CT grows up in a musical home in Friesland in the rural north of Holland. Playing music is an integral part of family life: every member plays the piano and her father can coax a tune out of any instrument. CT and her older sister both play the guitar and sing two-part harmonies.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to sing like Aretha Franklin, write like Carole King and then get Jimi Hendrix to play the guitar. In the first band I joined I was a back-up singer. That is where I learned to understand vocal colours and harmonies.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n She moves to Groningen and joins a range of local bands for the next four years. She takes a vocal training course at the Music Academy in Leeuwarden. While on tour with her band in Tokyo she meets Ipso Facto, a band from the US who have just signed with Epic Records. CT packs her bags, moves to \u201cPrince Town\u201d Minneapolis and subsequently tours the USA with Ipso Facto for a year. Working with an American band and playing back-to-back shows across the Mid-West provide her with a wealth of knowledge and experience that wouldn\u2019t have been available to her back home.<\/p>\n \u201cIn Minneapolis I learned about groove and what music is really about for me.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n When she returns home, CT brings the soul and gospel back with her and sets out to write songs with husband Klaas Boon in their private studio. They form a band called Homebase, but, after the passing of Klaas, songwriting becomes a new quest all over again. Klaas\u2019 trademark guitar influences begin to fade away and CT develops her own a style.<\/p>\n \u201cThe soul and gospel influences are vital to my music. With gospel it\u2019s not so much the religion thing but the conviction and the passion of the singing, the raw emotion of it all.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n \u201cTo me, music is rhythm and colour. Together with my story I use that to build songs. My songs express my own feelings; they\u2019re personal stories, but expressed in a way that leaves room for personal interpretation to any listener. I am inspired by everything I experience, see, hear or read. I don\u2019t have any preconceived ideas or subjects. Whatever concerns me at a particular time, that\u2019s what I sing about.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n CT keeps played in several bands, notably Superfly<\/strong> and B-Slick, <\/strong>\u00a0TCQ<\/strong> (The Caml Quartet), a pop\/soul quartet, she joined a Flower Power theatre show<\/strong>, traveled and performed across the globe (America, Oman, Syria and Brunei <\/strong>)Dr. Remko\u2019s Hoodoo Voodoo Experience<\/strong>, a ten-piece New Orleans funk\/soul band, Electric Fiesta<\/strong>, a funk\/soul\/rock collective from Groningen, Jammah Tammah ( Groove Express )<\/strong><\/p>\n Now she has her own band: a mixture of soul, country, funky…..just a groovy melting pot.<\/p>\n CT & The Sublimes: <\/strong>CT : keys & vocals,\u00a0 Hette Gubbels: guitar\/bass & vocals, Koen Jongsma: guitar\/bass & vocals, Han Latupeirissa : small drums, percussion, conga & cajon<\/p>\n
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