✎ | Hendrikus Cornelis Jacoba Vrienten |
☆ | 07/27/1948 |
† | 04/25/2022 |
∞ | Dutch composer, guitar player, bass player, pianist and singer. Became hugely succcessful in the early 1980s with his band Doe Maar, which made Beatle-mania look tame in comparison, in the Netherlands. After disbanding Doe Maar, Vrienten started a solo career and focussed ever more on film and television music. Doe Maar’s reunion in 2000 picked things up where the band had left them in 1984: unprecedented success. The group played no less than 16 (!) sold out shows in Rotterdam’s Ahoy. From then on the band would reconvene every four/five years to trek though The Netherlands and Belgium at sold out venues right up to the very end. Later on, Vrienten worked with Dutch legends Boudewijn de Groot and George Kooijmans (Golden Earring) using the moniker Vreemde Kostgangers. He also collaborated with rock stars like Herman Brood and Raymond van het Groenewoud. Meanwhile, he constantly maintained a successful solo career and turned into a highly skilled and valued musician and composer |
♫ | Selection Doe Maar: Skunk Doris Day En Andere Stukken Doe De Dub 4us Lijf Aan Lijf Klaar Solo: Vreemde Kostgangers: |
Apr 25 2022