Ruud Slakhorst | Zanger

In high school, Maerlant Lyceum in The Hague, I was told by my music teacher that I am a-musically used to be. And although musical notation didn't change much for me than sticks with flags and balls, and certainly none music .., I did not accept that. The first electric guitar was bought, the old-fashioned tape recorder was started and from the first false series of notes became everything included. Never class.

It was the start of all kinds of bands. Inspired through Genesis and Yes I played guitar, not well, but like you compose everything yourself then you make sure that everything is inside your own possibilities. That's how I went from guitar to bass guitar, and from bass guitar to keyboards. Until I went to sing. That turned out to suit me much more than playing of an instrument.

Ik became a singer in bands as 'Brancard', 'Ice on Fire', Big Deal 'and for a long time at Edge Of Sanity (not to be confused with the metal band from Scandinavia). The last band existed for about 15 years, and highlights were performances at the Boerderij, Westerpop and Deliver of the tune for a TV series. The music was a mix of Toto, Yes and Genesis and always got surprisingly good live receive. However, there was never enough within the band drive to arrange gigs and because of this was on one particular moment of inspiration! Then without a band for a while. No music for a while. After 15 years a break was in order. Then am I start thinking about what kind of music I actually prefer wanted to make, and those are great, lyrical pieces with beautiful vocal lines. I remembered Plackband. That was such a band that such made music. I saw that it was now called PBII and the it seemed for a while that I was going to be on the CD Plastic Soup singing, not least because the musical click with the band was right there. However, that project was already so far claimed that that was actually no longer possible.

Fortunately for the next project I got 1000Wishes approached. Beautiful musical pieces were already there written and it was a fantastic one for me challenge to come up with lyrics and vocal lines. A great creative process followed in which the music files were sent back and forth and at home by all the musicians were completed. Ultimately, everything is along with it Hofstads Youth Orchestra recorded in Holland Spoor studio where Chris Muller has made a great CD of it, together with the band. Then we enter the rock opera Sold out theaters and I knew that was a wish was fulfilled.

After 1000Wishes, we thought a long time about another project. We wanted a social theme and we have a lot review topics. When we last We knew we saw Wubbo's farewell speech participate. For the lyrics I'm in the environment as well climate dived. An educational period. Of course first again entered the studio with Chris and then creating the show. And now another wish was fulfilled for a theater tour through the whole country. We have our message in 25 theaters can bring. Now we are already working on a sequel to 1000Wishes, that performance was too good to be performed only 5 times to be.