Maarten van Roozendaal


Maarten van Roozendaal was a Dutch singer, comedian and songwriter. He recorded "I'm So Curious", and variously worked with Paul de Munnik, Willem Ennes, Egon Kracht, Marcel de Groot and Kim Soepnel.

Biography

Van Roozendaal was born in Heiloo, North Holland, Netherlands. In his youth he was involved with music, and he combined this with his work as a bartender. He wrote music for Teleac school television, playing piano, plus he played drums in a punk band, and directed and advised other artists. In 1994, he won the jury and audience at the Cabaret Festival. He mainly performed his own work, but also that of Cornelis Vreeswijk and Bram Vermeulen. Van Roozendaal also put some poems by Jean Pierre Rawie to music.
Van Roozendaal's work was sometimes of a melancholy tone, at other times cynical. His recurring themes are life, love, death and drink.
On 8 February 2013, it was made public that Van Roozendaal was terminally ill with lung cancer. Subsequently all of his performances were cancelled. Van Roozendaal died on July 1, 2013 at the age of 51.

Theater

With Paul de Munnik
With Egon Kracht, Marcel de Groot, Wouter Planteijdt, Richard Heijerman and Nico Brandsen
With Egon Kracht and Marcel de Groot
With Willem Ennes for Children for Children
With Egon Kracht, Jeffrey Bruinsma, Michiel van Dijk and Marcel de Groot
With Egon Kracht
With Kim Soepnel