Candy Dulfer Is a Successful Saxophonist

Candy Dulfer a Dutch smooth jazz alto saxophonist was born on 19th Sept 1969 in Amsterdam. She was born by a saxophonist Hans Dulfer and this shows that this passion flows in her. At a tender age of five she started playing drums but later at the age of six she was playing Soprano Saxophone whereby at the age of seven she changed to alto saxophone which lead her to a band by the name Jeugd Doet leven that means youth brings life. Her first stage performance was with her father's band De Perikels where she played her first solo.

She did her first album "I dint ask" at the age of eleven only and this showed her dedication and passion in her work. In 1982 she took a role as a member of Rosa King ladies Horn section at The North Sea Jazz Festival which motivated her to becoming a band leader and in 1984 she started her own band "Funky Stuff" just at the age of fourteen which was amazing. Her band did outrageous performances throughout Netherlands including Madonna's opening acts in 1987. Following these the Prince invited her to play an improvised solo on stage at one of his European shows. Candy Dulfer posters can be found here.

In 1989 and in 1990 she released a debut album by the name Sexuality which led to her nomination for a Grammy and received a gold certificate for world wide sales." Lily was here" here song attained position 11 on American Billboard Hot 100 chart. She continued with outrages performances and in 2007 she produced Candy stores her 9th album that attained position 2 in Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz Charts and the song Candy Store attained position 1 in smooth Jazz National Airplay charts. Dulfer has a passion in her work and this has led to training her self through music and instruments with just few months of music lessons.