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Birth Name: Candy Dulfer

Age: 56, born 19 September 1969

Country of origin: Netherlands

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Description: Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch smooth jazz and funk alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation album. She has performed and recorded songs with musicians including her father Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, and Maceo Parker, and has performed live with Alan Parsons (1995) and Pink Floyd (1990). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy meets... (2007), in which she inter Candy Dulfer (born 19 September 1969) is a Dutch smooth jazz and funk alto saxophonist who began playing at the age of six. She founded her band, Funky Stuff, when she was fourteen years old. Her debut album Saxuality (1990) received a Grammy Award nomination. Dulfer has released nine studio albums, two live albums, and one compilation album. She has performed and recorded songs with musicians including her father Hans Dulfer, Prince, Dave Stewart, Van Morrison, and Maceo Parker, and has performed live with Alan Parsons (1995) and Pink Floyd (1990). She hosted the Dutch television series Candy meets... (2007), in which she interviews fellow musicians. In 2013 she became a judge in the fifth season of the Dutch version of The X Factor.

Candy Dulfer was born on 19 September 1969 in Amsterdam in the Netherlands, as the daughter of saxophonist Hans Dulfer.[2] She began playing the drums at the age of five.[3] As a six-year-old she started to play the soprano saxophone.[4] At the age of seven she switched to alto saxophone and later began playing in a local concert band Jeugd Doet Leven (English translation: "Youth Brings Life") in Zuiderwoude.[3]

Dulfer played her first solo on stage with her father's band De Perikels ("The Perils").[2] At the age of eleven, she made her first recordings for the album I Didn't Ask (1981) of De Perikels.[3] In 1982, when she was twelve years old, she played as a member of Rosa King's Ladies Horn section at the North Sea Jazz Festival. According to Dulfer, King encouraged her to become a band leader herself. In 1984, at the age of fourteen, Dulfer started her own band Funky Stuff.[2]

Dulfer's band performed throughout the Netherlands and in 1987 was the opening act for two of Madonna's European concerts.[2][3]

In 1988 Prince invited Dulfer on stage to play an improvised solo during one of his European shows.[2] In 1989 Dulfer appeared in Prince's "Partyman" video.[3]

Dulfer performed session work with Eurythmics guitarist and producer Dave Stewart and was a guest musician for Pink Floyd at the band's performance at Knebworth in 1990.[5][6]

Dulfer's debut album, Saxuality, was released in 1990 and was nominated for a Grammy and certified gold for worldwide sales in excess of half a million. Her song "Lily Was Here" reached No. 11 on American the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Though Dulfer has had smooth jazz chart hits such as "For The Love Of You" and "Finsbury Park, Cafe 67".[citation needed]

Dulfer was also the featured saxophonist on Van Morrison's A Night in San Francisco, an album in 1993,[7] and performed with Alan Parsons and his band at the World Liberty Concert in 1995.

Dulfer collaborated with her father Hans Dulfer on the duet album Dulfer Dulfer in 2001.[7]

In 2007, she released her ninth studio album Candy Store. The album reached a No. 2 position in Billboard's Top Contemporary Jazz charts.[8] Her song Candy Store and the song "L.A. Citylights" reached the No. 1 position in Smooth Jazz National Airplay charts in the United States.[9]

Dulfer is mostly a self-taught musician except for some training in a concert band and a few months of music lessons.[2]

In 2007 Candy Dulfer was the presenter and interviewer in Candy meets..., her own television program for public broadcaster NPS. In the series she met with Sheila E., Maceo Parker, Hans Dulfer, Van Morrison, Dave Stewart, and Mavis Staples.[10]

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"Smooth jazz no doubt has gotten a lot of bad rap over the years. From a respectable pared down alternative of jazz fusion to elevator music for the low attention spanned. And in the hands of Kenny G, its reputation was tarnished forever. Look beyond the jazz for numpties approach Kenny G took and you have a wealth of good artists. Take Candy and Grove Washington Jr for example. It's not jazz at the highest level and isn't exactly an excavation of the soul but it's a lighter alternative. Failing "

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