1. Fr… Read Full Bio ↴Two musicians from The Netherlands are known as Frank Boeijen:
1. Frank Boeijen is a Dutch singer/songwriter, who was the front man of popular (and eponymous) pop group De Frank Boeijen Groep from 1980 until 1991, the year he went solo. As leader of De Frank Boeijen Groep, Boeijen was one of the pioneers of Nederpop; along with the likes of Doe Maar en Het Goede Doel. After the peak of Nederpop passed, Boeijen broke new ground by touring theatres with his band and bringing pop music to new auditoriums and audiences. As a solo artist, he has kept to this theatre based approach of his music and maintained a productive pace.
Frank Boeijen was born in Nijmegen, The Netherlands on November 27, 1957, as the last in a family of ten children. His father was a typesetter in a factory. His older brothers were into American pop music; in the Boeijen household, Bob Dylan and Neil Young were often to be found on the record player (years later, Boeijen would write a song about this, appropriately titled Robbert Zimmerman). Young Frank learned to play the guitar. After finishing high school, Boeijen started a musical collaboration with guitarist Wout Pennings. Boeijen en Pennings released an album together in 1977. The songs of the album were re-recorded and the album was re-released a year later, with Rob de Nijs acting as producer. It was appropriately titled Boeijen en Pennings. To fulfil live engagements, drummer Henk Wanders en bass player Nels Busch joined the duo.
Pennings left the band in 1979 and was replaced with guitar player Wil Theunissen. The name was changed into the Frank Boeijen Groep. The b-side of their fist single, a song entitled Verjaardagsfeest was picked on up by radio disc jockey Frits Spits, who played the record a lot during his evening show. The group released their debut album, simply entitled Frank Boeijen Groep, album later that year. On the base of the airplay of Verjaardagsfeest, the album reached the Tipparade.
Nederpop, pop music with Dutch vocals, was becoming a mainstream success in the early eighties, and the Frank Boeijen Groep hitched a wagon to that train, when their single Linda, reached the Top Forty. Zwart Wit, another single, written after a racial murder had taken place in Amsterdam, became a number one hit. 1982's Twee and 1983's 1001 Hotel became big sellers.
In 1984, the Frank Boeijen Groep was awarded the Zilveren Harp by Conamus. In that same year, album Kontakt was released. Lead guitarist Wil Theunissen quit the group later that year and replaced with Maarten Peters, who himself was replaced two years later by Ger Hoeijmakers. In 1985, the group released Foto Van Een Mooie Dag. Single Kronenburg Park -- named after Kronenburger Park a park in Nijmegen, Boeijen's place of birth and residence -- became a huge success. Follow up, In Nature, released in 1986, didn't do as well, but still sold respectively.
Towards the end of the eighties, Boeijen's music fell somewhere in between het levenslied of André Hazes, the chansons of Ramses Shaffy and the pop of Doe Maar. According to Frank Boeijen and his manager Paul Schouwenaars the group had outgrown clubs and tents. With the release of album Welkom In Utopia in 1987, the group decided to tour Dutch theatres. The Welkom In Utopia tour started in the Stadsschouwburg in Amsterdam in September of the same year. Two more albums were released: studio album Een Zomer Aan Het Eind Van De Twintigste Eeuw (1989) and live album Hier Komt De Storm. During these years, Frank Boeijen dated Sky Channel presenter Amanda Redington. The two would marry in 1990. The album Dans In Slow Motion, released in 1988, was written for her. In juni 1994 scheidden ze weer van elkaar.
In the spring of 1991, Boeijen announced the ending of his group. In November of that year, he released his first solo album Wilde Bloemen. The musicians on the album were drummer Norman Bonink, guitar player Peter van Benthem and bass player Michel van Schie. Van Schie was replaced by touring bass player René te Voortwis, and pianist Ton Snijders was also recorded. Wilde Bloemen featured several duets with other well known Dutch musicians, among them were: Twee Gezichten, a song written and recorded with Henk Hofstede of The Nits); and Het IJs, written and recorded with Henny Vrienten of Doe Maar).
In the summer of 1993, Boeijen recorded Jazz in Barcelona; an album concerned with the break up between him and Amanda Redington. The subsequent theatre tour was a big success, with sold out shows every evening. Traces of Boeijen's break up were also to be found on next album De Ontmoeting (1994 - an even more spare and intimate affair than Jazz In Barcelona. De Ontmoeting also featured a single, Twee Mannen Zo Stil, with music and lyrics by Boeijen and Stef Bos. Although the single failed to mount the charts, over the years it became a Nederpop classic, often played at funerals. In the same year, Boeijen produced an album for Liesbeth List, the female voice of Ramses Shaffy's recordings. In 1995, another live album, Stormvogels, hit the shelves.
