Dennis van Hoorn (June 22, 1970) saw Cesar Zuiderwijk drumming with Golden Earring at the age of 12 and knew for sure: “I want that too!”
After a few years of air drumming with music from the Earring, Dennis took the plunge and played in a school band at the age of sixteen. He quickly discovered that drumming was more than just tapping along and took lessons from Paul Reijenga in Voorburg. In the meantime, he often went to Golden Earring concerts and mainly watched Cesar, his way of playing, his chops and paid close attention to the ins and outs of a band during a live concert.
From the age of 18, things became a bit more large-scale and he performed weekly with the cover band Virgin Dreams. In 1991, Dennis started working at the music store RockPalace in The Hague, where he came into contact with Cesar Zuiderwijk even more. This resulted in him giving drum lessons at ‘Music Station’, where he would remain associated with for 10 years.
In 1994, he released the album ‘Libra’ and the accompanying singles with his band Control Over The Masses, which received some airplay on local and national radio. In the meantime, he played throughout the country with cover bands such as Midnight Temptation and The Playmates.
With the latter band, they were the regular backing band for Erikah Karst and Elisa Bertollini (Ita), with whom they played a lot at national radio and television stations.
In 2005, Dennis got to know Najib Amhali. He helped Najib with the use of digital drums in his shows ‘Zorg Dat Je Erbij Komt’ and ‘The Best Of’. In 2010, Najib asked him to form a band to go on tour with. With this band PlusSupportAct, he accompanied Najib during the shows ‘Alles Komt Goed’ and ‘IAmhali’. This was followed by a music tour along the pop venues in the Netherlands and they released the album ‘Do Re Mi’ with Najib. In addition to the tour with Najib, PlusSupportAct played at festivals, corporate parties, etc. and were occasionally the backing band for Twarres, Rob Bolland, Hans Vermeulen, Polle Eduard, George Baker, Owen Paul and many others.
Since 2022, Dennis has been playing with ‘Golden Earring Undercover’. A tribute band that honors the music of Golden Earring live after the band’s fateful end due to George Kooymans’ illness. Golden Earring Undercover is currently doing a theater tour along all theaters in the Netherlands with the title ‘Coming On Strong’. One of the highlights was the performance in Ahoy’ as the main band at the fan concert ‘de Earring & Ik’.
In addition to drumming, Dennis has the company Picovello, with which he makes custom printed bass drum heads.
Work experience
1991-2018 Product specialist/ assistant manager RockPalace/Keymusic, The Hague
1992-2001 Drum teacher MusicStation, The Hague
2010-present owner TCB Entertainment/Picovello
Highlights Work experience Drums
2010-present Drummer Plussupportact
2010-present Drummer Najib Amhali
2016-2017 Drummer Twarres
2018-present Drummer Golden Earring Undercover
National television publications
2013 Comedy Factory, RTL
2013 Everything Will Be Alright, Najib Amhali
2016 IAmhali, Najib Amhali
2024 de Earring & Ik
Released Albums
1994 Control Over The Masses-Libra
2013 Everything Will Be Alright-Najib Amhali
2016 I Amhali-Najib Amhali
2018 Do-Najib Amhali
2023 Unfinished Business-Alexander Broussard
Released Singles
1994 Care-Control Over The Masses
1994 Right Place, Wrong Time-Control Over The Masses
2014 Oranje Leeuwen-Najib Amhali & Plussupportact
2020 Say No To No-Plussupportact
2020 Let It Shine-Rebels & Angels ft. Annabelle
2023 Must Be The Smile-Alexander Broussard
2023 Riding On-Alexander Broussard
2023 De Hunkering-De Hunkering
