Yves Berendse (31) wondered for a long time whether he would ever break through as an artist, and he took the age of his senior colleague Jeroen van der Boom (52) as a benchmark, he reveals …
For newcomers such as Marco Schuitmaker and Robert van Hemert, it seems to be exciting whether they are not a day fly, but it is different for Yves Berendse. He has suddenly become an enórm great artist and that is mainly due to his songs in time and sense of you. His breakthrough came quite late, and that made him nervous.
Hope for breakthrough
For a long time Yves wondered if he would break through at all, he says in the Mezza. “My life would not have been less if I hadn’t experienced this. Otherwise of course. I have to say that I had already abandoned the hope for such a breakthrough. “
What do you mean then? “I am already 31, it happened richly late. In recent years I have taken Jeroen van der Boom as a kind of benchmark. He broke through with you are so when he was 34. I thought for the past year: if I am 34, 35 and it has not been successful, then it will be difficult. ”
Not just like Roxy
Yves already saw himself as a somewhat helpless artist. “Will I be that bread singer who goes out every weekend? If I look back on it now, it seems in terms of timing as if everything was directed. “
He concludes: “Someone like Roxy Dekker is already a star at the age of nineteen, an age when you should be able to step with your girlfriends and do what you want. I had that freedom until I was thirty. I can only say that it went perfectly for me. “