The record boss tried to sell Jannes’ first CD. “We really had to go to the farmer,” he says. “People said,” Who calls himself Jannes? ” Then I said, “Yes, that’s just his name.” Now Jannes was already a concept.
Jannes experienced his big broke in with his second album, where songs were stood like Eleonora and Go away. The pictures went over the counter in Ruinen like hot sandwiches. Print: “I once walked into the Free Record Shop, if they also had CDs from Jannes. No, they said, regional music was not sold there. Well, I answered, I sold 175 today.”
When Jannes grew bigger and also became fame, he left for record label CNR Records. “We were not a record company at all, we just sold CDs. Then a representative of CNR got a breath of it. And of course Jannes also wanted to be at the TROS Music Festival.”
Jannes experienced the great successes of the early years with producer Martin Sterken. Father Joop then sold the music of Sterken in his CD store in Klazienaveen and was impressed by his ‘sound’. Joop then asked Sterken if he wanted to work with his son. The Emmenaren eventually made three albums together as inexperienced musicians.
The first, Bella BiancA, was not a success yet. But the second, By Casablanca to Napoliturned out to be a pearl. “The level shot up,” Sterken recalls. “Jannes clearly indicated his wishes. He wanted to stay close to his feelings and translate that into his songs. It had to be exciting and Jannes hoped to take people into the story. An example: the song Go away We initially wanted to bring it as ‘lust’, the same melody, but Jannes wanted short words. “
When Sterken, who no longer produces for Jannes but still writes songs, walked through the center of Hoogeveen one day, and a boy in a Volkswagen Golf with an arm outside the music of Jannes was singing loudly, the producer realized that Jannes’s popularity went through the roof. “The songs were fun, but Jannes was only really known when he also showed himself on stages. He has charisma, shows respect to the audience and shows that he is grateful every day for all the appreciation he receives.