Wolter Kroes

Wolter Kroes ( born December 24, 1968 in Wormerveer, North Holland ) is a Dutch pop singer of the 1990s with light music in the Dutch language has been known since the middle in his home country.

Career

Kroes first contact with music was a small drum that he had been given by a native of Volendam jazz drummer January Keizer. Following the advice of his parents, he took from the age of 16 singing lessons with Aleida van Dongen, the mother of cabaret Lenette van Dongen.

Four years later he won in 1988 with a rendition of Engelbert Humperdinck Spanish Eyes hit in the disco Tendance Wormerveer a nationwide talent contest and began to concentrate henceforth on a career as a singer. Was released in 1989 by the record company Telstar Kroes ' debut single Ik mis per elke dag een beetje sea. A flop. His second single Walking on the Moon, which was created in 1990 in collaboration with Peter de Wijn, was not a success.

Only in 1995, after he was taken by Willem van Kootens record label Red Bullet under contract, the breakthrough came. With the written by Theun de Winter Single Laat me los succeeded him in the summer of 1995 for the first time jump into the Nederlandse Top 40 was followed by numerous radio and television appearances, whereupon also be a year before published debut album went into the charts.

In 1997, Kroes, the follow-up album De wereld in the market, which he had recorded a number of experienced studio musicians, including drummer Ton Dijkman, the saxophone player Kees ten Dam and guitarist Rob winter. But only one of the five coupled- singles, the song Bolero, was a minor hit.

This was followed by several appearances on major television shows such as the Staatsloterijshow, Barend en Van Dorp and Koffietijd. In November 2002, he presented with a concert in the Heineken Music Hall in Amsterdam his fourth album 24 uur per dag. In the spring of 2004, he appeared there again in the context of the Concert des Levens in honor of Johnny Hoes on, in the autumn of the same year he sang in front of 48,000 spectators at the farewell concert of the recently deceased singer André Hazes in the Amsterdam Arena. In early 2005 he gave two sold-out concerts in Rotterdam Ahoy. With this DVD recorded live at Ahoy Kroes landed 30 his first number-one hit in the Dutch Top Music DVD.

In September 2007, he succeeded for the first time with the single rivet normaal the jump into the top ten of the Dutch Singles Chart. He had his biggest hit but 2008. Already in 2006, the party band Santa Rosa had the Carnival Kölsch Shit Viva Colonia of Hoehner Viva Hollandia vice writes and thus had a minor hit. At the 2008 European Football Championship played Kroes the mood Shit, and re- occupied in June 2008, so # 1 on the charts.

Since 1 June 2007, Kroes is married to Tessa Dijkstra. The wedding was exclusively broadcast on Dutch television station SBS 6 as part of the broadcast Shownieuws. Both brought two children from previous relationships into the marriage. Their son is called Thomas Valentijn.

Discography

Albums

• 2005: Live in Ahoy (number 1 in the Dutch Top 30 Music DVD )
• 2006: Uit en thuis ( docu-soap )