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Renée Steenvoorden (1994) is a jazz singer and songwriter based in the south of the Netherlands. She grew up in a musical family and started playing the violin at the age of five. After that she has further developed musically and she eventually specialized in singing. She studied at the Conservatory of Maastricht (graduated in 2016) and Brussels (graduated in 2021), on the latter her main subject was Jazz singing. She was taught by well known European Jazz musicians like David Linx and Diederik Wissels.
Renée regularly sings with multiple projects on stages in The Netherlands and abroad. A few of her notable performances were at De Roode bioscoop in Amsterdam, the Musical Instrument Museum and the Midis Minimes Festival in Brussels, 30CC/Schouwburg in Leuven, Theater De Oranjerie in Roermond, the Pop-up Jazzclub in Maastricht and at the Autumn Leaves Jazz Festival in Venlo.
In september 2021 she released her first album 'Songs from the Garden' with the vocal ensemble called WANDER. In addition, Renée released her own personal EP: 'A Place Called Home' in the fall of 2022. This EP is an ode to her journey; the journey she made in the search of her musical identity in the world of today. And in 2023 Renée started a new project called Chimaera, in duo with piano and voice. In august of that same year, Chimaera won a prize at the EU Jazz Young Talent Award.
