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Wout Steenhuis
Musical artist
Wout Steenhuis (23 February 1923 – 9 July 1985) was a Dutch multi-instrumentalist.
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Biography
Steenhuis was born in The Hague, Netherlands. As a student in occupied Holland he listened to black market jazz records - banned by the Germans as "decadent" - every day, using "illegal" equipment centered around a radio glued under a bookshelf which he used as an amplifier.
He helped to found the famous Dutch Swing College Band in 1943, played his guitar at secret parties, and moved into a flat with Peter Schilperoort, the band's leader, to start on the road to becoming one of the country's top jazz musicians.[1] He had originally planned to pursue a science degree, but, in 1940, the Germans forbade him going to university because his father was in England.
He became active in the Dutch Resistance and was captured by the Germans in December 1944 and sent to a concentration camp at Amersfoort. He was among a lorry load of prisoners condemned