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Gerrit Den Braber
also recorded as Lodewijk Post
Gerrit Den Braber is credited on 825 releases across 217 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2024 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
825
Credits
217
Albums
7
Decades active
12
In collections
Biography
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Radio DJ, songwriter and producer, born 23 March 1929 in Rotterdam, Netherlands, died 2 May 1997 in Hilversum, Netherlands.
Often using an alias, Den Braber has (co-)written many popular songs such as Johnny Lion's Sophietje (1965), Conny Vandenbos' Een Roosje, M'n Roosje (1974) and Mouth & MacNeal's Ik Zie Een Ster (1974).
In 1947 he was a co-founder of Rotterdam Hospital Broadcast (RANO, short name for Radio Noord).
In 1955 he began working for Dutch Broadcast Society the AVRO. His most famous programm was "Rooster" in the mid sixties, with a panel judging the latest popsingles.
In 1966 he became a producer for Phonogram.
After he divorced he fell in love with famous Dutch songstress Thérèse Steinmetz. They started living together until his death in 1997.
Bio from Discogs
Credited work
825 releases · 217 albums · active 1962–2024
- Performance · 784
- Production · 289
- Other credits · 89
- Engineering · 1
Studios: MC Studio · Soundpush Studios · Wisseloord Studios · Dureco Studio
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Various
- Conny Vandenbos
- André van Duin
- Cornelis Vreeswijk
- Teach-In
- Ramses Shaffy
- Thérèse Steinmetz
- "Cast of ""Ja Zuster, Nee Zuster"""
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