 In 1989, they contributed two songs for the National Songcontest, without success, and Niels played in the band of Conny Vandenbos.After two years of songwriting, they asked Marcel Kapteijn to sing on the demos that already included "You" and "Ain't My Beating Heart".When Sony Music heard the demos they were very interested in the songs sung by Marcel, who was still fed up with the music business.