Kane was a Dutch rock band. In its final stage, the group consisted of the two original members, Dinand Woesthoff (lead vocals) and Dennis van Leeuwen (guitar). The band was inspired by
U2,
Pearl Jam
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,
Queen
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, and
Nirvana
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.
History
Kane got its start in
The Hague
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in 1998, when Dinand and Dennis met each other in a beach cafe where they were both working at the time. Both had a passion for music and it did not take long before they were discovered in a small cafe where they performed for a very small audience.
Their breakthrough came in the summer of 1999 with the song "Where Do I Go Now". Their record ''As Long as You Want This'' from 1999 was on the album hit list for 1.5 years and achieved
double platinum
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sales. With their second album in 2001, called ''So Glad You Made It'', the group scored several big hits. One of the biggest hit singles was "Let It Be".
In the following years Kane received some big awards, including
TMF awards,
MTV Europe music awards
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, and an Edison. They performed at big festivals like
Parkpop
The Parkpop festival is a free music festival held annually on the last Sunday of June in the city of The Hague, Netherlands.
It was first held in 1981 and was attended by 35,000 visitors. Today up to 350,000 people visit the festival every yea ...
and
Pinkpop
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.
Woesthoff devoted the song "Dreamer" to his wife
Guusje Nederhorst, who died in 2004. This single immediately reached the number 1 chart position and became the best-selling single of 2004.
Kane tried to make a career abroad, but with only little success in Belgium and a No. 38 UK chart position for "Rain Down on Me", it didn't go too well. The fact that there was an American
southern rock
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band called
Kane and that the name of English piano rock band
Keane resembles Kane's didn't help them much either.
The band's third album, ''Fearless'', hit No. 1 on the Dutch charts when it came out. The first two singles, "Something to Say" and "Fearless", came in at No. 1 as well.
On 13 August 2005 Kane did an open-air performance on the beach of
Almere
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. It was attended by over 30,000 people. A few days before, the band had performed in front of 1,500 people in
Paradiso, Amsterdam. In December 2005, they ended the year with a performance in
Rotterdam Ahoy
Rotterdam Ahoy (formerly known as Ahoy Rotterdam or simply as Ahoy) is a convention centre and multi-purpose indoor arena located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. Opened originally in 1950, the current complex consists of three main venues: a fairs an ...
.
In December 2014, Kane disbanded.
Band members
Kane has had a long history of changes in the band formation. Since their founding in 1998, the group has had 19 different band members, although some of those members only played on the recording of the live album ''February''.
At the end of 2004, bass player Dion Murdock left the band, as he wanted to play drums for the Dutch band
Intwine
Intwine was a Dutch rock band formed in 2001 by five students of the Tilburg Rockacademie.
The band received nationwide notoriety in the Netherlands after lead singer Roger Peterson's participation in the ''Idols'' talent show in 2002. . Murdock was replaced by Yolanda Charles, who played for
Robbie Williams
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's band. She only played on the album ''Fearless''. Bassist Manuel Hugas, who played on the CD/DVD ''February'' too, later played for Kane, but only during live shows.
Vocals
* Dinand Woesthoff
Guitars
* Dennis van Leeuwen
* Robin Berlin
* Paul Jan Bakker (fired)
* Tony Cornelissen (left the band)
Bass
* Daniele Labbate
* Ivo Severijns (left the band)
* Manuel Hugas (left the band)
* Yolanda Charles (only on ''Fearless'')
* Dion Murdock (left the band)
* Aram Kersbergen (left the band)
* Matto Kranenburg (fired)
Drums
* Bram Hakkens
* Wim van der Westen (left the band)
* Joost Kroon (left the band)
* Martijn Bosman (left the band)
* André Kemp (left the band)
* Cyril Directie (left the band)
* Sammy de Fretes (original drummer, never recorded)
Keyboards
* Anan den Boer
* Nico Brandsen (left the band)
* Ronald Kool (left the band)
* Ricky van Poppel (left the band)
Others
* Hans Eijkenaar (drums on ''As Long as You Want This'')
* Cor Mutsers (guitars)
* Wiboud Burkens (piano)
* Mike Booth (trumpet)
* Peter Lieberom (saxophone)
Discography
Studio albums
Live albums
Compilations
Singles
Other charted songs
References
External links
Official website (archived)at the Popinstituut, via the
Wayback Machine
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Biography of Kaneat the Muziekencyclopedie of the
Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
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Dutch rock music groups
Musical groups established in 1998
Musical groups disestablished in 2014
MTV Europe Music Award winners
Musical groups from The Hague