Jacqueline Govaert
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Jacqueline Govaert (born 20 April 1982) is a Dutch singer and pianist who currently plays with the band Krezip and has also been a guest singer for Ayreon. She is the main song writer of the band and is known for being very expressive while on stage.
Govaert belong with the first graduating people from the Dutch Rockacademy in Tilburg. At a very young age she started with music. When she was twelve she started to write songs on her piano. At highschool she already started the band Krezip. She is the main writer for the band and plays the piano in the band. But since her fellow bandmember Annelies Kuijsters had a hand injury and therefore wasn't allowed to play guitar anymore, Annelies became the bands pianist. Jacqueline is happy about it because "...now I can concentrate on my performance."
She has been a guest singer at several projects for several artist. Such as the musicproject Ayreon, Dutch band Relax (on the album Odeur de Clochard), Armin van Buuren and Fernando Lameirinhas.
In 2006 Jacqueline borrowed her voice to the anthem for the TMF Awards of 2006. Together with The Partysquad, Extince and Caprice they recorded the song and preformed it during the opening of the TMF Awards. During the few weeks after the Awards the song became so populair, TMF decided to release the song as a single. On December 9, 2007 it reached the #4 spot in the Dutch pysical+download chart Top 100, only with downloads.
