Dutch Country Artist Quinty’s Releases New Single “Stuck”
Dutch country artist Quinty’s is stepping into an exciting new chapter, both personally and musically. With more than 1.7 million career streams, recognition from Spotify EQUAL Benelux, and national radio airplay across the Netherlands, the rising singer-songwriter is now bringing her music to Canada.
Her latest single, “Stuck,” is a warm, fiddle-led country track exploring the uncertainty of two people caught somewhere between friendship and a relationship. Built around the frustration of waiting for something meaningful to finally unfold, the song also mirrors a period of major change in Quinty’s own life.
This September, Quinty’s made the move from the Netherlands to Winnipeg, Manitoba, marking the beginning of a new adventure and a fresh chapter in her career. The move also brought her closer to Canada’s country music community, including a performance during Country Music Week 2026 in Saskatoon.
First off, care to introduce yourself to our readers?
Absolutely! Hi there, it’s Quinty’s. I’m a Dutch country music artist, professional hopeful romantic and apparently someone who thinks moving across the Atlantic for her music career is a perfectly reasonable life decision, haha.
I write warm, story-driven country music about love, longing and all those wonderfully complicated feelings we tend to find ourselves in. Over the past few years, I’ve been building my career independently in the Netherlands, and somewhere along the way an experimental trip to Canada got slightly out of hand. Now I’m packing up my life and moving to Winnipeg to see just how far this adventure can go.
Outside of music, I’m endlessly curious, way too enthusiastic to ever pretend to be cool and generally someone who would rather take the chance and find out than spend the rest of my life wondering what could have happened.
Your new single, “Stuck,” explores that complicated space between friendship and a relationship. What inspired the story behind the song?
I was fascinated by that very specific space where two people clearly mean more to each other than just friendship, but nobody has actually done anything about it (yet). You can talk for hours, there’s something hanging in the air, and meanwhile you’re trying to figure out whether the other person is feeling any of the same things you are. That tension can be agonizing.
The line that started it all was, “I’m too afraid of losing you by rushing this.” I loved that contradiction. You want something to happen, but the reason you’re being careful is that you care so much about what it could become.
And as we continued writing it, I started realizing how familiar that feeling is outside of love too. So many things in life have that in-between stage where you’ve taken the steps you can take, you know something is growing, but you don’t get to decide how quickly it unfolds. A career, a friendship, an opportunity… Sometimes you just have to live in the middle for a while. I think that realization made “Stuck” mean a lot more to me than the relationship at the centre of it.
The fiddle plays a prominent role in “Stuck.” What drew you toward that warm, traditional country sound for this particular song?
You know, the funny thing is that we didn’t go into the studio knowing the fiddle would become such a big part of “Stuck.” Murray and I had pretty much finished building the guitars when we started talking about what the song was still missing.
I had wanted fiddle on one of my records for the longest time, but never wanted to add it just for the sake of having it. None of my songs had really asked for fiddle yet.
Then with this song Murray casually said, “Could be fiddle,” and we immediately knew that was it. There is actually a video somewhere of me squealing when he suggested it, haha, I should post it at some point.
And then we got incredibly lucky to have Jenee Fleenor, a five-time CMA Musician of the Year, play on the record. What I love about fiddle is how human it can sound. There’s warmth to it, but it can carry this ache and yearning at the same time. That fit “Stuck” so naturally that once we heard it in the arrangement, I couldn’t imagine the song without it. It almost feels like the fiddle is saying all the things the two people in the song aren’t saying to each other.
Your first Canadian tour ultimately inspired you to move from the Netherlands to Canada. Was there a specific moment during that tour when you realized Canada could become home?
It was actually during my very last performance, the day before I flew back to the Netherlands. I was playing a writer’s round in Oakville, Ontario, and once I’d finished my songs, all I could think was, “I really don’t want to go back yet.”
I think that caught me off guard because I’d only been in Canada for three weeks. Three weeks of absolute chaos, saying yes to every opportunity, walking through every door that opened and meeting so many people along the way. Canada had given me one of the warmest welcomes I’d ever experienced.
So no, I didn’t leave that night thinking, “Okay, I’m moving to Canada.” It was much more instinctive than that. I just knew I wanted more time. Then I went home, started figuring out what “more time” could actually look like, and one thing led to another. Now I’m moving to Winnipeg, which still sounds slightly ridiculous when I say it out loud, haha.
I’ve learned that not every big decision starts with a perfectly rational plan. Sometimes you feel something first and figure out the practicalities afterwards. That’s pretty much what happened with Canada.
You’ve chosen Winnipeg as your new home base. What attracted you to the city, both personally and as a country artist?
Winnipeg was actually a complete accident, which makes choosing it as my home base even funnier to me. During my first Canadian run, I had a free weekend in the middle of all my Ontario dates and thought, “Well, I’m in Canada, I might as well go somewhere I’ve never been.” So I booked a flight to Winnipeg.
Somehow that weekend turned into playing a few songs at Times Changed High & Lonesome Club, going to a local networking event and meeting all these incredibly welcoming people. I left thinking, “There’s something about this place.” So when I came back to Canada in May, I decided to spend an entire month there. I was curious to see whether that feeling would hold up when I was actually living a normal life instead of visiting for a weekend. And it did.
Personally, Winnipeg grounds me. I found a rhythm there surprisingly quickly, and I love how warm and community-minded people are. Musically, it became even more significant when I started working with Murray Pulver. We clicked creatively almost immediately, and suddenly this city I had visited on a whim became the place where I was making my next music too.
Plus, I’m a big winter girl, so apparently I decided I should test that statement in one of the most aggressive ways possible, haha. Ask me again after my first -30!
With “Stuck” arriving September 25 and a brand-new life beginning in Canada, what do you hope this next chapter looks like for Quinty’s — both musically and personally?
Hopefully it looks like a lot of music, a lot of stages and probably a few moments where I stop and think, “How did I end up here?” haha.
“Stuck” feels like the beginning of a sound that still has so much room to grow: warm, story-driven country that isn’t afraid to sit in the softer emotions. We’ve got a lot of new music in the works with Murray, and the exciting part is following what feels honest rather than trying to predict exactly where it all needs to go.
I also really want to play. A lot. I want to travel across Canada, walk onto stages in places I’ve never been, meet the people who show up and build something here one room at a time!
But outside of everything happening with my career, I hope I actually build a life in Canada too. Not just fly from show to studio to meeting and suddenly realize I forgot to experience the beautiful country I moved to. The normal things will matter just as much in between: finding my favourite coffee place, making friends, skating in winter and discovering places I didn’t plan on going.
Mostly, I hope I stay curious. I have absolutely no idea what my life is going to look like a year from now, and for once I don’t really want to know. I’ve taken the leap, and now I get to find out what happens.