Ralph de Jongh

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RALPH DE JONGH... ... is a gifted blues-singer/songwriter who, despite his tender age, has already built up an impressive list of achievements. When he was five, he was inspired by his father’s Stones albums. Little Ralph practised the guitar and developed a vocal sound that makes one suspect that a black soul beats in this blond Brabanter. After many performances here and there and a degree in Ancient Chinese philosophy, Ralph threw himself completely into his music. And this didn’t go unnoticed. Harry Muskee (Holland’s uncrowned King of Blues) saw him and immediately became a fan. Renowned blues cafés saw him and wanted him back. Blues festivals carefully programmed the solo guitarist/singer in the afternoon programme and the next year he could count on a prominent place in the main programming. Ralph de Jongh is a sensation in today’s Dutch music scene. Not only to listen to, but also to watch. His body and limbs become the blues when he plays and his arms and legs seem suddenly to have a life of their own. He doesn’t play music; he becomes music. And the audience witnesses an inexhaustible, amazing energy that seems to flow out of every pore in his body. And that energy results, time and again, in a magnificent feast of the blues. A feast the like of which we, the cool-blooded Dutch, no longer know. Ralph’s music rises above the average Blues story and this means that things are as they should be for this young blues musician. Knight in the blues Harry Muskee thought, back in 2004, that he was listening to a delta blues musician from the States. It turned out to be Ralph. Harry became a friend, and invited Ralph to play as supporting act in the Cuby and the Blizzards theatre tour of 2006-2007-2008. Bennie Jolink followed suit for the Normaal Tent Tour in the summer of 2007. Since the age of seventeen, Ralph has also painted. He currently does this in his Studio on the Ten Boomstraat 60 in Hilversum. Ralph de Jongh was born in 1975 in Roosendaal.

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Member Since:

June 24, 2007

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and so many others and every living no words for that..

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HARRY MUSKEE... ...met Ralph in 2004 and wrote a letter of recommendation, which goes as follows: “I was standing in the bar of café “De Amer” drinking a beer and I learnt that there was a supporting act. Now generally I don’t pay much attention to supporting acts, but this time I heard a sound that made me think of an old blues singer that I had heard in the Delta. I expected to see somebody from Mississippi, but to my amazement I saw a tall blond guy playing the slide-guitar and harmonica with incredible originality. This was my first encounter with Ralph de Jongh. Many more would follow. In the meantime, we have spent many hours talking to each other and to my astonishment it turned out we both know something about Laozi, a well-known Chinese philosopher. Ralph de Jongh plays with conviction and with a drive that you do not see very much these days. He is totally consumed by the music and what’s more he is a young man who dares to choose not to take the ‘easy way out’: Glitter, quick success...., but instead chooses a piece of culture in the form of the music of Robert Johnson, Son House, Elmore James and Muddy Waters. By now insiders have come to know Ralph and I hope that the media too will provide him with a podium, for if you have just a small knowledge of music you will know this is too good a chance to miss. You’ll be hearing from Ralph. With respect and pleasure, Harry Muskee.” Guestbook click here Links Mylène de la Haye Saskia van Engeland Jasper Mortier The Bluesman Cuby Wisseloord Peter Vroon (photos) Cor Tillema (photos) Erik van den Berge Leon Verkade The Veldman Brothers Bluezy Twelve Bar Bluesband Het Geluid Bluesforum The Van Blues DVD's Stichting Magdalena Maillist

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