Renaté Bianca

Bij Jou
 

Dutch Lyrics

English Translation

In July I wrote the lyrics to a new song, “Log Uit”, which I've been putting to music this week. I don't always write directly into Sibelius, but I did for this one, simply because I can't always get my…

I'm reversing out of the driveway and this line comes to me, “If she's lashing out in anger and shouting in your face, know that she trusts you more than any man whose ever stood in your place.”

An hour…

Excerpt from my Residency Diary:

September 29th, 2025

“Day 3 (or 4 depending on how you count) of my residency. I've written a song, ‘Wind & Seed’, in these first couple of days, scored the melody with a bassline -…

This month I spent another week away for my Arts Tasmania residency. 

One of my projects is to write new material for a Dutch/English release, so on day three and four of this 2nd week of my residency I decided…

This week I wrote the lyrics for a new Dutch song, titled ‘Ongelezen Brief’ (Unread Letter). 

The theme of this song is holding love in your heart for someone who can't or won't receive what you have to give. Whether…

"100% Heerlijk Mens" is an upbeat and humorous Dutch contemporary pop song about body-image and self-acceptance. This video describes the conceptual development of this song, with the an A and B section played as a live demo of the song…

It’s June 13th, day four of my Arts Tasmania supported residency here in Tassie. I’ve written two Dutch/Multilingual songs in my first three days here - ‘Almost Kiwi’ and ‘Kibbeling’ - and I set myself the…

Wednesday, June 11th. It’s day two of my residency. I am on a mission to write a second song

I start with mucking around on the piano (in Dutch we call this ‘pingelen’), until I have a four…

“I am not emerging until I have written…