Boeijen returned with two new albums in 1997: a greatest hits compilation, Het Beste En Het Mooiste and an album of new material, Vaderland. The year before, Boeijen had travelled extensively through Asia, and a lot of the songs, although concerning Boeijen and The Netherlands, were written from a distant perspective. In 1999, De Ballade van de Dromedaris, recorded in Peter Gabriel's Real World Studio's appeared, followed by live album Door De Jaren Heen, containing several duets with Ramses Shaffy, Liesbeth List and Stef Bos. Both albums were big sellers. In 2001, Heden, was released. Drummer Norman Bonink left the group to join BLØF. He seat was filled by Oscar Kraal. Helder contained a collaboration between Boeijen and BLØF front man Paskal Jakobsen, single Geen Gevaar. The song was released in the summer of 2002. In the same year, Boeijen won an Edison award as best singer.
2. Frank Boeijen is also the name of the keyboardist for the Dutch group The Gathering.
Stormvogels
Frank Boeijen Lyrics
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Zou het toeval zijn
Dit is de eerste dag
Dat het hier regent
Maar was jij het niet
Die zei dat toeval niet bestaat
Maar was jij het niet
Die zei dat alles eens voorbijgaat
En de stormvogels die roepen
's Nachts naar de maan
En de stormvogels die wijzen
De weg voor elkaar
Dit is de laatste dag
De tijd is hier geweest
Maar niet zonder te denken
Aan dat land aan de Noordzee
Waar men zich staande houdt
Onder een grijze hemel
Waar men werkt en waar men sterk is
Maar soms vergeet om te leven
En de stormvogels die roepen
's Nachts naar de maan
En de stormvogels die wijzen
De weg voor elkaar
Door het donker
Door het duister
Als de zon is ondergegaan
Langs de bergen
Door de dalen
Als de zon is ondergegaan
The lyrics to the song Stormvogels by Frank Boeijen speak about the end of a phase in life and the uncertainty that comes with new beginnings. The first two lines, "This is the last day, could it be a coincidence? This is the first day that it rains here," suggest a sense of finality and change. The next two lines refer to the idea of everything coming to an end eventually, and the suggestion that coincidence may not exist.
The chorus, "And the storm birds that call out at night to the moon, And the storm birds that point the way for each other," could be interpreted as the natural world continues to move forward no matter what human beings may do. The birds exist in a world separate from humanity, yet they navigate storms and uncertainties together.
The last two stanzas reflect on the resilience of people living in a gray, industrialized world that can often feel sterile or devoid of meaning. But still, they persist and survive under an unchanging sky. The final lines imply that despite the darkness and unknown of the future, there is still the potential to travel through life with a sense of purpose and direction, like the storm birds.
Line by Line Meaning
Dit is de laatste dag
Today is the end of a certain phase
Zou het toeval zijn
Could it be coincidence?
Dit is de eerste dag
Today marks the beginning of something new
Dat het hier regent
It's raining today
Maar was jij het niet
Weren't you the one
Die zei dat toeval niet bestaat
Who said that there is no such thing as coincidence?
Maar was jij het niet
Weren't you the one
Die zei dat alles eens voorbijgaat
Who said that everything comes to an end eventually?
En de stormvogels die roepen
And the storm birds that call out
's Nachts naar de maan
At night, towards the moon
En de stormvogels die wijzen
And the storm birds that point out
De weg voor elkaar
The way for each other
De tijd is hier geweest
Time has passed
Maar niet zonder te denken
But not without thinking
Aan dat land aan de Noordzee
About that land by the North Sea
Waar men zich staande houdt
Where one holds on
Onder een grijze hemel
Under a grey sky
Waar men werkt en waar men sterk is
Where one works hard and is strong
Maar soms vergeet om te leven
But sometimes forgets to live
Door het donker
Through the darkness
Door het duister
Through the night
Als de zon is ondergegaan
When the sun has set
Langs de bergen
Along the mountains
Door de dalen
Through the valleys
Als de zon is ondergegaan
When the sun has set
Contributed by Luke A. Suggest a correction in the comments below.
Stars & stones
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hij wiegt het en werpt milde bedenkingen op met zijn prachtige stemgeluid.
Hij troost, verbindt, zalft en zoekt…
Bedankt Frank! ♥️✨
G.J. KOSTER
Voor mij de enige in Nederland die daadwerkelijk het predikaat artiest verdient. Deze man is veel te groot voor dit landje, waar echt talent vaak word miskend bovendien.
Jimmy van der Post
Wat blijft dit een prachtig nummer, snap niet dat het maar 4300 keer beluisterd is. Prachtig, zo vol emotie! Genieten!
eddyhollander
inmiddels bijna 15000 keer......:)
Roald Boshuis
Masterpiece brilliant lyrics
Stephan van der Steen
Blijft een mooi nummer !
Judith Egberink
Prachtig....
Han de Vlaam
Frank is God voor mij
Sam Meyer
heel mooi dit
Peter Renes
Het Blijft een Leuk Lied