Cornelis Johannes "Cesar" Zuiderwijk, (born 18 July 1948) is a Dutch drummer. He is best known as the drummer of the Dutch

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from 1970 until their retirement in 2021.

Biography

When Zuiderwijk was twelve he started playing the guitar, but switched to drums two years later. He has been a drummer in a number of bands; his school band René & His Alligators, plus Hu & the Hilltops and Livin' Blues. He was asked to replace Golden Earring drummer Sieb Warner in 1970. Since then, apart from brief line-ups of five (with

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and later

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), Golden Earring has consisted of the same four friends (Zuiderwijk,

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, Barry Hay and

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). Zuiderwijk is known to add a drum solo to each performance, which he concludes by launching himself over his drum kit. In September 1992, Zuiderwijk and his Golden Earring bandmates joined at least a thousand other drummers to play "

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" on the

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. In 1999 he was invited by War Child to teach children in the

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, to play drums. In 2000 he went on

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with Percossa Percussion as members of Golden Earring took a year off. The theatre show "Alle gekheid met een stokje" consisted of sketches, drum escapades and stories. In 2014, Zuiderwijk was asked by Veronica DJ Silvan Stoet to attend the Spring Rhythm Event organized by the DJ and the Dutch Longfonds organization.

References

External links

Golden Earring websiteMusicstation.nl
(in Dutch) {{DEFAULTSORT:Zuiderwijk, Cesar 1948 births Living people Golden Earring members Dutch rock drummers Male drummers Musicians from The Hague