Twarres
Twarres was originally a folk pop duo from the Netherlands . Since 2011, however, the main actor Mirjam Timmer has continued to perform as a solo artist under this name. The Frisian word “twa” means “two”, “twaris” means “twice”. The modification in "Twarres" is an invention. For the two members it was a happy coincidence that in Russian the same sounding “towarisch” ( товарищ , továrišč - [tɐˈvarʲɪɕː]) means German : comrade .
history
The toddler Mirjam Timmer and the one year older Johan van der Veen lived in the village of Warga near the Frisian capital Leeuwarden only a few houses apart. They often played together and enjoyed singing. At the age of five, Mirjam was already scratching around on her grandparents' old guitar . But it didn't play endlessly, it should always result in a song. The texts that she memorized in order to be able to repeat them revolved around the cat Willy at the time. So she gradually taught herself to play the guitar without ever having learned to read music. To a certain extent, the lecture by Muss i, accompanied by a classmate on guitar and keyboard , was her first appearance at school. Shortly afterwards, still a first grader , she sang with Johan in a school performance.
She had harmonized so well with van der Veen over the years that both of them took part in talent shows and singing competitions from September 1998. Van der Veen had just graduated from high school with a bang, quit his apprenticeship as a cook and was a waiter . At the Liet '99 competition festival in the province of Friesland, they won the audience award and the second jury award for Wêr Bisto . Seventeen-year-old Timmer had only just written the song about missing a friend in Frisian dialect who had moved away overnight. The award meant that the song would be introduced to a wider audience on television programs and as a single . The single release on September 16, 2000 did not make it a chart success . The invitations to television were much more effective, as this resulted in a contract with the label giant EMI , which prompted a new recording of the song. This climbed to the top of the Dutch charts in November 2000 and had an impact even in the neighboring Belgian regions of Flanders (# 2) and Wallonia (top ten). With a slight delay, Belgium also recorded Wêr Bisto at number one in December . On June 25, 2001, the debut album Stream was released , which contains two songs in Frisian and eight in English in addition to an instrumental piece . The word “stream” has the same meaning in both languages. With number one positions in the Netherlands and Belgium, it seamlessly continued the success of the single, which cannot be said of the follow-up album CD² , which was released in October 2002 . The Twarres duo is then supported by a band consisting of Gregor Hamilton (keyboards), Peter Krako (guitar), Serge Bredewold ( bass ), Sietse Huisman ( drums ) and Yfke de Jong ( violin ). Timmer next devoted himself to writing five songs for a play performed in Friesland . Spread over 2003, Timmer and van der Veen performed 80 times in the Netherlands and Belgium. On December 21, 2003 they gave their last concert; the previously agreed mutual separation became effective. Van der Veen planned a transition into the musical field , while Timmer wanted to concentrate on a solo career.
In 2006 Timmer released the album Files from London under the name "MIR" . In the same year it was announced that 2007 would be a reunion of Twarres, but nothing came of it because van der Veen had vocal cord problems. These turned out to be a rare nervous disease that forced him to give up forever. Auke Busman, who made his live debut on September 14, 2007, replaced him, but the new constellation only worked for a short time. In the late summer of 2009, a Dutch radio station held a casting to find a new duet partner for Timmer. The two original members sat on the jury and on September 11th decided Joost Bloemendal from Utrecht to succeed van der Veens. The unconditional combination lasted until March 2011. After that, Timmer finally decided against a resurrection of the Twarres duo, but kept the name as a solo artist and surrounded herself with contract musicians.
Discography
Albums
| year | title |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
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| 2001 | Stream |
NL1  (39 weeks)NL |
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| 2002 | CD² |
NL29 (13 weeks) NL |
More albums
- 1999: Wêr Bisto (demo CD)
Singles
| year | Title album |
Top ranking, total weeks, awardChartsChart placements (Year, title, album , rankings, weeks, awards, notes) |
Remarks |
|---|---|---|---|
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NL
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| 2001 | Wêr Bisto Stream |
NL1 (21 weeks)NL |
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| She couldn't laugh stream |
NL4 (12 weeks) NL |
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| Children Stream |
NL20 (6 weeks) NL |
More singles
- 2001: This Is How It Is (only in Belgium)
- 2002: I Need to Know
- 2003: Tell Me
- 2003: I'll See You
- 2009: De Júste Snaar
- 2011: Heart of Glass ( Blondie Cover, download only )
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c EMI Electrola Press / Promotionservice (Ed.): Twarres . Cologne July 2001, Profile, p. 2 (doctoral documents on “Wêr Bisto”).
- ↑ a b c Joost Aertssen: Twarres. 'Wij went? Welnee, dat kán niet eens' . In: Inhoud . July 13, 2001, p. 18th f . (Dutch).
- ↑ a b c EMI Electrola Press / Promotionservice (Ed.): Twarres . Cologne July 2001, Profile, p. 1 (promotional documents on “Wêr Bisto”).
- ↑ a b c d Menno Pot: My songs are not always cheerful ones . (English, undated [2001], reproduced for promotional purposes and inadequately published; in: EMI, Twarres, Presseclippings).
- ↑ a b c d Twarres' Mirjam and Johan. Nobody can take away what we've achieved . In: Yes . (English, undated [2001], reproduced for promotional purposes and inadequately published; in: EMI, Twarres, Presseclippings).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i Twarre's biography. In: muziekencyclopedie.nl. Retrieved July 14, 2014 (Dutch).
- ↑ EMI Electrola Press / Promotionservice (Ed.): Twarres . Cologne July 2001, Profile, p. 3 (promotional documents on “Wêr Bisto”).
- ↑ a b c d Twarres. Biography. In: twarres.eu. Retrieved July 14, 2014 (Dutch).
- ↑ Twarres - You Júste Snaar. In: muzieknu.nl. May 4, 2011, accessed July 14, 2014 (Dutch).
- ↑ Twarres. In: discogs.com. Retrieved July 14, 2014 .
- ↑ a b Chart sources: Albums NL Singles NL
- ↑ a b Awards for Music Sales: NL