Marloes Oudeman(The Netherlands)
Marloes grew up in a very musical family and started taking piano lessons at an early age. Soon, she was playing Pop, Jazz and Latin in several bands. At the age of 17, she started her studies at the Rotterdam Conservatory (School Music Department 1 st grade) and graduated in 2002.
In her second year at the Rotterdam Conservatory, she combined her studies with vocals at the Pop Academy and start working as a singer.
The last 6 years, she works as a music and drama teacher at a secondary school, grades k7 to 12. In addition, she produces big theater productions, as artistic leader she was dealing with the direction, choreography and music.
Also, she did a lot of backing vocals in various bands and in 2005 she started her study for theatre director and actor.
In May 2007 she gave up everything to start traveling for a year around Asia, worked for a while as a dive master, but since a few months she exchanged the Indonesian oceans for the Kathmandu Jazz conservatory.
Currently she teaches vocals, theory and choir and gives teachers and theatre production trainings at KJC and is playing with her own Dutch vocal trio “Poesie & the Fags” and in several other musical projects with friends.