Kane (Dutch band)
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Kane is a Dutch
rock band
. The group consists of the two original members, Dinand Woesthoff
(lead vocals) and Dennis van Leeuwen (guitar
). Their music can be described as "guitar
rock
". The band is inspired by U2
, Pearl Jam
, Queen
and Nirvana
.
in 1999, when Dinand and Dennis met each other in a beach cafe where they were both working at that time. Both had a passion for music and it did not take long before they were discovered in a small cafe where they performed for a very small audience.
The breakthrough came in the summer of 1999 with the song "Where Do I Go Now". The CD As Long as You Want This from 1999 was on the album hit list for 1.5 years and achieved double platinum
sales. With the second album from 2001, called So Glad You Made It the group scored several big hits. One of the biggest hit singles was "Let It Be".
In the following years Kane received some big awards, including TMF
awards , MTV Europe music awards
and an Edison. Kane performed at big festivals like Parkpop
and Pinkpop
.
Dinands wife was Guusje Nederhorst
. She died from breast cancer
on 29 January 2004. The couple's son is Dean Maddy Woesthoff. Dinand devoted the song "Dreamer" to his beloved wife. This single immediately reached the number 1 chart position and became the best selling single of 2004.
Kane tried to make a career abroad, but with only little success in Belgium
and a #38 UK chart position for "Rain Down on Me", it didn't go too well. The fact that there's an American
southern rock
band called Kane
and that the name of English
piano rock band Keane resembles Kane's didn't do them much good either.
The third album of the band, Fearless, came out of nowhere and hit #1 on the Dutch charts. The first 2 singles, "Something to Say" and "Fearless" came in at #1 too.
On August 13, 2005 the band did an open-air performance on the beach of Almere
. It was visited by over 30.000 people. A few days before, the band performed in front of 1500 people in Paradiso
, Amsterdam. In December 2005 Kane ended the year with a performance in Ahoy Rotterdam.
At the end of 2004 the bass player Dion Murdock left the band . He wanted to play drums for the Dutch band Intwine
. Murdock was replaced by Yolanda Charles, who played for the band of Robbie Williams
. She took control of the album Fearless and was hired only to make this album. Bassist Manuel Hugas who played on the CD/DVD February too, now plays for Kane, but he only plays bass at live concerts.
All guest musicians on February
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
rock band
Rock Band
Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV Games and Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock Band series. The PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions were released in the United States on November 20, 2007, while the PlayStation 2 version was...
. The group consists of the two original members, Dinand Woesthoff
Dinand Woesthoff
Marco Frank Ferdinand "Dinand" Woesthoff is a Dutch singer of Indo heritage.He is the lead singer of the Dutch band Kane...
(lead vocals) and Dennis van Leeuwen (guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
). Their music can be described as "guitar
Guitar
The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
rock
Rock music
Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed during and after the 1960s, particularly in the United Kingdom and the United States. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, itself heavily influenced by rhythm and blues and country music...
". The band is inspired by U2
U2
U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...
, Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam
Pearl Jam is an American rock band that formed in Seattle, Washington, in 1990. Since its inception, the band's line-up has included Eddie Vedder , Jeff Ament , Stone Gossard , and Mike McCready...
, Queen
Queen (band)
Queen are a British rock band formed in London in 1971, originally consisting of Freddie Mercury , Brian May , John Deacon , and Roger Taylor...
and Nirvana
Nirvana (band)
Nirvana was an American rock band that was formed by singer/guitarist Kurt Cobain and bassist Krist Novoselic in Aberdeen, Washington in 1987...
.
Biography
The group started in The HagueThe Hague
The Hague is the capital city of the province of South Holland in the Netherlands. With a population of 500,000 inhabitants , it is the third largest city of the Netherlands, after Amsterdam and Rotterdam...
in 1999, when Dinand and Dennis met each other in a beach cafe where they were both working at that time. Both had a passion for music and it did not take long before they were discovered in a small cafe where they performed for a very small audience.
The breakthrough came in the summer of 1999 with the song "Where Do I Go Now". The CD As Long as You Want This from 1999 was on the album hit list for 1.5 years and achieved double platinum
Platinum
Platinum is a chemical element with the chemical symbol Pt and an atomic number of 78. Its name is derived from the Spanish term platina del Pinto, which is literally translated into "little silver of the Pinto River." It is a dense, malleable, ductile, precious, gray-white transition metal...
sales. With the second album from 2001, called So Glad You Made It the group scored several big hits. One of the biggest hit singles was "Let It Be".
