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Artist
Ruben Hoeke Band
12+ albums
bluesbuesdutchblues rock
about
Ruben Hoeke started playing the guitar at age fourteen. His childhood dreams of being a professional Football player in the Dutch National football team soon disappeared when he heard the guitar intro to Guns 'n Roses classic `Sweet Child O' Mine'. That’s when he realized what he wanted to be. Inspired by this haunting guitar riff, he decided to trade his football for a guitar. It took about six guitar lessons to find out that he would be better off learning to play by listening to records. 1992: Inspired by albums like Ten Years After's 'Cricklewood green' and John Mayall’s 'A hard Road' Ruben forms his first band: Blues on the Road. Holland’s youngest blues corporation. 1994: After about two years the group split and Ruben joined the Dutch rock and roll band 'Pepping Express'. During that period he also collaborated with well known rocksinger Reniet Vrieze ('The Pilgrims'). The fall of 1996 he left for Chicago and the deep south of America to get the real feel of where the blues actually came from, in old blues clubs, he performes with a lot of musicians, including Shirley King (‘daughter of the blues’). Back in Holland he sets up two new bands; The Hurricane Bluesband (solid boogie-woogie & blues) and Stonefreak (‘concrete-rock’) From time to time he joins his father’s band (Rob Hoeke) to gain experience. At an early age he shares the stage with a number of profesional musicians such as; Eelco Gelling, Jan Akkerman, David Gogo, Herman Brood, Kaz lux etc. In the period of
