Erwin Java

Erwin Raymond Java (Assen, 1956^[1]) is a Dutch guitarist, active since the 1970s, and a music teacher.

Biography[edit]

Java got his first guitar, a Fender Stratocaster, from his father when he was a teenager.^[2] After attending the gymnasium in Assen, he studied Dutch language and literature at the Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. Later he attained a degree in music, majoring in guitar, from the Prince Claus Conservatoire.^[1]

One of his first bands was White Honey, from 1978 to 1981, where he played with Hanneke Kappen. When that band stopped, he joined Herman Brood's Wild Romance (1980–1981),^[3]^[1] and in 1986 joined Cuby and the Blizzards,^[4] a band headed by singer Harry Muskee, for whom Java was a chauffeur for a quarter of a century.^[5] Java also plays as a session musician and produces music,^[1] and has recorded with and done production for Marjol Flore, Splitsing, Gina de Wit, Bertus Borgers, Daniel Sahuleka, Kaz Lux, and Tineke Schoemaker.

In 1996 he co-founded the Noorder Muziek Instituut in Groningen, a professional private music school, where he also taught guitar.^[1]

Source: Encyclopedie van Drenthe.^[1]

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "Java, Erwin Raymond". Encyclopedie van Drenthe. Vol. 1. Van Gorcum. 2003. p. 452. ISBN 9789023239321.
^ Fender Stratocaster viert z'n zestigste verjaardag, Leeuwarder Courant, 25 January 2014 (in Dutch)
^ van der Meer, Alex (23 March 2021). "Terugblik: de betekenis van Het Groninger Springtij". 3VOOR12 (in Dutch). Retrieved 20 August 2021.
^ "Muskee, Harry". Encyclopedie van Drenthe. Vol. 1. Van Gorcum. 2003. pp. 634–35. ISBN 9789023239321.
^ van Egmond, Michel; Scheulderman, Antoinnette (2021). Derksen: Het spraakmakende leven van Johan Derksen. Overamstel. p. 85. ISBN 9789048858682.