Guitar, singing, musical improv, and freestyle rap — Amsterdam.
Music has been woven through my life for as long as I can remember. I play guitar, I sing, I perform musical improv with a live pianist, and I’m part of a performing freestyle rap group in Amsterdam. I’m not a professional musician — music is something I do because I love it.
Self-taught guitarist. Guitar has been part of my daily life for years — mostly acoustic, mostly used to accompany singing. I love the intimacy of playing for yourself and for a small room.
I perform in musical improv: a form of improv theatre with a live pianist where we improvise full songs, scenes, and stories on the spot based on audience suggestions. Performed live on 30 March 2025.
Part of Astiroids Amsterdam, a performing freestyle rap group. We perform live, improvising rhymes and flows in the moment. It’s one of the most fun things I do.
Musical improv has made me a better communicator. When you perform with a pianist you’ve never rehearsed with, in front of an audience who will shout out topics at random, you learn very quickly how to listen, how to commit, and how to recover when something doesn’t work.
Freestyle rap is similar — it’s pure real-time generation, staying present, and finding a way to make it work with whatever comes. These are skills I bring into teaching, facilitation, and any room where I have to think on my feet.
I also believe that making music — even badly — teaches you something important about imperfection and presence that is very hard to learn any other way.
This page will grow over time — recordings, performances, and more details about what I’m working on musically.
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