
Photo: Linda Wagenmakers · CC BY-SA 4.0 · credits
Linda Wagenmakers
Person · female · Kingdom of the Netherlands · Arnhem · born 1975 · recording since 2015
Dutch singer
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Also known as Linda · Linda Wagemakers · 琳達·瓦格梅納斯
Timeline
1970s
2010s
· Debut release
Debut release: Laat me vrij om te gaan
First documented EP in the MusicBrainz discography.
source: musicbrainz
Biography
Biography
Linda Wagenmakers (born 30 November 1975, Arnhem) is a Dutch singer and actress of Indonesian blood.
Wagenmakers started her career at 21 years old while playing Kim in the Amsterdam edition of the musical Miss Saigon. She played in the RTL4 drama series Westenwind, for which she also recorded the song "Laat me vrij om te gaan
Laat me vrij om te gaanSpotifyYouTube Music (search)Tracklist · 4 tracks1Laat me vrij om te gaan3:512Laat me vrij om te gaan (instrumental)3:523No Goodbyes (radio edit)3:084No Goodbyes (Special radio dance remix)2:44". Wagenmakers voiced the Dutch version of Mulan in the 1999 Disney animated film. Also in part of many television series and events. She was in part of the original casting of Rocky over the rainbow playing Maggs and in later versions as Dorothy. She was also in part of Musicals in Ahoy in 2001 along singing the role of Kim from Miss Saigon as well as Eponine from Les Miserables.
She also represented her country in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 in Stockholm, with the song "No Goodbyes" involving a huge, bicoloured (black and white) dress designed by Jan Aarntzen. She featured in a gospel national theater tour in The Spirit of Joy!. She also played the lead role in the Dolly Dots' musical Love Me Just A Little Bit More as Lisa, an awkward high school girl with a great voice caught in the teen drama. She released a gospel album titled Full Circle. She played as Sis in the musical Shhh...It Happens. She played Alex in The Witches of Eastwick working along with April Darby and Joke de Kruijf. She played as the witch Caramella at the national tour of Hansel and Gretel for Van Hoorne productions and as the Lady of the Lake in the Monty Python musical Spamalot. She returned to the stage as Anastasia in the faux comedy Fifty Shades: The Parody for Senf productions. She also was the voice of Tiana, the first Black American Disney Princess for the 2009 animated film The Princess and the Frog. Along with her work on stage she started to devote time on coaching other artists vocally and mentally for Vocal Center, and finished the competition in thirteenth place after the voting.
Dubbing
Mulan - Mulan
Iggy Arbuckle - Kira
The Princess and the Frog - Tiana
Winx Club: The Mystery of the Abyss - Icy and singer for "Sirenix"
Tashi - Lotus
Ralph Breaks the Internet - Mulan and Tiana
Jumpers - Character
Albums
Miss Saigon-Original Dutch cast recording (1997)
Love Me Just A Little Bit More: The Musical-Cast recording
Full Circle-Gospel album
Spamalot
Discography & profile
Normalised profile
Percentiles are computed over every artist in the database, so a tier-3 artist can still sit in the 95th percentile on a single axis.
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 22 | 83.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Percentiles are computed at render time; missing values mean the artist has no data on that axis.
Discography (1 release groups)
EP · 1
| Cover | Year | Title | Notes | First release |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | Laat me vrij om te gaanSearch SpotifySearch YouTube MusicTracklist · 4 tracks · 13:351Laat me vrij om te gaan3:51 2Laat me vrij om te gaan (instrumental)3:52 3No Goodbyes (radio edit)3:08 4No Goodbyes (Special radio dance remix)2:44 | 17 July 2015 |
Stats & PK
Percentile within all 23,672 published artists.Put Linda Wagenmakers head-to-head →
| Metric | Value | Percentile |
|---|---|---|
| Wikipedia language versions | 22 | 83.8th |
| Spotify monthly listeners | — | no data |
| Release groups in DB | 1 | 73.9th |
| Studio albums | 0 | 0th |
| Awards recorded | 0 | 0th |
| Timeline events | 2 | 62.1th |
| Recording span (years) | 0 | 9.4th |
| Genres | 1 | 56th |
Awards & honours
Where this record comes from
portrait—Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Linda-Wagenmakers-1622880981.jpgaliases/urls—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f68e001-aa58-425a-a80a-4c2d0ddb7ebcdiscography—musicbrainz · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/6f68e001-aa58-425a-a80a-4c2d0ddb7ebccore—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273941genre—wikidata · CC0 · retrieved 11 October 2026
https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q273941seed-list—wikipedia · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Wagenmakersbiography—wikipedia-en · CC BY-SA 4.0 · retrieved 10 October 2026
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Wagenmakers
Why this artist is in the database
- List of Dutch musicians
Tier rule: curated genre/region list
Image: Linda Wagenmakers · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons
Wikidata: Q273941 · MusicBrainz: 6f68e001-aa58-425a-a80a-4c2d0ddb7ebc
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