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Colette Wickenhagen"A theatre animal with a rich, warm & sensual voice" |
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Photographer
Pavel Korbut
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1990Won the Polaroid Award& Soloist Award1992Won the Breukelen Jazz Award |
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COLETTE,
Dutch Jazz vocalist, with a great love for "the Blues".
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| Born
in 1959 in a family where music and especially jazzmusic played an important role, she started dancing and singing at the age of six. |
* 1990,
together with the Big Band Nijmegen she won the Polaroid Award & Soloist Award. |
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| * 1992, she won the Breukelen Jazz Award. | ||||
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| * 1994
her first solo CD: "the Kick of the Blues" was brought
out, and later that year she also sang on the CD of Big Band Nijmegen: "Retrospective". |
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| Studied
from 1972 successively at the Dance Conservatoire in The Hague / NL, the Arts Educational School in London / GB and the Show/Musical College from the Nel Roos & the Cabaret Academy in Amsterdam / NL. |
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| * 1994 she toured through Bahrain and Kenya. | ||||
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| * 1997
she did a project with the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra in the Netherlands, Germany & Spain. |
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being engaged by Intro Dance, she toured schools with dance projects. |
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| * 2000
she was a guest on the CD "Swing Time!" from the band Captains of Mainstream. |
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1983 she played a part in a Dutch T.V. series: 'De Weg Naar (the way to) Peruwelz'. (TROS / NL). |
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| * 2001 she sang on the CD: "Summer Sessions 2001". | ||||
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| * 2002
she was a guest on the CD: "A Living Legend" from the Dutch saxophone legend Harry Verbeke. |
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also worked for 7 years as an entertainer, actress and singer on theme evenings at a Party Company in Amsterdam / NL. |
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2002 a new summer project with the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra in the Netherlands. |
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| *
2003 (30 Oct.) the new CD "Songs
for Sale" was released. Here Clous van Mechelen is playing the saxophone. The album was released by Munich Records. |
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| She
is definitely at her best before a 'live' audience, since she is known as a real 'theatre animal'! |
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| *
2004 a Brazilian project with the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra in the Netherlands and Germany. |
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| Now
she sings in many different settings and with many musicians in small combo's and in Big Bands, in the Netherlands and Abroad. |
* Plays regularly in Germany and Belgium. | |||
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| * In 2006 concerts in France. | ||||
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| * In 2007 concerts in Moscow and Tver, Russia.. | ||||
| Since
2007, she can be found on the
free download Top 200 list of the American site: All About Jazz. She started on the 168th place and stands currently (March 2012) on place 32. |
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| * In 2009
the new CD Just Friends Jammin'
came out. Musicians: Clous van Mechelen, Rinus Groeneveld, Saskia Laroo, Frits Kaatee, Michael Gustorff, Hans Kwakkernaat, Wiro Mahieu en Ben Schröder. |
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| In dec 2009 new concerts in Russia: Moscow and Obninsk. | ||||
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| In 2010
the compilation CD Reference
Vocal 3 was released in Hong Kong. |
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| In 2011-2012,
11 compilation CD's were released in Singapore & Malaysia. see CD-info. |
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Ever
since 1986 she specialized as a Jazz & Blues vocalist and worked
with a.o.:
Rob Agerbeek, Rob v. Kreeveld, Cees Slinger, Henk Haverhoek, Edwin Corzilius, John Engels, Frits Landesbergen, Ferdinand Povel, Fred Leeflang, Clous v. Mechelen, Saskia Laroo, Dick Vennik, Jan Verwey, Rinus Groeneveld, Bob & Simon Rigter, Harry Verbeke, Claudio Roditi, Claudio Roditi, the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra and many others. |
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| Critic reviews: | ||||
| "…
She has a voice like a luxuriously upholstered bridal suite. Pleasant, sumptuous, warm. Complete with exciting nooks and soft carpets in subdued shades. Colette Wickenhagen, one of the shiners of Amersfoort jazz, blossomed into the complete jazz diva with her elastic timbre, almost unlimited technique, playful improvisations, penetrating interpretation of the lyrics and remarkable radiation...." (Jeroen de Valk). |
"... Still, while performing she gives a lot
more than just a professional show; she gives herself. That enormous physical expressiveness, the willingness to throw herself deeply into a song, the art of swingingly taking in tow a full concert hall, is part of her being. From the top of her head to the tip of her toes she ís music...." (Jan Rensen). |
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She has a wonderful voice with an expressiveness and eloquence that reaches far beyond the theatre…" (Ton Ouwehand) |
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A personality with a rich warm and sensuous voice, that forces the audience to listen ..." (Enschede / Polaroid Award) |
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| photo: 1992 |
photo: 2009
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