Samantha Steenwijk is fed up with prejudices about folk singers | NOW

Samantha Steenwijk sometimes has the idea that she has to work harder because she is a folk singer. The singer notices that there are many prejudices about the music genre of her and her colleagues.

In conversation with Veronica Magazine Steenwijk quotes a column by Saskia Noort. In which she wrote something like: ‘That Samantha Steenwijk also gives her opinion on TV.’ She mentioned me in the same breath with Dave Roelvink and dismissed folk singers as right and stupid. “

Noort wrote in her column AD in February about Roelvink who asked questions about feminism in a video. In her column she mentioned Steenwijk and Roelvink’s father Dries in one sentence. “You know, the son of Dries: the folk singer who was also allowed to give his opinion for a while with Sven Kockelmann on Radio 1, like Samantha Steenwijk at RTL Boulevard commented on the Grammy Awards, where she found it necessary to say that she didn’t like Billie Eilish, the big favorite, because all too gloomy. “

In the rest of the column, Noort does not write about folk singers in general, or about Steenwijk. Another column in which the singer is mentioned by name cannot be found.

Yet Steenwijk constantly feels that he has to defend himself. “You don’t know what you’re saying; I did secondary school and who says I’m right wing? I think that’s a shame of her, but as a folk singer you often get that kind of prejudice.”

Steenwijk finds it important to show that she can do more. “I know I can do anything. I got that with the TV show Dear Singers show. I have sung rock, Spanish and Italian to prove that I am not that simple folk singer. But I also think it’s a nice compliment that you are from the people. “

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