Carike Keuzenkamp

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Carike Keuzenkamp (born March 3, 1947 in The Hague , Netherlands , as Elizabeth Maria Magdalena Keuzenkamp ; real name Carike Elizabeth Maria Magdalena van Zyl Keuzenkamp ) is a South African pop singer of Dutch origin. Over the course of her 50-year career, she recorded songs in Afrikaans , German and English .

life and career

Elizabeth Keuzenkamp came to South Africa as a child. In 1968 she graduated from the University of Pretoria . The year before that, she was named Carike Keuzenkamp in Jamie Uys ' film Die professor en die prikkelpop (1967), where she sang the song Timothy . Her first studio album The Charm of Carike was released shortly afterwards and in 1969 Almal se keuse and Carike followed , where she sang in German for the first time. These were cover versions of, among others, Boy come back soon and I'll build you a lock and I have to .

In the 1970s she increasingly sang children's songs and was later also produced by Anton Goosen and Ralph Siegel . Among other things, she sang the Afrikaans version of the theme song of the anime series Heidi . In 1979 the Anton Goosen produced album Byerboerwa , which contained some of their greatest hits, such as The Byerboerwa . In 1987, the album was released Ek sing that the written by Ralph Siegel and produced song Dis' n country contained, which was designed as a hymn to South Africa and a cover of of Nicole rehearsed the song Let me just alone was.

Despite her collaboration with sometimes oppositional songwriters such as Anton Goosen, Carike Keuzenkamp was known in the 1980s as a line-loyal pop singer such as Bles Bridges , Rina Hugo and Anneli van Rooyen , with whom she also appeared in part. The video for Dis' n land showed a glorified image of South Africa, including images of the Air Force in action, a black couple dancing and impoverished farmers in Boland .

Discography (selection)

  • The Charm of Carike (1967)
  • Almal se keuse (1969)
  • Carike (1969)
  • Gone Like the Wind (1970)
  • Reëndruppeltjies (1971)
  • Byerboerwa (1979)
  • Carike (1980)
  • The Blye Boodskaptrein (1984)
  • Sing geestelike nursery rhymejies (1984)
  • Ek sing (1987)
  • Saam met jou (1988)
  • Onthou jy nog ... (1989)
  • Greatest hits (1990)
  • Stap Saam Met My (1991)

Honors

Individual evidence

  1. a b Carike Keuzenkamp | Who's Who SA. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 6, 2018 ; accessed on March 5, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / whoswho.co.za
  2. Jesse James: Daar's n Land - Carike Kuezenkamp. December 25, 2008, accessed March 12, 2018 .
  3. Schalk van der Merwe: On Record: Music and society in recorded popular Afrikaans music records, 1900 - 2015 . AFRICAN SUN MeDIA, 2017, ISBN 978-1-928357-11-7 ( google.dk [accessed March 12, 2018]).
  4. Carike Keuzenkamp Discography - Vinyl Albums - South Africa - Vinyl Albums. Retrieved March 5, 2018 .