After a sunny summer day on the beach, I took the train home. My Music app suggested me to listen to “Noodzakelijk Verdriet” bij Froukje. I remember listening to the entire album, and feeling deeply: but THIS is what I want to do right now.
This has been the beginning of a little fire that ignited within me. I felt I wanted to make music, but also “that I’m not allowed to do so” (actually I grew up in a musical family and I’ve been playing piano and singing already since childhood, until I forgot about this all during my teenage years).
Eventhough a mean voice in my head told me I shouldn’t make music I persevered, and thanks to my dear friend Melissa Robinson who told me: Rhodé, make music, please, do it! Life’s too short to not do it! I started the journey of writing songs.
What in this world is a more powerful expression than music? I don’t know. What I am searching for in my art is to move myself, and then, from my heart to yours, to move you.
It’s a very exciting process in which lots of the disciplines I love and practice come together: writing, expressing, creating a visual world, singing and playing piano.
This year, 27th July, I released my first single. Next year, 5th of April, I will release my first EP. Do you want to stay up to date about this exciting creative process? Make sure to follow me on my Instagram page. Stay tuned!
Rhodé Tavenier 