don’t know is that Buddy deliberately puts on a heavier voice to mislead the panelists. After presenter Jamai Loman hears the panelists’ initial thoughts, they move on to the next round and the song resumes. And then everyone is completely bewildered: the mysterious celebrity suddenly sings with a completely different voice: “How mean this,” says Esmée. You can read the surprise on Richard’s face. He has absolutely no idea with whom he is singing a duet: “This is just very different. How is this possible, are there two?”

Just before the wall goes up, Richard is allowed one more attempt to discover the identity of his duet partner. The comedian is visibly frustrated when he learns that he knows him personally: “I’m fine with this program.” In the end, Richard gives his final answer and ends up with Klaas van der Eerden. When the wall goes up he sees Buddy standing and all the puzzle pieces fall into place: “I didn’t hear. Sorry, I’m sorry.”

Then Buddy has some explaining to do, because where did all those different voices come from? “I wanted to make it a bit difficult for them, vary with my voice.” And that worked out quite well, because at the end of the performance only Samantha knows how to guess his identity.

Secret Duets can be seen every Thursday at 8.30 p.m. on RTL 4.