Soesja Citroen

Highlights: - 2008 Release CD COLLECTED SONGS. - Only Dutch singer in the Penguin Guide. - One of 'Jazz Singers Top 500' in Scott Yanow' book. . 2005 Release 3rd CD as singer-songwriter 'Don't cry Baby' CHR 70127 and Penguin Guide writers Richard Cook and Brian Morton awarded the maximum of 4 * and wrote in 2005 about Citroen: - Leading singer on the Dutch scene. - This is a hugely exciting album, worthy of the widest notice. - CD, which carries off its bruised romanticism with great conviction. - The title song Song for Ma is magnificent. - Time she was better known outside her native country. … 2004 Start ‘25 years Soesja Citroen’ with program Wise Women Know. Bruce Crowther reviewed in 2004 the CD Soesja Sings Citroen: Soesja Citroen, a strikingly good singer from The Netherlands. She is also a very good songwriter as is demonstrated on this set as Soesja presents fifteen of her own love songs , all of which are melodically pleasing and have intelligent lyrics. Soesja's sound is mature and assured and the interplay with the clarinet and alto saxophone of Michael Moore is delightful. … 2003 Soesja's tour in Indonesia with concerts in Jakarta (2), Semarang, Yogyakarta and Surabaya. The tour was a great success and national newspapers raved about Soesja as an outstanding jazz entertainer who bewitched her audience with her melancholic voice. … 2002 Soesja’s nomination for the Edison Award. … 2001The release of the cd ‘Soesja sings Citroen’ , Soesja composed 15 new songs and performed at the Chevreuse jazzfestival in Paris France. … 1999 Canadian jazz magazine CADENCE called the cd ‘Song for Ma’ superb and wrote that Citroen deserves recognition as a composer. Jazz Times reviewed about the same cd ‘Dutch vocalist and songwriter Citroen shows herself a formidable composer’. … 1998 The recording as singer/songwriter of the cd ‘Song for Ma’; a cd with all songs of her own and with American guest Michael Moore. This cd and the subsequent theater-tour was highly acclaimed in the press. … 1997 The release of the cd ‘Yesterday’, a compilation of her three albums with the Metropole Orchestra. … 1996 Soesja's successful performance at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the release of her cd ‘Songs for Lovers and Losers’ with Louis van Dijk and Hein Van de Geyn. The German jazz magazine Jazz Podium called Soesja an European Top Jazz singer and the American jazz magazine Jazz Times called her absolutely sensational. … 1994 The relaese of the cd ‘Here and Now’ with Jarmo Hoogendijk and her tv-show in Ljubljana Slovenija. … 1993 Soesja performing at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York and recordings with the NDR-Radio Bigband in Hamburg Germany. … 1991 The release of the cd ‘Soesja Citroen Band Live’. Soesja proves she’s not only a great singer of ballads but also a wild woman on stage ‘when the spirit moves her’. … 1990 The third concert of the Soesja Citroen Band at the North Sea Jazz Festival in Holland. … 1989 The release of her third cd with the Metropole Orchestra ‘Soesja in Silk’ , a beautiful ballad-cd conducted by Robert Farnon. … 1987 The releases of Soesja’s second cd with the Metropole Orchestra ‘Soesja Citroen sings Fred Astaire’ and her Band cd ‘Shall we Dance’ with Albert Sarko. … 1986 The concerts of the Soesja Citroen Band at the Yatra Jazz Festival in New Delhi and Bombay , the Artistic Award at the Festival Mensch und Meer in Rostock Germany and recordings for the Danish Radio Bigband in Copenhagen Danmark. … 1984 The release of Soesja’s first album with the Metropole Orchestra ‘Angel Eyes’, conducted by Rogier van Otterloo. … 1983 The release of the album ‘Soesja Citroen sings Thelonious Monk’ with John Clayton, on which she firmly established herself as a lyricist and recordings with the BRT-Radio Bigband in Brussels Belgium. … 1982 Soesja's second prize at the Knokke Song festival in Belgium and the release of her album ‘Key Largo’ with Cees Slinger and Buck Hill. … 1981 Soesja's first concert with her Sextet at the North Sea Jazz Festival and the release of her album ‘Good enough for Jazz’ with Nico Bunink. … 1980 The releases of Soesja’s first album ‘To Build’ , featuring Willem Breuker and the album ‘Sad Trumpets’ with Nedly Elstak’s vocal group. … 1979 Soesja Citroen took up her singing career in the group of Nedly Elstak ‘Seven Singers and a Horn’ and she also started her ‘Soesja Citroen Sextet’.

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