1. Iris Kroes was the winner of the second season of the television program The Voice of Holland on January 20,2012, making her the second female contestant worldwide to win the show after Steliyana Khristova, who won the Bulgarian version of the show.
Iris Kroes's mother was a flute player, while her sister played clarinet and sang, and her father was an ongoing music encyclopedia.
Under family influence, Iris began to learn harp while she was nine and immediately fell in love in harp playing.
All of 4 Judges in this Blind Audition pressed "I WANT YOU" button and turned their chairs around within first 15 seconds of her performance Iris Kroes chose Borsato as her coach.
Iris Kroes's winning song and official debut single was Bonnie Raitt's "I Can't Make You Love Me" that entered the official Dutch Top 40 at No 6, in its first week of release, making it to No 3 of the Single Top 100.
Iris Kroes was on tour with her former coach Marco Borsato, which she performed at the Ziggo Dome include twice in 2012.
In early 2013, Iris Kroes gave the First Frisian single Thus in recognition of her Frisian roots.
At the opening of the Fries Museum in September 2013 Iris Kroes sang for Queen Beatrix a song that was written especially for the opening.
Iris Kroes had premiered this song on the Film Premiere at May 22,2014.
On 23 July 2014 Iris Kroes played and sang the song I still cry, originally written by Julie Miller and performed by Ilse de Lange, during the national memorial service Verbonden in Verdriet in the Sint Joriskerk in Amersfoort for Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 Air Disaster with her performance reported worldwide through CNN.
On June 27,2015, Iris Kroes released her first song in Dutch language, Bijna Met Jou for the project 'Fietsliedjes' from provence Drenthe for showing why they are the number one bicycle province of the Netherlands.