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Artist
Sonja van Hamel
12+ albums
female vocalistsluisterpaalindie poppopchamber pop
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Sonja van Hamel (born 1971 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands) is a Dutch musician and graphic artist. She has been part of several bands, but also released two studio albums under her own name. Between 2000 and 2006 Van Hamel released two studio albums and one live album (the latter with The Metropole Orchestra) as the female half of Bauer, her duo with former Bettie Serveert drummer, Berend Dubbe. Bauer won a Zilveren Harp ('Silver Harp') for their work, a prestigious music prize in The Netherlands. In 2006, Sonja van Hamel started working on her own songs. She wrote soundtracks for short films, worked in San Francisco and New York and wrote the songs that ended up on her solo début, Winterland (2009), an album named after a movie by artist/director Dick Tuinder and orchestrated by Martin Fondse. Van Hamel performed the album live with the following musicians as her backing band: Mark van den Driest (drums & percussion), Rik Hansen or Gert-Jan Blom (bass), Annie Tangberg (cello & banjo) and Hanna Vink (backing vocals, banjo, guitar, mellotron sounds & melodica). Van Hamel herself sang lead vocals and played her trademark Wurlitzer 200A. October 2011 saw the release of Van Hamel's second solo album: Transcendental Man, produced by and featuring Ken Stringfellow. After a few years of work on non-music projects, Van Hamel re-surfaced in late 2015 with her new band, The Leonids. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may
