Jack Poels

From HitStory, the pop encyclopedia of School of Rock · Artist

Jack Poels is a Dutch singer, guitarist and harmonica player. He was born on 27 June 1957 in America, a village in Limburg. He is best known as the lead singer of the Limburg dialect band Rowwen Hèze, for which he writes almost all the music and lyrics. From the mid-1970s he sang with the not very successful band Bad Edge. In 1985 he took the place of the singer of The Legendary Texas Four, a band from his own village.

Music and breakthrough

His music is a mixture of folk, Tex-Mex and accordion music. In his lyrics he talks a lot about his own life. On the album Vandaag from 2001 he sings about his newborn little son, on Dageraad from 2003 about his divorce, and Rodus & Lucius is about his life afterwards. The first Rowwen Hèze album is called Blieve Loëpe, and the emblem on the sleeve is by his own hand: the Statue of Liberty with a cigarette, a clog and a jug of beer. He also designed the sleeve of Dageraad.

Influence

Since 2003 he has worked with Leon Giesen on the project Holland America Lijn. In 2007 he was appointed a knight in the Order of Orange-Nassau, and the transport company Veolia named a train after him. Since 2009 he has published a poem every two weeks in Dagblad de Limburger. Poels shows that a regional language and a local story can reach a large audience, without the music losing its origins.

Listening

Discography

Studio albums

• 2020Blauwe Vear
• 2021II

Mentioned in other articles

• Dialect pop and rock GenreRowwen Hèze from America in northern Limburg, founded in 1985 around the singer Jack Poels, blended rock with folk and accordion.

See also

• Dialect pop and rock