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Supersister
12+ albums
Progressive rockdutchCanterburyrockProgressive
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There are (at least) two groups called Supersister: a Dutch progressive rock band and a British girl group. 1. Supersister was an experimental rock band from The Hague, The Netherlands, active from 1968 to 1974 and again from 2019 onwards. They play a jazz-tinged brand of progressive rock. The classic line-up of the 1970s featured Robert Jan Stips (keyboards, vocals), Sacha van Geest (flute), Marco Vrolijk (drums) and Ron van Eck (bass). The band started as a playful school band under the name Sweet OK Supersister in 1968, featuring singer and songwriter Rob Douw, who soon left the group. The remaining members continued as a more serious musical quartet under the name Supersister. Their style was Canterbury Scene-style prog rock, with a dominant Stips as the group's keyboard virtuoso. Their début album, Present from Nancy (1970), spawned their first (and biggest) Dutch hit single, She Was Naked. After two more studio albums (1971's To The Highest Bidder and 1972's Pudding en Gisteren) both Van Geest and Vrolijk decided to quit. The remaining members, together with newcomers Charly Mariano (wind instruments) and Herman van Boeyen (drums), released the album Iskander (1973), a jazz-rock concept album based on the life of Alexander the Great. In 1974 Stips and Van Geest re-united for an album (Spiral Staircase), released under the original band name, Sweet Okay Supersister. It turned out to be the group's swan song. Stips moved on to play keyboards in Golden Earring for nea
