Jelte Tuinsma, better known as Jett Rebel, is an amazing, young Dutch pop/rock-artist. He is a singer, writer and a multi-instrumentalist.

Having sung in a choir and as background for Dutch artists like Rob de Nijs en Jochem van Gelder as a child, Jelte has been a musician all his life. In 2003 he plays on the Dutch program, the Junior Songfestival, with his band The Edge. He goes to the Conservatorium Amsterdam, a professional and highly regarded school of music. Meanwhile, he plays for the bands The Souldiers and (

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In 2012, Jelte decides to go solo and rebranded himself Jett Rebel. He starts writing songs, plays all the instruments himself and produces the songs by himself in his bedroom. In 2013, the first EP appears called “Venus”, followed by the “Mars”-EP the same year. The singles do well on the dutch charts, of which “Louise” gets the most attention. It appears at 1171 at the Dutch mega-musiclist the Top2000, traditionally played in full from christmas to New Year’s.

In 2014, Jett Rebel releases Hits for Kids, his debut. Jett still plays all instruments and performs all singing himself, but production is placed in the hands of Tony Platt, a London Producer. Specifically written for the film by Jett, ‘On Top of The World’ is part of the soundtrack for The Amazing Spider-Man 2. In plays during the credits.

Jett now gets more and more attention, from radiostations, television shows, the art world in general. Het starts gaining fans: shows get bigger, go from small venues to big concert halls and (61!) festivals, among which Pinkpop and Lowlands. Jett’s second album is a live album, from the live shows at Paradiso, Amsterdam, which shows Jett’s great talent for live performing. It is called ‘Tight Like a Baby Tiger’.

The fast-growing celebrity gets to him. In an interview on february 9, 2015, he says:
“All this talking about myself gets distracting and I don’t see myself as the type of artist that hops from tv-show to tv-show. I just want to make music.”

But business and productivity both fare well and still do. Since 2015, Jett Rebel owns his own label called “Baby Tiger Records”. In 2016, Jett announces he will bring out three albums. The first, ‘Truck’ shows off his great creativity. It contains 27 songs, but clocks in just under an hour. “Not looking for hits,” it is a more experimental album: all songs are recorded on a Tascam Porta 4-track cassette recorder. Again, all songs are performed fully and solely by Jett. Album number two is a live album, recording during a 10-day-11-show tour in New York, but full of new songs. At the start of 2017–a few days late–number three arrives: ‘Super Pop’.

A Dutch documentary shows Jett talking about his life and music, and venturing to guitar-builder Sjak Zwier to add a new instrument for his collection.

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