Name	Nederpop
Bgcolor	lime
Color	black
Stylistic origins	Pop, Rock
Cultural origins	Early 1960s
Instruments	Electric guitar - Bass guitar - Drums - Vocals
Popularity	Netherlands
Subgenrelist	Music of the Netherlands#Rock and Pop Music
Subgenres	Levenslied - Nederbeat
Fusiongenres	Indorock

Nederpop is a Dutch term that was invented by the mid-1970s to describe the pop music scene of the 1960s and 1970s that was gaining worldwide attention, exemplified by bands such as Shocking Blue, Golden Earring and Focus. The name is a play on the country's name in Dutch (Nederland). Most of the Nederpop bands of this period had English-language songs or played only instrumentals, but some of the bands performed exclusively in the Dutch language.

During the early 1980s, the Nederpop term was revived to name the sudden growth of Dutch language pop music from the Netherlands. The revived meaning came about because of the huge success of Doe Maar. This success helped other bands to sing in Dutch and/or get the spot light.

Sixties

Golden Earring

The Motions

Outsiders

Seventies

Shocking Blue

Focus

Ekseption

Luv'

De Bintangs

Earth and Fire

George Baker Selection

Eighties

Aside from Doe Maar, the early eighties were good for amongst others the Frank Boeijen Groep, Het Goede Doel, The Amazing Stroopwafels, Toontje Lager and Noodweer. Female Dutch Bands included: Dolly Dots, Mai Tai

Later Netherlandic

Acda & de Munnik

Luie hond

Osdorp Posse

De Dijk

Van Dik Hout

Bløf

The Scene

De Poema's (coöperation of Van Dik Hout and Acda & de Munnik)

Spinvis

Ellen ten Damme

Dutch (rock) bands singing in local dialects

Heidevolk

Normaal

Rowwen Hèze

Skik

Twarres

De Kast

Other Dutch (mainly English language)

The Plackband

The Nits

Claw Boys Claw

Heideroosjes

Kane

Di-rect

Stevie Ann

Coparck

The Sheer

Krezip

The Madd

See also

Nederbeat

Europop

Category:Dutch styles of music

Name	Jan Akkerman
Background	non_vocal_instrumentalist
Born	December 24, 1946
Origin	Amsterdam, Netherlands
Instrument	Guitar, lute
Religion	Christian
Genre	Rock, blues, jazz
Occupation	Guitarist
Years active	1958–present
Associated acts	Johnny and The Cellar Rockers, The Hunters, Brainbox, Focus
Url	www.janakkerman.nl
Past members	Thijs van Leer
Notable instruments	Gibson les paul custom, Gibson SG, Catalyst Jakkerman

Jan Akkerman (born 24 December 1946, Amsterdam, Netherlands) is a Dutch guitarist. Akkerman is a distinctive guitarist, constantly experimenting with new equipment and guitars. Akkerman's distinctive guitar sound is characterised by his pioneering use of volume swells which produce a smooth, fluty, sustained note, although he is also capable of astonishing high-speed pyrotechnics. He also pioneered the use of the lute in a rock band, reflecting his interest in medieval and Renaissance music and culture. He first reached world acclaim in the 1970s when he was seen as the core of the Dutch rock band, Focus, together with Thijs van Leer.

Biography

Akkerman was born in the 'Jordaan' area of Amsterdam as the son of a scrap iron trader. At age five he took guitar lessons and his first single was released when he was fourteen years old. He was a member of Johnny and The Cellar Rockers, The Hunters and Brainbox, and joined the Thijs van Leer Trio in late 1969. They continued under the name Focus and scored a few worldwide hits in the seventies. In 1973 Akkerman was chosen 'Best Guitarist in The World' by the readers of the UK magazine, Melody Maker. His standing was such that he teamed up with manufacturer Framus to produce one of the first 'signature' guitar models.

In 1976 Akkerman left Focus and continued his solo career, and collaborations with other musicians. In 1973 Akkerman contributed to the album of his former Brainbox companion Kaz Lux ('I'm the worst partner I know'), who in turn contributed to the Eli (1976) and Transparental (1980) albums.

A reunion with Thijs van Leer in 1985 turned out to be unsuccessful. He continued to produce several albums. At the same time he was active as a session musician with André Hazes and others. He also played alongside Vlatko Stefanovski, Alan Price, Herman Brood, Peter Banks, Charlie Byrd, Ice-T, Paco De Lucia, and B.B. King.

In 1992 he was involved in a serious car accident, but resumed playing in 1993. In the late 1990s, after an absence of nearly 20 years, he was persuaded to tour the UK again and has continued to do so on a regular basis. He writes for the Dutch magazine, GitaarPlus.

