Klaas Dijkstra
Born and raised in Friesland. Started drumming at the age of 8 at music school. From the age of 10 in marching bands and exchanged them for bands at the…
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Tirtzah Bego
Tirtzah comes from a musical family. However, she only started playing drums when she was 25 and there was an instant connection! She quickly formed a band, Loosely Inspired, with…
Stewart Copeland
Copeland grew up listening to a combination of Lebanese music, rock and roll, jazz, and reggae, but he selected from these styles what he needed rather than imitating them. In…
Pierre Courbois
Pierre Courbois is a Dutch jazz drummer, bandleader and composer. Career Courbois studied classical percussion at the Muzieklyceum in Arnhem. He then moved to Paris, at the time the capital…
Aad Hooft
Drummer best known to the general public as the drummer of the Bintangs. In 1959 the group was still called “Rocket Dynes” and “Black Panthers” but from 1961 they called…
Tessa Boomkamp
At the age of 11, she developed a strong preference for drums. She grew up with the music of Toto and was impressed by drummer Jeff Porcaro as a teenager.…
Jeroen Booy
Drummer Jeroen Booy was born in 1966 in Oostzaan. At the age of four, there was only one thing that really interested him and that was his mother Jantien’s acoustic…
Arjan Visser
Arjan started playing drums in the brass band at age 7 and soon began playing on a motley collection of pot lids, cookie jars, practice pads, and a cousin’s “real”…
Jeroen van Heel
From the age of 8 he started tapping on everything that was loose and fixed! And after his father took him to a concert of the Golden Earring he really…
Kev Whitehead
Drummer and Percussionist. Kev’s earliest venture into professional playing was recording with a band called Blue Zone which featured a very young Lisa Stansfield. Since then he has recorded many…