[Nicky91]

very shocking news this, one of my nation's multi award winning singers

some of the awards he has won in his career

1996 – 2006: Won a TMF Award, 11 times for best Dutch singer (In 2006, he joined Anouk in announcing their withdrawal from future TMF Awards-nominations. "Every year the same faces can get boring".)
1997: Edison Award, 2 times (Best Singer, Best Single of the Year)
1999: Golden Harp (with John Ewbank)
2000: Hitkrant Award, for the song Binnen ("Inside")
2000: Honorary Award for Best Album (Luid en Duidelijk ("Loud and Clear")) and Best Singer
2001: Edison Award (Best Singer)
2010: Twitteraar van het Jaar (Best Twitter user)

Many of his songs are Dutch covers or adaptations of Italian songs (by Riccardo Fogli, Giorgia, Riccardo Cocciante, Claudio Baglioni, Marco Masini and Zucchero among others). In particular, Borsato gained a lot of success in 1996 with an adaptation of Riccardo Cocciante's Margherita. After deciding to keep singing in Dutch, Borsato's career really took off.

Borsato released 3 albums with Italian songs, before gaining popularity in 1994 with his first Dutch single "Dromen Zijn Bedrog" ("Dreams Are Deceptive”) which reached number one and stayed there for 12 weeks. His second single "Waarom Nou Jij" also reached the first place in the Dutch "Top 40.

In 2011 he became a judge on the Dutch talent show The Voice of Holland and The Voice Kids. He is currently tied with Blake Shelton of The Voice as the highest-times winning coach in any The Voice version throughout the world, with 4 winners in The Voice of Holland and 3 winners in The Voice Kids.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Borsato