Discography

Talent for Sale - 1968

Profile - 1972

Tabernakel - 1973

Eli (with Kaz Lux) - 1976

Jan Akkerman - 1977

Aranjuez (with Claus Ogerman) - 1978

Live - 1978

Jan Akkerman 3 - 1979

The Best of Jan Akkerman and Friends - 1979

Transparental (with Kaz Lux) - 1980

Oil In The Family - 1980

Pleasure Point - 1982

Can't Stand Noise - 1983

From the Basement - 1984

It Could Happen To You - 1985

The Complete Guitarist - 1986

The Noise Of Art - 1990

Guitar Special - 1991

Puccini's Café - 1993

Blues Hearts - 1994

The Guitar Player - 1996

Focus in Time - 1996

10,000 Clowns On A Rainy Day - 1997

Live at the Priory - 1998

Passion - 1998

Live at Alexander's - 1999

C.U. - 2003

Vlatko Stefanovski - Thunder From the Blue Sky - 2008

1977: Tony Scott Featuring Jan Akkerman - "Meditation" - (Polydor Records)

References

David Randall: in & out of focus - the music of Jan Akkerman & focus. SAF Publishing, London, 2002. ISBN 0-946719-44-6

Brigitte Tast, Hans-Juergen Tast: „be bop” - Die Wilhelmshöhe rockt. Disco und Konzerte in der Hölle. Verlag Gebrüder Gerstenberg GmbH & Co. KG, Hildesheim 2007, ISBN 978-3-8067-8589-0.

Brigitte Tast, Hans-Juergen Tast: „be bop” - Rock-Tempel & Nachtasyl - Band 2 zur Legende. Hildesheim: Verlag Gebr. Gerstenberg 2009. ISBN 978-3-8067-8733-7.

External links

Jan Akkerman (official website)

Ode to a guitarist (by Forward Magazine)

FOCUS Tribute Site

Category:1946 births Category:Living people Category:Dutch rock guitarists Category:Jazz fusion guitarists Category:Lead guitarists Category:People from Amsterdam Category:Harvest Records artists

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Name	Baudouin I
Succession	King of the Belgians
Imgw	200
Reign	17 July 1951 – 31 July 1993 ()
Predecessor	Leopold III
Successor	Albert II
Spouse	Fabiola de Mora y Aragón
House	House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Full name	Baldwin Albert Charles Leopold Axel Maria Gustaf
Father	Leopold III of Belgium
Mother	Astrid of Sweden
Date of birth	September 07, 1930
Place of birth	Laeken, Belgium
Date of death	July 31, 1993
Place of death	Motril, Spain

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Baudouin I ( (Dutch pronounciation: [baʊdəʋɛɪn ɑlbərt kɑrəl leopɔlt ɑksəl mɑri ɣʏstaf vɑn bɛlɣɪe]), (French pronounciation: [bodwɛ̃ albɛʁ ʃaʁl leopɔld aksɛl maʁi gystav də bɛlʒik]) ) (7 September 1930 – 31 July 1993) reigned as King of the Belgians, following his father's abdication, from 1951 until his death in 1993. He was the eldest son of King Leopold III (1901–1983) and his first wife, Princess Astrid of Sweden (1905–1935). Having had no children, the crown passed on to his brother, Albert II of Belgium, upon his death. He is the first cousin of King Harald V of Norway , Princess Astrid of Norway, and Princess Ragnhild of Norway. Baudouin is the French form of his name, the form most commonly used outside Belgium; his Dutch name is Boudewijn. Very rarely, his name is anglicized as Baldwin.

Ascent to the throne

Baudouin was born in Stuyvenberg Castle, near Laeken, Brussels, in Belgium. On 1 August 1950 his father King Leopold III requested the Belgian Government and the Parliament to approve a law delegating his royal powers to his son, Prince Baudouin, who took the constitutional oath before the United Chambers of the Belgian Parliament as Prince Royal on 11 August 1950. He ascended the throne and became the fifth King of the Belgians upon taking the constitutional oath on 17 July 1951, one day following his father's abdication.

The Congolese called the young king Mwana Kitoko ("beautiful boy"), which however the Belgian authorities tried to change into Bwana Kitoko, or "beautiful, noble man."

Part of Leopold III's unpopularity was the result of a second marriage in 1941 to Mary Lilian Baels, an English-born Belgian commoner, later known as Princess de Réthy. More controversial had been Leopold's decision to surrender to Nazi Germany during World War II, when Belgium was invaded in 1940; many Belgians questioned his loyalties, but a commission of inquiry exonerated him of treason after World War II. Though reinstated in a plebiscite, the controversy surrounding Leopold led to his abdication.