In the following years Kane received some big awards, including TMF
TMF Nederland
TMF was a 24-hour music channel operated by Viacom International Media Networks in the Netherlands. The channel ceased operating on September 1, 2011. The channels operations were based in Amsterdam. The channel was previously known as TMF6 and TMF9 respectively.- History :TMF was launched on May...
awards , MTV Europe music awards
MTV Europe Music Awards
The MTV Europe Music Awards were established in 1994 by MTV Networks Europe to celebrate the most popular music videos in Europe. Originally beginning as an alternative to the American MTV Video Music Awards, the MTV Europe Music Awards is today a popular celebration of what MTV viewers consider...
and an Edison. Kane performed at big festivals like Parkpop
Parkpop
The Parkpop festival is a free music festival held annually on the last Sunday of June in the city of The Hague, The Netherlands/Holland.It was first held in 1981 and attended by 35,000 visitors. Today up to 350,000 people visit the festival every year. They held the title for largest free pop...
and Pinkpop
Pinkpop
Pinkpop Festival, or Pinkpop for short, is an annual festival held at Landgraaf, Netherlands. It is held annually on the Pentecost weekend...
.
Dinands wife was Guusje Nederhorst
Guusje Nederhorst
Barbara Augustine Woesthoff-Nederhorst was a Dutch actress and singer....
. She died from breast cancer
Cancer
Cancer , known medically as a malignant neoplasm, is a large group of different diseases, all involving unregulated cell growth. In cancer, cells divide and grow uncontrollably, forming malignant tumors, and invade nearby parts of the body. The cancer may also spread to more distant parts of the...
on 29 January 2004. The couple's son is Dean Maddy Woesthoff. Dinand devoted the song "Dreamer" to his beloved wife. This single immediately reached the number 1 chart position and became the best selling single of 2004.
Kane tried to make a career abroad, but with only little success in Belgium
Belgium
Belgium , officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a federal state in Western Europe. It is a founding member of the European Union and hosts the EU's headquarters, and those of several other major international organisations such as NATO.Belgium is also a member of, or affiliated to, many...
and a #38 UK chart position for "Rain Down on Me", it didn't go too well. The fact that there's an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
southern rock
Southern rock
Southern rock is a subgenre of rock music, and genre of Americana. It developed in the Southern United States from rock and roll, country music, and blues, and is focused generally on electric guitar and vocals...
band called Kane
Kane (US band)
Kane is an American country rock, southern rock, and Americana band that was formed in 1998 in Los Angeles, California fronted by actor Christian Kane. The band has released two successful independent albums and toured both the U.S. and Europe.-History:...
and that the name of English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
piano rock band Keane resembles Kane's didn't do them much good either.
The third album of the band, Fearless, came out of nowhere and hit #1 on the Dutch charts. The first 2 singles, "Something to Say" and "Fearless" came in at #1 too.
On August 13, 2005 the band did an open-air performance on the beach of Almere
Almere
Almere is a planned city and municipality in the province of Flevoland, the Netherlands, bordering Lelystad and Zeewolde. The municipality of Almere comprises the districts Almere Stad, Almere Haven, Almere Buiten, Almere Hout, Almere Poort and Almere Pampus .Almere is the youngest city in the...
. It was visited by over 30.000 people. A few days before, the band performed in front of 1500 people in Paradiso
Paradiso (Amsterdam)
Paradiso is an iconic rock music venue and cultural center in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.-History:It is housed in a converted former church building that dates from the nineteenth century and that was used until 1965 as the meeting hall for a liberal Dutch religious group known as the "Vrije...
, Amsterdam. In December 2005 Kane ended the year with a performance in Ahoy Rotterdam.
Band members
Kane has a long history of changes in the band formation. Since the foundation in 1998 the group has had 19 different band members, although some of those members only played once for recording the album February.At the end of 2004 the bass player Dion Murdock left the band . He wanted to play drums for the Dutch band Intwine
Intwine
Intwine was a Dutch rock band formed by five students of the Tilburg Rockacademie in 2001.The band received nationwide notoriety in the Netherlands after lead singer Roger Peterson's participation in the Idols talent show in 2002. Subsequently, Intwine charted the Dutch Top 40 five times, with...
. Murdock was replaced by Yolanda Charles, who played for the band of Robbie Williams
Robbie Williams
Robert Peter "Robbie" Williams is an English singer-songwriter, vocal coach and occasional actor. He is a member of the pop group Take That. Williams rose to fame in the band's first run in the early- to mid-1990s. After many disagreements with the management and certain group members, Williams...
. She took control of the album Fearless and was hired only to make this album. Bassist Manuel Hugas who played on the CD/DVD February too, now plays for Kane, but he only plays bass at live concerts.
