I’m Andrew Vroomans. A singer/songwriter/producer from Amsterdam, The Netherlands. In Europe, that is.
It feels like I have been writing and singing songs about life and love and emotions since birth. These days I even do that professionally. The musical thing, not birth….
I love playing either my own songs, or those tons of great magical songs that have been written in the past 50-odd years. The songs I write are in whichever style I feel fits the songs’ subjects best. Melody and harmony and atmospheres and words are my means to get the stories across. I perform and record these songs both solo and with my bands The Rodberries and Cry Ugly.
The band is a britrocking-outfit. We draw heavily from the great, great music of the 60’s and 70’s. We almost wish we would have been there in those days! Music seems to have been so much more exciting and in development back then. But then again, those were also the times when you couldn’t take your musical career in your own hands and work it all out for yourself as you can these days. In the band we bring in our own ideas and different influences, so there is some modern-ness in us as well, don’t worry! We’ve played festivals and clubs and bars and radio and TV.
However, apart from the band, I started wondering what mixing the Beatles with Fat Boy Slim and Sex Pistols and ambient noise might sound like. Or how I could stack up super-melodic popsongs with layered guitars and experimental effects….. I also concluded at one point that so many things have been done over and over already, and done well, that a lot of music has just become boring because of that. So I decided I should explore more and stretch out the borders of musical style and convention: classic supermelodic pop/rock-songs beefed up with electronics and distortion and everyday-life samples. Or at least challenge myself and never settle for the easy way out. Even if the outcome is something that other people might recognize, as long as I surprise myself, I’m okay with what I’m doing.

My name is Andrew Vroomans. I write songs. And I perform them. On recordings and live. I live in Amsterdam. Netherlands. Europe.
 
Nothing made little boy Andrew feel better than
music. The radio, the suitcase record player, my uncle’s headphones – out of all
those things came something magical. Once I discovered people could not just
listen to it, but also make up their own music, I couldn’t imagine anything
greater to do with my life than making music. Sure, there were times when I told
people that I wanted to be an astronaut or a comedian when I grew up, but that
was just tough talk.
Gradually I changed my goal-for-life to writing my own
music; recording and releasing and performing it. The
making-enough-money-to-live-off-making-music-concept obviously came later, at
first I didn’t know that it was even possible to make a living doing something
fun. Some people still don’t realize that when they’ve so grown up they almost
retire from working, and I was only a child. Nobody told me about and the
people around me didn’t seem to enjoy what they did for a living. But I just
felt sure I could do it, if I really put my mind to it. So, I put my mind to it
and started to just do it. I decided I wanted a guitar at age ten and had
finally saved up enough money to buy one when I was eleven, and then set out on
a slippery journey to learn how to play it and how to write songs of my own. 
And here I am, now able to proudly say that for over fifteen years I’ve been living as a professional musician. Mainly on the pop
and rock side of the musical spectrum. I sing and play guitar: as a solo-artist and in my own
bands. I play my original songs, but I also work with coverbands. And not just for
the cash, but mostly because I love playing those great, great songs that I
wish I had written myself.
Still, to me there’s nothing more magical than making some beautiful out of nothing. The whole
process of starting of with a single word or melodic phrase and then developing
that, through that one blurry stretch of time that ends with creating the
song’s first demo, rewriting the imperfect little sketch and finally ending up
with a finished recording really is magical!