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Dutch jazz singer with a warm, sensual voice.

Trained as a singer, dancer, actress & entertainer.

Review: "...She has a voice like a luxuriously upholstered bridal suite. Pleasant, sumptuous, warm. Complete with exciting nooks and soft carpets in subdued shades. Colette Wickenhagen, one of the shiners of Amersfoort jazz, blossomed into the complete jazz diva with her elastic timbre, almost unlimited technique, playful improvisations, penetrating interpretation of the lyrics and remarkable radiation......" (Jeroen de Valk)

1990 - Won the Polaroid Award & Soloist Award
1992 - Won the Breukelen Jazz Award
1994, her first solo cd: "the Kick of the Blues" was brought out and later that year she also sang on the Big Band Nijmegen cd: "Retrospective".
1994 she toured through Bahrain and Kenya.
1997 she did a project with the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra in Holland, Germany & Spain.
2000 she was a guest on the cd "Swing Time!" from the band Captains of Mainstream.
2001 she sang on the cd "Summer Sessions 2001".
2002 she was a guest on the cd "A Living Legend" from the saxophone legend Harry Verbeke.
2002 a new summer project with the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra in The Netherlands.
2003 a new cd was released with Clous van Mechelen playing the saxophone: “Songs for Sale”, BMCD 341. Record label: Munich Records.
2004 a new summer project (Brazilian style) with the Royal Dutch Airforce Orchestra in The Netherlands.
2007 she was invited to sing in Russia, in Moscow & Tver

Review: "... Still, while performing she gives a lot more than just a professional show; she gives herself. That enormous physical expressiveness, the willingness to throw herself deeply into a song, the art of swingingly taking in tow a full concert hall, is part of her being. From the top of her head to the tip of her toes she ís music...." (Jan Rensen.)