Mirusia Louwerse Biography, Career, Albums and Songs

Mirusia Louwerse Biography

Mirusia Louwerse is an Australian soprano born on 29th March 1985. She performs as Mirusia and is seen as “The Unconventional Pop Star”and “The Angel of Australia”. In December 2006, Mirusia graduated from the Queensland Conservatorium in Brisbane obtaining a Bachelor of Music in Performance in Classical Voice. In 2006, Louwerse became the youngest ever winner of the Dame Joan Sutherland Opera Award and went on to record a debut EP entitled She Walks in Beauty.

Mirusia Louwerse Career

Mirusia’s aunt, who lives in the Netherlands, contacted André Rieu to tell him about her niece’s talent. He listened to her voice on her website and phoned her straight away and two days later she was standing before him in his studio ready to sing.
Since 2007 she has been touring with the Dutch violinist and conductor André Rieu as his star soprano. She is of Dutch descent and can speak Dutch fluently. André Rieu and Louwerse released an album entitled Waltzing Matilda in Australia in May 2008. It went to #1 on the Pop Charts and stayed there for many weeks and became the 20th best selling album in Australia in 2008.

In 2009 she appeared on most of Rieu’s DVDs and CDs, including I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg . She sings the title song, “I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg|Ich hab’ mein Herz in Heidelberg verloren”, as well as “Zwei kleine Italiener”, “In mir klingt ein Lied” and (with Carla Maffioletti and the Berlin Comedian Harmonists) “Adieu, mein kleiner Gardeoffizier”.

Her solo album Always & Forever was released in Australia on 8 October 2010 and went straight to No. 17 on the ARIA pop charts. It was released in The Netherlands in December 2010. Her DVD Always & Forever was released in March 2011 and stayed at the No. 1 position on the ARIA DVD charts for four weeks. In 2012 Louwerse won the ARIA #1 Chart Award for Always & Forever and was the only classical artist to receive such an award.

Louwerse performed with André Rieu in 2013, at the coronation concert of the king of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander. She performed in the same year, under the baton of John Curro with the Queensland Youth Symphony Britten’s War Requiem in the Queensland Performing Arts Centre to celebrate Benjamin Britten’s 100th birthday. 2013 also saw Louwerse embark on her first full scale national tour of The Netherlands on her “My Second Home Tour”, which was also filmed for DVD and released as “Beautiful That Way” on DVD and CD. In 2014, Louwerse toured with her solo tour “My Favorite Things” to sold out audiences across The Netherlands and Australia.

Mirusia Louwerse  Wedding Photo

She released her latest CD and DVD, This Time Tomorrow, in May 2016. The CD is a studio recording and the DVD was filmed live in The Netherlands. Both the CD and DVD charted in the Top 10 on the Dutch and Australian charts, with the CD’s highest position at No. 1 on the ARIA Classical Crossover charts and the DVD at No. 4 on the ARIA Music DVD chart. Mirusia toured internationally in 2016 and the beginning of 2017 with her concert tour “This Time Tomorrow” with 40 concerts. In 2018, Mirusia is continuing touring internationally with her new concert tour “From the Heart” which began in The Netherlands in March 2017. Her new tour program, “An Enchanted Evening”, is due to begin in September 2018 in The Netherlands.

Mirusia Louwerse Net Worth

Mirusia Louwerse’s net worth is estimated to be in the range of approximately $523416301 in 2018, according to the users of vipfaq.

Mirusia Louwerse Husband – Mirusia Louwerse Wedding

Mirusia Louwerse married her long term boyfriend Youri Wystyrk in July 2015 . The wedding was a much celebrated affair with André Rieu writing a special piece of music and filming a video clip of the pair before their wedding. In December 2017, Mirusia gave birth to the couple’s first child, Sascha.

Mirusia Louwerse Parents

Mirusia Louwerse was born on March 29, 1985 to two Dutch parents in Brisbane, Australia. Her mom is originally from Brabant and her dad from Zeeland. Mirusia’s parents, a boiler-maker and a nurse, moved from The Netherlands in their twenties after being granted a permanent residency visa to Australia.

Mirusia Louwerse Albums

  1. Arrivederci Roma
  2. From the Heart
  3. Home – Limited Edition
  4. Always & Forever
  5. Magic of the Waltz
  6. My Favourate Things
  7. This Time Tomorrow
  8. She Walks in Beauty
  9. Home
  10. Waltzing Matilda
  11. Beautiful That Way (Live in Holland)
  12. Love in Venice
  13. André Rieu at Schönbrunn, Vienna

Mirusia Louwerse Photo

Mirusia Louwerse Songs

  1. Wishing you were somehow here again
  2. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
  3. Don’t Cry for Me Argentina
  4. Beautiful That Way
  5. Solveig’s Song
  6. Forever Shine
  7. This Time Tomorrow
  8. Porgi Amor
  9. Solveig’s Lied
  10. O Mio Babbino Caro
  11. Kissing You
  12. Romanza
  13. She Walks in Beauty
  14. Pie Jasu
  15. Concerto Pour Une Voix
  16. Life is Like a Boat
  17. Love Changes Everything
  18. Geef Miji Je Angst
  19. In Mir Klingt Ein Lied
  20. Look for me in Rainbows
  21. Zwei Kleine Italiener
  22. Dancing Through the Skies
  23. Colour of the Wind
  24. Feed the Birds
  25. Who Want to Live Forever
  26. All i Ask of You
  27. Beautiful that way – Mirusia
  28. Love s a gift
  29. Ave Maria
  30. He was beautiful
  31. If
  32. Home

Mirusia Louwerse Video

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