Īndy and his brothers began playing at a hotel for only 2,50 guilders a week. Afterwards, Tielman received a guitar at a discount and only a small down payment. The owner forbid him to touch anything, until the siblings played some Elvis tunes for the owner and his family. The siblings, who required new instruments, went into a music shop to replace Andy's broken guitar. Tielman later recalled that their first boarding house was "really sad" and said that music was the only thing that kept them going. Their initial years in the Netherlands were difficult. In 1957 the Tielman family moved to the Netherlands, first to a boarding house in Breda and later to The Hague. Anti-Dutch sentiments also affected Indo celebrities, including the Tielman siblings, and when they were pressured into forgoing their Dutch nationality the family repatriated to the Netherlands. Dutch businesses and other properties were seized, Dutch social services were stopped, Dutch schools were banned and the last Dutch nationals were expelled. In the late 1950s anti-Dutch rules and regulations increased, leading up to an escalation of the Dutch New Guinea conflict it was feared that the Bersiap violence would be repeated. Aside from the family band, Andy also played with Dolf de Vries' band The Starlights in Jakarta, as well as Freddy Wehner's Hawaiian band in Sumatra. In an interview Tielman recalled: "This was the first song which my brothers and I converted into rock 'n roll by adding drums to it." The band began playing rock and roll music by Les Paul, Elvis Presley, Little Richard, Bill Haley, Fats Domino, Chuck Berry and Gene Vincent. In 1951 they were introduced to the song "Guitar Boogie" by Arthur "Guitar Boogie" Smith. The siblings' repertoire included both American and traditional Indonesian music.īy the time the Netherlands formally recognised Indonesia's independence in 1949, the Tielman siblings had become a household name they even performed for President Sukarno at his palace in Jakarta. Within half a year they were performing throughout nascent Indonesia, which had proclaimed its independence after the Japanese surrender. By that time, Andy and his siblings were performing jazz standards at private functions using the musical training their father had given them. My whole world just fell apart." Īfter the Japanese surrendered in 1945, the family was reunited. He later recalled "When war came the world was broken. When the Japanese invaded the Indies, the elder Tielman was imprisoned Andy and his siblings were taken care of by his mother. Aside from Andy, the couple had 5 children: Reggy, Phonton, Loulou (Lawrence), and Jane (Janette Loraine). Both his father, a KNIL captain named Herman Tielman, and his mother, Flora Laurentine Hess, were Indo-European. In 2011 Tielman died of gastric cancer.Īndy Tielman was born in Makassar, Celebes, Dutch East Indies on. In 2005 he was awarded a Royal decoration in the Order of Orange Nassau. During Tielman's heyday in the 1950s and 1960s, the Tielman Brothers were hailed as the best live act in Europe and received the highest fees. Tielman is credited with releasing the first Dutch rock and roll single, in 1958, and led the first Dutch rock band with international appeal, the Tielman Brothers, in a career that spanned seven decades, from the mid 1950s to his death in 2011. Many Dutch musicians, including Jan Akkerman, Barry Hay, and Herman Brood have cited him as major influences. He was known for his wide vocal range (5 octaves) and virtuoso guitar playing as well as his showmanship. He is considered one of the most important figures in Dutch popular music, and "defied the notion that early rock and roll was a phenomenon of white and black musicians from America". Andy Tielman ( – 10 November 2011) was an influential Indo (Eurasian) artist, recognised as the "godfather" of Indorock, the style of rock and roll played by Indo artists in the 1950s and 1960s.
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