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.
Dieren
Frank boeijen Lyrics
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Neem me in jouw weke mond
Gebruik je nappen als een inktvis
Je tentakels gaan in het rond
Zwelg als een varken in de modder
Zweet als een otter in de sloot
Weet dat deze nacht weer eindigt
Want van de dieren komen wij
En dieren zullen we zijn
In dat ondeelbaar moment
Van zinderende gelukzalige
Extatische eenzaamheid
Neem me hulpeloos gevangen
In jouw klamme spinnenweb
Als een vlieg zal ik daar blijven hangen
Totdat jij er genoeg van hebt
Voer me jouw kikkerdril
Voer me jouw heerlijkheid
En ik zal doorgaan zolang je wilt
Op het ritme van de eeuwigheid
Want van de dieren komen wij
En dieren zullen we zijn
In dat ondeelbaar moment
Van zinderende gelukzalige
Extatische eenzaamheid
Verslonden door elkaar
Door het slijk glijdt de aal
En alle dieren komen bij elkaar
Op het laatste avondmaal
Kom maar kom maar dit is het einde
Wuif als een zeeanemoon
Zo mooi zo mooi zal het blijven
Opeens heb ik de mensheid door
Want van de dieren komen wij
En dieren zullen we zijn
In dat ondeelbaar moment
Van zinderende gelukzalige
Extatische eenzaamheid
The lyrics of Frank Boeijen's song "Dieren" explore the animalistic nature of humanity, urging the listener to embrace their primal instincts and desires. Boeijen's use of vivid animal imagery and metaphors creates a poetic and evocative song that speaks to the primal nature of human existence. The opening lines of the song, "Take me in your cruel arms, Take me in your soft mouth" immediately set the tone for the animalistic imagery that permeates the lyrics.
The song encourages the listener to indulge in their senses and passions, suggesting that by doing so, one can experience true ecstasy and happiness. Boeijen implores the listener to revel in their bodies, to wallow in the mud like a pig or sweat like an otter. The implication is that by giving in to one's animal instincts, one can find a kind of transcendence or even spiritual enlightenment. Ultimately, the song celebrates the oneness of all living beings, and offers the listener a vision of an ecstatic, everlasting communion with nature.
In summary, Frank Boeijen's "Dieren" is a poetically rich and evocative song that exhorts the listener to embrace their animal nature and celebrate the oneness of all living beings.
Line by Line Meaning
Neem me in jouw wrede armen
Take me in your cruel arms
Neem me in jouw weke mond
Take me in your soft mouth
Gebruik je nappen als een inktvis
Use your tentacles like an octopus
Je tentakels gaan in het rond
Your tentacles move around
Zwelg als een varken in de modder
Wallow like a pig in the mud
Zweet als een otter in de sloot
Sweat like an otter in the ditch
Weet dat deze nacht weer eindigt
Know that this night will end again
Zoals altijd in de goot
Like always in the gutter
Want van de dieren komen wij
For we come from the animals
En dieren zullen we zijn
And animals we shall be
In dat ondeelbaar moment
In that indivisible moment
Van zinderende gelukzalige
Of thrilling blissful
Extatische eenzaamheid
Ecstatic solitude
Neem me hulpeloos gevangen
Take me helplessly captive
In jouw klamme spinnenweb
In your clammy spider web
Als een vlieg zal ik daar blijven hangen
Like a fly I will remain hanging there
Totdat jij er genoeg van hebt
Until you've had enough
Voer me jouw kikkerdril
Feed me your frogspawn
Voer me jouw heerlijkheid
Feed me your deliciousness
En ik zal doorgaan zolang je wilt
And I will continue as long as you want
Op het ritme van de eeuwigheid
To the rhythm of eternity
Verslonden door elkaar
Devoured by each other
Door het slijk glijdt de aal
Through the mud slides the eel
En alle dieren komen bij elkaar
And all the animals come together
Op het laatste avondmaal
At the last supper
Kom maar kom maar dit is het einde
Come on, come on, this is the end
Wuif als een zeeanemoon
Wave like a sea anemone
Zo mooi zo mooi zal het blijven
So beautiful, so beautiful it will remain
Opeens heb ik de mensheid door
Suddenly I understand humanity
In dat ondeelbaar moment
In that indivisible moment
Van zinderende gelukzalige
Of thrilling blissful
Extatische eenzaamheid
Ecstatic solitude
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