Year Of Birth  

1960

For How Long Have You been Making Music? 

I started playing the recorder at the age of 8 and two years later my father bought me a ”real” flute and I took lessons for quite a few  years. I never expected to be playing the recorder ever again in my life! I did when I joined Flamborough Head in 2001.

I started playing the flute in an instrumental band in 1982 (together with Edo, and my brother Menno, Odyssice). Later on, when we decided to play covers  I also became the singer in that band. (Although I had been singing along records for as long as I can remember, this was the real thing!) After that, I sang in a melodic rock band which wrote its own material. When that band split up I became the lead-vocalist in a jazz rock/fusion band. At the same time I sang and played flute and tin whistle in a folk band. After a couple of years  I started singing in a new rock cover band which I did for about ten years. Occasionally I perform with an acoustic guitar player/singer with whom I also recorded a demo. The songs we play could be classified as folk.

Musical Influences  

When I was young I listened to Carole King, Carly Simon, Joni Mitchell, Joan Armatrading and The Shirts (and of course many other bands and singers)

but I don’t know if they have influenced me in any way. Some singers that I like very much at this moment are Mary Black, Annie Haslam, Eva Cassidy and Tori Amos, Amanda Marshall. It seems that I have always preferred to listen to female singers.

As all my recorders and flute were made by Yamaha, I suppose that is my favourite brand.

- Mary Black - By the time it gets dark (and the other albums)

- Heart - Dreamboat Annie

- Mostly Autumn - The spirit of Autumn Past

- Carole King - Tapestry

- Camel - Snow Goose

- Tori Amos - Little earthquakes

- Renaissance - A song for all seasons

- Pink Floyd - Wish you were here

- Amanda Marshall -  Amanda Marshall

- Ilse delange - World of Hurt