Marlene Bakker is a rare appearance in the Dutch music scene. She’s a one of a kind songwriter with a distinguished sound and is blessed with a stunning layered voice that you just have to listen to. Her music has an entirely unique place within the music industry because she writes and sings in a dialect called Gronings. 
This dialect is spoken in the province of Groningen and is part of the Dutch Low Saxon language that covers the northeast of the Netherlands and the Northwest region of Germany. 

Her debut album RAIF, which was released on her own label RAIF Records, gained national acclaim and was highly praised with several five-star reviews. Never before was the Groninger dialect connected to cinematic arrangements that sound so contemporary, in which the songs of a singer/songwriter are carefully draped in dreamy and broad sounds. RAIF is a unique listening experience, a serene and melancholic spell which is lovingly crafted and captured into sound. Somehow, it’s just incredibly romantic.

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