Natascha Bessez

Natascha Bessez is an American singer and beauty pageant titleholder. She competed in the Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2014 and on The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart in 2020.

Early life Bessez has a Chilean mother and a father of French descent.

Career

Pageantry

Bessez was named Miss New York Teen USA 2005.

Music career In 2007, Bessez was chosen to compete in the reality music competition on CW 11's Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll. After making it to the top 18, she then competed in the group audition round, where she performed, "I Don't Need a Man" by The Pussycat Dolls along with Anjelia, Chelsea, Jasmin, Anastacia, and Robyn, but was eliminated.

In 2014, Bessez competed in the Eurovision Song Contest Prelim's, Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2014 with the song "Wanna Be Loved" along with Danish saxophonist Michael Rune. In the final held on 8 March 2014 in Odense, the duo performed tenth and made it into the superfinal after placing in the top three. In the superfinal, they received 7 points from the jury and 8 from the public vote, ending them up in a dual second place with Rebekka Thornbech and her song "Your Lies", behind the winner Basim and his song "Cliche Love Song". "Wanna Be Loved" represented Denmark in the OGAE Second Chance Contest 2014, a contest where each country's OGAE fanclub selects a song to represent them that didn't win their country's national selection. It placed fifth out of twenty competing songs.

In 2018, she auditioned for The Voice of Holland, performing “Finesse” by Bruno Mars and Cardi B.

Personal life In 2018, after meeting a Dutchman while living in New York City, she moved together with him to the town of Vlaardingen.

Filmography Year Title Role Notes 2007 Pussycat Dolls Present: The Search for the Next Doll Herself; contestant 2008 Lipstick Jungle Waitress Episode: "Chapter Six: Take the High Road" 2008 Gossip Girl Cocktail Waitress Episode: "All About My Brother" 2008 Sex and the City Patron Uncredited 2009 Confessions of a Shopaholic Wedding Guest Uncredited 2009 Royal Pains Party Guest Episode: "Nobody's Perfect" 2014 Dansk Melodi Grand Prix 2014 Herself; contestant With Michael Rune 2018–2019 The Voice of Holland Herself; contestant Season 9; eliminated in battle rounds 2020 The Bachelor Presents: Listen to Your Heart Herself; contestantEliminated in week 5