Eefje de Visser (born 8 February 1986) is a Dutch singer-songwriter. She won the

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, a national competition for musicians, in 2009. She released her first album, ''De Koek'', in 2011, a breakthrough year in which she performed (accompanied by a four-man band called Most Unpleasant Men) at three major Dutch festivals: the

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, and the

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. On 14 December 2015 Eefje de Visser released a new song, "Scheef", on

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. The album ''Nachtlicht'' followed the next year. In 2020 she released her fourth album ''Bitterzoet'', followed by a European tour supporting Balthazar.

Personal life

De Visser is married to Pieterjan Coppejans, who is also her sound engineer and has co-produced her work starting with ''Bitterzoet''. Their son Pablo was born in 2021. They currently reside in the Belgian city of

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. She is

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Discography

Albums

References

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* Dutch women singer-songwriters Dutch LGBT singers Dutch LGBT songwriters Living people People from Leidschendam-Voorburg 1986 births 21st-century Dutch women singers 21st-century Dutch LGBT people Dutch bisexual people Bisexual women musicians Bisexual singers Bisexual songwriters {{Netherlands-singer-stub