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 albums RAIF and Oaventuren, which were released on her label RAIF Records, gained national acclaim and were both highly praised with several  four and 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. This 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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