Lea Kliphuis

''Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Not only The Smiths were charmed by these words, Lea Kliphuis was also inspired by Mark Twain. It gave her the confidence and drive to dive into the studio with a number of her favorite musicians after a period of searching and not finding. Together with JP Hoekstra, Marien Dorleijn and the rhythm section of De Staat (Jop van Summeren and Tim van Delft) she rediscovered her sacred fire in the hinterland of Groningen and a second album was ignited.

“We left out more than we included.”
After the much-praised debut Can I Come By?, The World Owes Me Nothing was characterized by an extensive simplicity. In line with heroes such as Lucinda Williams, the later Beck and especially Robert Plant with Alison Krauss, Lea Kliphuis managed to say everything with few resources. Trouw once expressed it as follows: "after Tim Knol, Lea is the second Dutch sensation who commutes so effortlessly between subtle and sublime". We are waiting for the next heavenly collision with Lea's shuttle bus.