My Baby is a Dutch- New Zealand band from Amsterdam. Their music is a mix of

blues Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...

, country and

funk Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of various music genres that were popular among African Americans in the m ...

. My Baby was founded in 2012 by previous members of the Amsterdam soul band The Souldiers. My Baby are Cato van Dijck (lead vocals, bass and violin), her brother Joost van Dijck (drums), and Daniel 'Dafreez' Johnston (guitars).

Biography

The band was discovered in their early years by the PR-Manager of bass player

Larry Graham Larry Graham Jr. (born August 14, 1946) is an American bassist and baritone singer, both with the psychedelic soul/funk band Sly and the Family Stone and as the founder and frontman of Graham Central Station. In 1980, he released the single "O ...

( Sly & the Family Stone, Graham Central Station, Prince). In 2012, he performed together with the band during his Dutch tour, including Paradiso and the North Sea Jazz Club. In 2013, their debut album ''My Baby Loves Voodoo!'' got released on jazz label Embrace Recordings. My Baby's second album ''Shamanaid'' came out in 2015. To promote the album, My Baby did fourteen opening shows for the American blues guitarist Seasick Steve during his ''Sonic Soul Tour'' in the United Kingdom. In 2015 a re-recording was made for the song "Remedy" from the album ''Shamanaid'' and was released as an EP. By the end of 2016 the band spread the word that they were finishing their third album ''Prehistoric Rhythm''. The first single ''Love Dance'' came out on February 10, 2017. My Baby played festivals like Freak Valley, Noorderslag, Zwarte Cross, Lowlands, Down The Rabbit Hole, Paaspop, toured Eastern Europe, South Africa and New Zealand and played Glastonbury 2016 six times.

Awards

Their debut album ''My Baby Loves Voodoo!'' was nominated for an

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in the category audience award. My Baby got nominated twice for an

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Soul & Jazz Awards in the category "Best Live Act". In March 2016 the band won an Edison in the category "Alternative" for the album ''Shamanaid''.

Discography

* ''My Baby Loves Voodoo!'', 2013 * ''Shamanaid'', 2015 * ''Remedy II EP'', 2015 * ''Prehistoric Rhythm'', 2017 * ''Mounaiki ~ By the Bright of Night'', 2018 * ''Live!'', 2019

References

External links

Official website

MY BABY
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