Marriage

On 15 December 1960, Baudouin was married in Brussels to the aristocrat socialite Her Excellency Doña Fabiola Fernanda María de las Victorias Antonia Adelaida de Mora y Aragón, the third daughter of Don Gonzalo de Mora y Fernández, Riera y del Olmo, Marquess of Casa Riera, 2nd Count of Mora (1887—1957) and his wife, Blanca de Aragón y Carrillo de Albornoz, Barroeta-Aldamar y Elio, Marchioness of Casa Riera, 2nd Countess of Mora (1892—1981). She is the sister of the late Count Jaime de Mora y Aragón, a Spanish actor and jet-set playboy. Queen Fabiola was a former nurse and a writer of children's stories.

The King and Queen had no children; all of the Queen's five pregnancies ended in miscarriage.

Notable events

During Baudouin's reign the colony of Belgian Congo was given its independence, and the King personally attended the festivities; he gave a speech that was widely seen as insensitive to the atrocities in the Congo, and the speech received a blistering response by Congolese Prime Minister Patrice Lumumba, who shortly thereafter was assassinated by Belgian agents, with indirect US support.

In 1976, on the 25th anniversary of Baudouin's accession, the King Baudouin Foundation was formed, with the aim of improving the living conditions of the Belgian people.

He was the 1,176th Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece in Spain in 1960 and the 930th Knight of the Order of the Garter.

In 1985, he was presented with photographs taken during World War II by Glenn Kappelman, a member of the 106th Cavalry Group which had freed the Royal Family from German captivity in May 1945. Baudouin was fourteen years old at the time when the American soldiers learned that the family was being held at a villa near Strobl, Austria.

Religious influences

Baudouin was a devout Roman Catholic. Through the influence of Leo Cardinal Suenens, Baudouin participated in the growing Catholic Charismatic Renewal and regularly went on pilgrimages to the French shrine of Paray-le-Monial.

In 1990, when a law submitted by Roger Lallemand and Lucienne Herman-Michielsens, liberalising Belgium's abortion laws, was approved by Parliament, he refused to give Royal Assent to the bill. This was unprecedented; although Baudoin was nominally Belgium's chief executive, Royal Assent has long been a formality (as is the case in most constitutional and popular monarchies). However, Baudouin felt that it wasn't fair that the king was the only person in the country without the right to freedom of conscience. Due to his religious convictions, Baudouin asked the Government to declare him temporarily unable to reign so that he could avoid signing the measure into law. The Government under Wilfried Martens complied with his request on 4 April 1990. According to the provisions of the Belgian Constitution, in the event the King is temporarily unable to reign, the Government as a whole fulfills the role of Head of State. All members of the Government signed the bill, and the next day (5 April 1990) the Government declared that Baudouin was capable of reigning again.

Death, succession, and legacy

Baudouin reigned for 42 years until dying of heart failure on 31 July 1993 in the Villa Astrida in Motril, in the south of Spain. His death was unexpected, and sent much of Belgium into a period of deep mourning. It was a mark of great affection and respect for King Baudouin that Queen Elizabeth II attended the funeral in person; by tradition the British monarch attends only those funerals which are of close family members (they were only third cousins) or such politicians as prime ministers who die while in office. He was returned to Brussels on 1 August 1993. King Baudouin was interred in the royal vault at the Church of Our Lady of Laeken, Brussels, Belgium.

Baudouin was succeeded by his younger brother, who became King Albert II.

Ancestry

See also

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Kings of Belgium family tree

Crown Council of Belgium

Royal Trust

Herman Liebaers (Marshal of the Royal Household)

André Molitor (private secretary)

Jacques van Ypersele de Strihou (private secretary)

References

Bibliography

A. Molitor, La fonction royale en Belgique, Brussels, 1979

J.Stengers, De koningen der Belgen. Van Leopold I tot Albert II, Leuven, 1997.

Kardinaal Suenens, Koning Boudewijn. Het getuigenis van een leven, Leuven, 1995.

Kerstrede 18.12.1975, (ed.V.Neels), Wij Boudewijn, Koning der Belgen. Het politiek, sociaal en moreel testament van een nobel vorst, deel II, Gent, 1996.

H. le Paige (dir.), Questions royales, Réflexions à propos de la mort d'un roi et sur la médiatisation de l'évènement, Brussels, 1994.

External links

Official biography from the Belgian Royal Family website

Royal House of Belgium

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