In 1996, Franklin Brown and Maxine won the Nationaal Songfestival with the song "De eerste keer".

This gave them the right to represent the Netherlands in the Eurovision Song Contest 1996, held in Oslo, Norway.

[2] Apart from Maxine and Franklin Brown, this group consists of the Dutch Eurovision representatives Mandy Huydts (of Frizzle Sizzle, 1986), Marlayne (1999) and Esther Hart (2003).

[2] In 2020, Brown participated in a special Eurovision-themed broadcast of the Dutch television programme Beste Zangers, in which he performed the song "One Good Reason" by Marlayne.

After several female colleagues had accused him of sexual assault, he was fired and received a two-month suspended prison sentence.