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Izaline Calister

Biography(last updated Nov 07th, 2000)

 

Izaline Calister started her singing career in her native Curaçao, where she was a member of a well-known children’s choir called Perlitas.

With this choir she made many albums, performed in television specials and on stage.

At age eighteen, Izaline left for the Netherlands to broaden her musical horizons and study music at the conservatory in Groningen. During this time she started singing in different vocal groups and bands, specializing in Caribbean music and Salsa.

A meeting with renowned jazz pianist and keyboarder Jasper van ‘t Hof during her auditions at the conservatory lead him to ask her to join his band Pili Pili as the lead singer following Angelique Kidjo who had just left the band.

In this band Izaline worked with the likes of Tony Lakatos, Peter Weniger, Annie Whitehead and Bo Stief.

With Pili Pili Izaline recorded two CDs and toured all over Europe.

Since 1997 Izaline is a