32 Facts About Tjeerd Oosterhuis

Tjeerd Oosterhuis's production of Freaky Like Me for Madcon was a number 1 hit Norway.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis is the son of writer, theologian and former priest Huub Oosterhuis.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis has worked with many other artists including Candy Dulfer, Mathilde Santing, K-otic, Gordon, Re-play, Di-rect, Alain Clark, Julian Thomas, Petra Berger, Hind, Henny Vrienten and Karin Bloemen.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis has made music for various commercials, movies and television programmes.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis was born and raised in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in a family of creative professionals.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis's mother Jozefien Melief is a classical violin player.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis's father Huub Oosterhuis, a former priest, is a theologian, poet and church music lyricist.

At a very early age Tjeerd Oosterhuis discovers the piano and from age seven he receives formal piano lessons, being classically trained at first.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis is challenged regularly to make compositions to his father's newly written lyrics thus learning to create melodies still being in his teens.

In 1990, Tjeerd Oosterhuis formed the band Total Touch with his sister Trijntje and, in 1991, they participate in the, then the most important amateur musician contest in the Netherlands.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis is the main composer and producer of the band, as well as being the bandleader and keyboard player.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis is starting to focus more on his abilities as a songwriter, arranger and producer.

In 2001, Tjeerd Oosterhuis is the musical director of the TV-show Starmaker.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis then starts working with the Dutch act K-otic who took part in that show, producing and mixing part of their multi-platinum debut album.

At DEMP Studio's Tjeerd Oosterhuis starts making music for various radio- and TV-commercials, Renault, Coca-Cola and Radio 538 being some of his clients.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis contributes to the soundtrack of the movie, supplying the hit-titlesong "", being sung by Trijntje.

In 2002 Tjeerd Oosterhuis writes and produces the album Face To Face for singer Edsilia Rombley plus the major part of his sister's solo-studiodebut, the untitled 2003 album from Trijntje Tjeerd Oosterhuis.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis makes the soundtrack and orchestral score for the Ruud van Hemert movie plus the leader for the as well as producing two of their contestants.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis signs a three-year publishing contract with Tony Berk and is a juror for the TV-show that focuses of finding new talent for theatre.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis is musical director for the theatre tour of Edsilia Rombley and is asked create a modern version of the Mozart opera Cosi Fan Tutte by Opera Cinema Nederland.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis writes and produces the songs "" and "On Top of the World" for Edsilia Rombey to participate in the Eurovision Song Contest 2007.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis composes and produces all music for the TV-show S1NGLE, broadcast by Net5, including the title tune "" sung by Trijntje Tjeerd Oosterhuis.

In 2011, Tjeerd Oosterhuis was asked for the first time to produce music for, which he did for the next ten years to come.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis produces an album of the music from, containing studio versions of the songs from that musical.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis composes the song "One Thousand Voices" for the popular TV-show The Voice Of Holland broadcast by RTL 4.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis serves as one of the producers for the AVRO TV-format Join The Beat where viewers can submit their contributions to a pre-created beat by Sven Figee.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis is again involved with The Voice Of Holland where his sister Trijntje Tjeerd Oosterhuis serves as coach for a second time.

Spring of 2015 sees the release of, an album composed and produced by Tjeerd Oosterhuis, based on the inspirational lyrics of his father Huub Tjeerd Oosterhuis.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis starts working with Dutch singer Steffen Morrison releasing a first single "Do It All Again".

Tjeerd Oosterhuis serves as musical director and co-producer for Whitney - A Tribute By Glennis Grace, both for the live shows as the subsequent CD and DVD releases.

Tjeerd Oosterhuis produced the album, which lasted in the national charts for 19 weeks, meaning a major revival for the choir.

The Tjeerd Oosterhuis produced album reaches the top of the national Dutch charts which last happened in 1983 and ends up selling diamond status.