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Froukje
From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist
Froukje Veenstra was born in 2001 in Nieuwkoop. She went to school in Alphen aan den Rijn and at sixteen moved to Rotterdam to study at Codarts, the conservatoire. She belongs to the generation that around 2020 first found an audience through social media and streaming, and only afterwards through radio and a record company.
Music and breakthrough
Her first song, Groter dan ik, appeared in early 2020. It began as a study assignment at the conservatoire and became a protest song about the climate crisis. Within a year it had been streamed 1.7 million times. Later that year came Ik wil dansen, her first song in the Single Top 100. In 2021 that title became a slogan at protests for the reopening of nightlife, when clubs were closed because of the coronavirus measures. Froukje writes her music with a laptop, a guitar or a keyboard, and makes synth-pop: electronic sounds with clear, personal lyrics. The EP Licht en donker (January 2021) reached second place in the album chart.
Influence
After the EP Uitzinnig (2022), her first album, Noodzakelijk verdriet, appeared in January 2024. It reached number 1 in the Netherlands and Flanders and won an Edison for best album in 2025. She also collaborated with the rapper S10. Froukje follows an old line in Dutch-language pop. Boudewijn de Groot sang a protest song about the Vietnam War in 1966. She sings in her own language about the future of the planet, for an audience her own age.
Listening
Groter dan ik · Froukje, 2020Apple Music ↗
Discography
Studio albums
In School of Rock
The chapters, maps and magazine stories of School of Rock are currently available in Dutch only.
- Mixtape 11: NederpopNL Reader
Mentioned in other articles
- Dutch-language song Genre
Around 2020 Snelle and Froukje found their audience through TikTok and YouTube.
- Groter dan ik Song
In 2021, Froukje Veenstra broke through with electropop in Dutch.