Guitars
- Dennis van Leeuwen (current)
- Robin Berlin (current)
- Paul Jan Bakker (fired)
- Tony Cornelissen (left the band)
Bass
- Ivo Severijns (current)
- Manuel Hugas (current but only on live performances)
- Yolanda Charles (only for studio-recording of Fearless)
- Dion Murdoch (left the band)
- Aram Kersbergen (left the band)
- Matto Kranenburg (fired)
Drummers
- Joost Kroon (current)
- Martijn Bosman (left the band)
- André Kemp (left the band)
- Cyril Directie (left the band)
- Sammy de Fretes (original drummer, never recorded)
Keyboardists
- Nico Brandsen (current)
- Ronald Kool (left the band)
- Ricky van Poppel (left the band)
Miscellaneous
- Hans Eijkenaar (only drummed on the first album As Long as You Want This)
- Cor Mutsers (guitars)
- Wiboud Burkens (piano)
- Mike Booth (trumpet)
- Peter Lieberom (saxophone)
All guest musicians on February
Studio albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NL MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
BEL Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
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| As Long as You Want This |
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2 | — |
NVPI The NVPI is the Dutch tradeassociation of the entertainment industry... : 2× Platinum |
| With or Without You With or Without You (Kane album) With or Without You is a live CD/DVD U2 tribute album recorded by the Dutch band Kane. The DVD was filmed on September 20, 2000 at Plan C in Rotterdam. The CD was recorded a day later at Paridiso, Amsterdam... |
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22 | — |
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| So Glad You Made It |
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2 | — |
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| What If |
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1 | 24 |
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| Fearless |
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1 | 9 |
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| Everything You Want |
Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... / KANE LP record The LP, or long-playing microgroove record, is a format for phonograph records, an analog sound storage medium. Introduced by Columbia Records in 1948, it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry... |
1 | 25 |
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| No Surrender |
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2 | 89 |
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Live albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| NL MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
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| February |
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2 | |
| De Kuip Live |
Universal Music Group Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations... |
21 | |
Compilation albums
| Title | Album details | Peak chart positions | Certifications |
|---|---|---|---|
| NL MegaCharts MegaCharts is responsible for the composition and exploitation of a broad collection of official charts in the Netherlands, of which the Mega Top 50 and the Mega Album Top 100 are the most known ones. Mega Charts also provides information to the Stichting Nederlandse Top 40, of which the Dutch Top... |
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| Singles Only |
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Singles
| Single | Year | Peak chart positions | Certifications | Album | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
Single Top 100 |
BEL Ultratop Ultratop is an organization which generates and publishes the official record charts in Belgium, and it is also the name of most of those charts... |
UK UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ... |
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| "Where Do I Go Now" | 1999 | 29 | 45 | — | — | As Long as You Want This | ||||||||
| "Damn Those Eyes" | 26 | 30 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "I Will Keep My Head Down" | 2000 | 12 | 20 | — | — | |||||||||
| "Can You Handle Me" | 10 | 45 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "So Glad You Made It" | 2001 | 4 | 7 | — | — | So Glad You Made It | ||||||||
| "Let It Be" | 10 | 17 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Rain Down on Me" | 2002 | 14 | 29 | — | — | |||||||||
| "Hold on to the World" | 25 | 19 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "My Best Wasn't Good Enough" | 2003 | 5 | 3 | — | — | What If | ||||||||
| "Before You Let Me Go" (with Ilse DeLange Ilse DeLange Ilse Annoeska de Lange is a Dutch country and pop singer, better known as Ilse DeLange .-Biography:... ) |
4 | 3 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Rain Down on Me (Tiësto Remix)" | 6 | 1 | — | |||||||||||
| "Dreamer (Gussie's Song)" (Dinand Woesthoff Dinand Woesthoff Marco Frank Ferdinand "Dinand" Woesthoff is a Dutch singer of Indo heritage.He is the lead singer of the Dutch band Kane... ) |
2004 | 1 | 1 | — | — | Fearless | ||||||||
| "Can You Handle Me" | — | — | 52 | — | What If | |||||||||
| "Rain Down on Me" | — | — | — | 38 | ||||||||||
| "Something to Say" | 2005 | 1 | 1 | 33 | — | Fearless | ||||||||
| "Fearless" | 1 | 1 | 57 | — | ||||||||||
| "All I Can Do" | 12 | 9 | 59 | — | ||||||||||
| "Believe It" | 2006 | 4 | 4 | 58 | — | |||||||||
| "Catwalk Criminal" | 2008 | 4 | 2 | — | — | Everything You Want | ||||||||
| "Shot of a Gun" | 1 | 2 | 52 | — | ||||||||||
| "Wanna Make It Happen" | 34 | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "It's London Calling" | 10 | 25 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "No Surrender" | 2009 | 3 | 1 | — | — | No Surrender | ||||||||
| "No Surrender (Live)" (with Carice van Houten) |
2010 | — | — | |||||||||||
| "Love Over Healing" | 20 | 26 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "In Over My Head" | 27 | 43 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "Scream" | 50 | — | — | — | ||||||||||
| "High Places" (with Ilse DeLange Ilse DeLange Ilse Annoeska de Lange is a Dutch country and pop singer, better known as Ilse DeLange .-Biography:... ) |
13 | 12 | — | — | ||||||||||
| "—" denotes single that did not chart or was not released | ||||||||||||||
Other charted songs
| Song | Year | Dutch Top 40 Dutch Top 40 The Dutch Top 40 is a weekly music chart, which started as the "Veronica Top 40", because the offshore radio station Radio Veronica was the first to introduce it. It remained "The Veronica Top 40" until 1974, when the station was forced to stop broadcasting... |
Album |
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| "My Heart's Desire" | 2004 | 69 | February |