“She has guts and charm!, perfect timing, upcoming talent.”
“Straight from the heart.......,strong and convincing!”

Saskia Groenenberg has been performing on many stages in The Netherlands and abroad with various pop, soul and jazz formations and was a finalist in the Dutch jazz competition “Erasmus Jazz Prijs” 2003.

At the age of fourteen, Saskia Groenenberg was already performing on the stage of the dutch Jazzfestival “Jazz in Lighttown”. It was her first encounter with jazz and definitely not her last!

She was inspired by the bigband swing from the thirties (mainly Count Basie's bigband) and vocal jazz from the fifties, but also by the blues of Dinah Washington and the soul of Marvin Gaye and Donny Hathaway. She has also been influenced by the jazz, soul and dance music of today, her own generation.

All these styles can be heard in her arrangements but she clearly has a strong identity of her own. She mixes and integrates these styles of music into her own world. It results in arrangements that are fresh and groove and swing at the same time. She has a beautiful round, warm, flexible voice that can move between powerful sounds and smooth, gentle improvisations with ease.

During and after her studies at the Conservatory of Rotterdam (The Netherlands) she gained a lot of experience by performing with various pop and soul bands and founded her own jazz quintet a couple of years ago. In her quintet, she plays with great professional musicians such as Joost Kroon, drummer of famous dutch band “New Cool Collective” and with well known trombone player Ilja Reijngoud.


Saskia Groenenberg has been involved in workshops in The Netherlands and Belgium, did several studio recordings for commercials and otherwise, did many guestperformances, teaches singing and singing techniques and has collaborated with Dutch jazzmusicians such as Frans van Geest, Cees Slinger and Johan Clement. Currently she is composing songs and arrangements for the debut CD of the Saskia Groenenberg quintet. Recently she recorded and presented a CD with vocal group Three Acoustic.

Saskia has been a student of jazzsinger Fay Claassen and took composition classes with Belgium jazzpianist Kris Goessens. She was a soloist with the Big Band of the Rotterdam Conservatory.

With her wonderful band filled with talented musicians Saskia Groenenberg plays her own songs and arrangements that show a rich world of ideas. She tells a strong personal story that is sometimes extremely powerful and sometimes whispered but always moving. Her beautiful warm and flexible voice shows ease but is never afraid to provoke. Influences of jazz ,soul and funk of the sixties and seventies is well heard and translated into a style that is completely her own, and very convincing.

She graduated with compliments about her timing, her soulfulness, fresh approach in her arrangements/specials/lyrics and the beautiful dark soundcolour of her voice. She received praise on her vocal flexibility, diversity, unique style and power!