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Bio
Ever since my earliest memories, music always played an important role in my life. My sister, she could play piano beautifully, and I can remember clearly trying to reproduce her playing by ear when she wasn't around! Of course my hands were way too small, so I had to make up my own versions, which might not have pleased her.. ;-) Looking back now, I think those were my first attempts to make a song. Still, even though my obvious love for music, it would take many more years before I decided to pick up an instrument myself. Arriving at this site, I think it's obvious which instrument I'm talking about!! -The Guitar-
One of my best friends, he had an electric guitar, and he could really play it!! He let me hold it, showed me a chord and put on the overdrive...The rest is history..;-) I saved money to buy my own guitar and for my 18th birthday I got guitarlessons. I was really lucky to have a great guitarteacher, Jeff Zwart. Then and even more so today, he is one of our countries best and most respected guitarists, and for a few years, he learned me many things. He also recommended me to the first band I played in from 1997 to 1999 -REPTILE-
During those years, I went to Groningen, the city I still live in, to follow a course in Psychology and later also History, but my heart, it just wasn't really into it.. It was there when I was playing through the nights and recording the songs I heard swirling around in my head, and then I knew writing songs was what I REALLY wanted.. So, it was an easy decision really to quit my studies, find a job, and focus on my music whenever I could.
Years later, my dream of having my own music site, finally came true!! I started out as a songwriter for other artists, in 2009 I released my first tracks as DesuTeru, and last August 2015 I released my first album "In Vacant Frequencies" as Van Klinken.