Nynke Laverman
Nynke Laverman (Weidum, 14 April 1980) is a Frisian fado singer and actress. She has released three albums, all of which have charted in the Netherlands, and is credited in the Dutch press with inventing the "Frisian fado."[1]
Nynke Laverman did her internship at Tryater.
Biography
Schooling and early career Laverman attended college prep school in Leeuwarden.[1] In 1996 she won an audience award in a regional talent show for the song "Kom Werom." She moved to Amsterdam, where she graduated in 2002 from the Amsterdamse Toneelschool & Kleinkunstacademie. During her schooling, she sang with Paul de Leeuw during a series of concerts in Ahoy Rotterdam. She played parts in music videos and acted in a television series, Toscane, on VPRO television.
Laverman did an internship with a Frisian theatercompany, Tryater, and worked for them after graduation, presenting a musical television program, No Nynke, for Omrop Fryslân, the Frisian regional television station. In 2003, she participated in the Angela Vicario, part of the Oerol Festival on Terschelling, where she discovered her need to sing fados.[1]
Her first album was released in 2004: Sielesâlt contained fado music, with lyrics by Dutch poet J. Slauerhoff, and made her a "Frisian fado phenomenon."[2] She received the literary award from the city of Leeuwarden,[3] the Piter Jellespriis, in 2006, the same year her second album was released;[1] De Maisfrou contains lyrics by Frisian poet Albertine Soepboer, with whom she spent several months in Mexico.[2]
Notable performances
- On Koninginnedag 2005, the silver anniversary of Queen Beatrix, she performed for the queen in The Hague, and sang with Marco Borsato and Frans Bauer.[4]
- In 2006 she sang a Frisian/Limburgish duet on Rowwen Hèze's album Rodus & Lucis with Jack Poels, which was released as a single.[5]
- In 2007 she played in Cecilia, a production by Alex van Warmerdam's theater company Orkater.
- On the Dutch "Victory in Europe Day" in 2009 she performed at the 5 May concert on the Amstel in Amsterdam.
Discography
Albums
(with highest position and number of weeks in Dutch Album Top 100)
- Sielesâlt (2004; #41, 48 weeks)
- De Maisfrou (2006; #16, 25 weeks)
- Nomade (2009; #31, 10 weeks)
- Alter (2013)
References
- 1 2 3 4 Veilbrief, Arnoud (15 May 2006). "Nynke Laverman is een Fries fado-fenomeen". NRC Handelsblad. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- 1 2 "Nynke Laverman met Maisfrou in Heerde". De Stentor. 26 September 2006. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ↑ "Piter Jelles-priis voor Nynke Laverman". Leeuwarden.nl. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ↑ "Nynke Laverman heeft cadeautje voor Máxima". 3 April 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
- ↑ Dekker, Dennis (30 September 2008). "Geïnspireerde en inspirerende jonge honden: Rowwen Hèze – Rodus & Lucius". 8Weekly. Retrieved 27 May 2010.