Alex Roeka

Alex Roeka was born in Ravenstein, North Brabant. Between the ages of nine and eighteen he attended various boarding schools, where his love for music and poetry was awakened. After high school he went to study psychology in Nijmegen. He interrupted his studies for seamanship, only to graduate a year later in Amsterdam and start working as a psychologist. In the meantime, the blood continued to crawl where it could not go. Alex Roeka got involved in music and started writing Dutch songs. In 1996 his first album Zee Van Onrust was released , which was immediately translated into a first theatre show.
In 2000 he received the Annie MG Schmidt Prize for the song Noem 't Geen Liefde . From that moment on the albums and theatre programmes followed each other. A collection of his texts was published. Edisons were won. Hearts conquered. The collaboration with the band Johan eventually brought Alex Roeka to the pop stage circuit.

His Odyssey along the Dutch and Belgian halls has rightly been called the Music Theatre of the Autobiographical Stream after more than 25 years . Transport is all that remains for us, the audience.