Nynke Laverman

Nynke Laverman (Weidum, 14 April 1980) is a Frisian singer of fado and other genres and an actress. She has released five albums, four 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 Rotterdam Ahoy. She played parts in music videos and acted in a television series, Toscane, on VPRO television.

Laverman did an internship with a Frisian theater company, 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

Discography

Albums

(with highest position and number of weeks in Dutch Album Top 100)

  • Sielesâlt (2004; No. 41, 48 weeks)
  • De Maisfrou (2006; No. 16, 25 weeks)
  • Nomade (2009; No. 31, 10 weeks)
  • Alter (2013; No. 71, 2 weeks)
  • Wachter (2016)
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References
  1. Veilbrief, Arnoud (15 May 2006). "Nynke Laverman is een Fries fado-fenomeen". NRC Handelsblad. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  2. "Nynke Laverman met Maisfrou in Heerde". De Stentor. 26 September 2006. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  3. "Piter Jelles-priis voor Nynke Laverman". Leeuwarden.nl. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  4. "Nynke Laverman heeft cadeautje voor Máxima". 3 April 2008. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
  5. Dekker, Dennis (30 September 2008). "Geïnspireerde en inspirerende jonge honden: Rowwen Hèze – Rodus & Lucius". 8Weekly. Retrieved 27 May 2010.
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