User:Wimoudijk

Wim Oudijk, musician, producer, arranger and songwriter was born on 9 May 1943 in The Hague, TheNetherlands. As a child he was a prestigious yodeler and self taught pianist. In his early 20s, he owned a record shop which was very successful. His interests in all things musical first bore fruit when he started The Navel Orange Choir between the years 1976 and 1980. The band had a string of TV appearances and a record deal with Polydor.

When the band split up he formed Trespassers W with whom he remained from 1984 to 2000. In 2002, he remastered a CD boxed set for them. In 1998, Wim first embarked on a solo career co-forming Disco Fair record label with long time friend Bert Koops, a veteran of many Dutch TV movies and documentaries. His most famous work probably being the location sound mixer on 240 episodes of Goede tijden, slechte tijden. Wim’s first solo album was the famous Beachcombing (1998) followed in 1999 by the amazing Underbrush.

The new millenium heralded in the wondrous Xing the Equator followed by Strrung (2002), Paroles (2003), VistaVision (2004), Waitress in a Sushi-Bar (2005), Hero Swan & Doll (2006), the infamous The Leprechaun Classic Emerged was released in 2007, Calypso-and-So (a tribute of sorts to Wim’s musical hero and friend Van Dyke Parks) was released in 2008. Also, in 2008 Wim created his final work to this date with mind blowing The Love Album which contained one of the finest pieces of music of the last 25 years, the epic Wonders.