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589. Percussionist Roël Calister
Roel Calister.
Roël Calister was raised on a steady diet of percussion. Cardboard boxes, Nido powdered milk cans, buckets of plastic… no household object was spared. His father would saw sticks out of old brooms and he would spend hours pounding away in his backyard after school. He still remembers the Tumbas of the early 80s and 90s by heart. He received his first drum set at 12, but wasn’t allowed to play gigs until he turned 16. “My mother was strict, that’s why I’m so disciplined.” Nowadays Roël finds his heart divided between the Caribbean and Europe, having lived in the Netherlands since 1996. But rather than suffering from identity crisis, he has managed to fuse his two cultural affinities into an utterly unique new musical genre he calls “Tambutronic”. Google search and you’ll find over 5,000 references to Tambutronic, some even draw comparisons to global sensations M.I.A and Major Lazer… and if Roël has his way that number will grow exponentially over the next few years.
A natural storyteller as much as percussionist, when you speak to Roël you’ll notice that he uses the Papiamentu word “anto” (= and then) like a time signature throughout his speech. But despite being passionate about music, he decided to study
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Izaline Calister
Dutch-Curaçaoan singer and songwriter
Izaline Calister | |
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Calister at Pol's Place For Jazz Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands July 5, 2009 | |
| Birth name | Izaline Francisca Juanita Calister |
| Born | (1969-03-09) March 9, 1969 (age 55) Curaçao |
| Genres | Jazz, Calypso |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, singer, songwriter |
| Instrument | Vocals |
| Website | izalinecalister.com |
Musical artist
Izaline Francisca Juanita Calister (born March 9, 1969) is a Dutch-Curaçaoan singer-songwriter.
Growing up in her native Curaçao for eighteen years, Calister moved to Groningen, the Netherlands, where she studied at the Prince Claus Conservatoire and continues to live.
Calister's music combines the Calypso influences of her native Curaçao with jazz, creating a unique blend of music. These influences and musical features consist of rhythms, dances and songs from the island, of which she adapts and composes to accommodate her own unique style.
Singing in her native language of Papiamentu, Calister feels that as native speaker of such a unique yet widely unexposed language to the international community, a language also of a very select group of users, it is her duty to be an ambassador of her language.
She performs at venues and festivals around the world.
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