TOTAL TOUCH
Total Touch
Pop group from Amsterdam that combines '90s rhythm & blues and dance with '80s soul.
Members
Trijntje Oosterhuis
zang
Tjeerd Oosterhuis
achtergrondzang, toetsinstrumenten
Former members
Antoon Tolsma
percussie
Sola Van Motman
basgitaar
Yazmin Neuhaus
achtergrondzang
Nelson Gomies
gitaar
Cyril Directie
drums
Marcellino Latupeirissa
drums
Willem Nuruwe
basgitaar
Caroline Dest
achtergrondzang
Arnold van Dongen
gitaar
Fred van Straten
flugelhorn, trompet
Marcel Dorenbos
gitaar
Berget Lewis
achtergrondzang
Mentioned in the biography of
1987
Tjeerd Oosterhuis
1989
Berget Lewis
1989
One Track Charlie
1990
De Gigantjes
1990
Fred van Straten
1991
Ross & Iba
1991
Super & The Allstars
1994
Arnold van Dongen
1995
Revelation Time
1996
Candy Dulfer
1996
Jeroen van Iterson
1996
Trijntje Oosterhuis
1997
Marco Borsato
1997
Voices In Motion
1998
Leendert Haaksma
1998
Marco Borsato
1998
New Cool Collective
1999
Candy Dulfer
2001
Edsilia Rombley
2001
Kane
2003
First Show Band
2004
Edsilia Rombley
2004
Karin Bloemen
Biography Total Touch
Pop group from Amsterdam that combines '90s rhythm & blues and dance with '80s soul.
1987 - 1991
Trijntje and her brother Tjeerd Oosterhuis have been performing from early childhood.
1994
They have been making their own music since high school. Trijntje joins Candy Dulfer and her band.
1996
Total Touch's debut single Touch Me There is released in February and reaches number 13 in the Dutch charts. Their debut album Total Touch is released the following month and becomes platinum. The single Somebody Else's Lover reaches number 3 in the charts and becomes gold. The band's third single, One Moment Your Mind, also enters the top 3. The band performs at the renowned North Sea Jazz Festival and Trijntje has a solo hit with a Dutch song called De Zee ('The Sea'). In September and October Total Touch is support act for Michael Jackson in Amsterdam.
1998
The single I'll Say Goodbye is released followed by the band's second album This Way. The second single taken from the album is Love Me In Slowmotion. Another track, Doo Be La Dee, is released in the US. Remixed by the likes of Mark Pitchiotti and Frankie Knuckles, it enters Billboard's Latin charts. Tjeerd writes the song Vlieg Met Me Mee ('Come Fly With Me') for the Dutch film Abeltje, which is released on single and sung by Trijntje.
1999
Despite their efforts Total Touch does not manage to make it big outside of The Netherlands and Trijntje and Tjeerd decide to split up for a while. Both work on solo projects and Trijntje performs with Herbie Hancock at the 24th edition of the North Sea Jazz Festival.
2002
In March Trijntje embarks on a theatre tour with jazz pianist Michiel Borstlap. She signs a multiple album solo deal with EMI. Her solo career doesn't really come as a surprise after a string of solo performances.
2003
In the spring the sampler The Best Of Total Touch is released on both CD and DVD.
2004
Tjeerd Oosterhuis records the soundtrack for the film Feestje! ('Let's Party!') by Ruud van Hemert. Especially for charity organisation Memisa Oosterhuis composes music for a benefit concert for Bangladesh. On November 28 the music is performed, featuring singers Karin Bloemen and Edsilia Rombley.
Discography Total Touch
Albums | Singles | Compilations | Other | Guestperformance
Total Touch
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CD, 1996 |
Label | Ariola, 74321 353172 |
gastmuzikant | Candy Dulfer |
gastmuzikant | Leendert Haaksma |
gastmuzikant | Fred van Straten |
gastmuzikant | Henkjan Smits |
gastmuzikant | Roger Happel |
engineer | Patrick Mühren |
gastmuzikant | Andre Legrand |
gastmuzikant | Josefien Melief |
engineer | Jean-Marc Kessely |
engineer | Sander van der Heide |
Chart position |
11-05-1996, Albumlijst, 99 weeks, number 2
17-10-1998, Albumlijst, 2 weeks, number 90 |
This Way
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CD, 1998 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-566702 |
gastmuzikant | Hans Eijkenaar |
gastmuzikant | Leendert Haaksma |
gastmuzikant | Kees ten Dam |
gastmuzikant | Sander Baas |
gastmuzikant | Fred van Straten |
gastmuzikant | Benjamin Herman |
engineer | Jean-Marc Kessely |
gastmuzikant | DJ Knowhow |
gastmuzikant | Peter Lieberom |
engineer | Sander van der Heide |
gastmuzikant | Seija Teeuwen |
gastmuzikant | Wim Kok |
gastmuzikant | Elizabeth Liefkes-Cats |
gastmuzikant | Lorre Lynn Trytten |
gastmuzikant | Pauline Terlouw |
gastmuzikant | Erica Korthals Altes |
Chart position |
06-06-1998, Albumlijst, 45 weeks, number 1
19-06-1999, Albumlijst, 1 week, number 96 |
Collections
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CD, 2006 |
Label | BMG |
gastmuzikant | Fred van Straten |
Inescapable
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | 7", 1991 |
Label | Kunstenbende, TT 01 |
B-side | Supervision |
One Moment Your Mind
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1996 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-442442 |
Chart position |
14-12-1996, Top 40, 6 weeks, number 23
|
Somebody Else's Lover
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1996 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-393282 |
engineer | John Tilly |
gastmuzikant | Josefien Melief |
gastmuzikant | Cecilia Oomes |
Chart position |
28-09-1996, Top 40, 16 weeks, number 3
|
Touch Me There
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1996 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-353182 |
B-side | Show Me Your Smile |
Chart position |
25-05-1996, Top 40, 10 weeks, number 14
|
Standin' Strong Together
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1997 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-476602 6 |
B-side | For This Moment Only |
engineer | John Tilly |
arrangeur | Sebastiaan Koolhoven |
gastmuzikant | Fred van Straten |
Chart position |
17-05-1997, Top 40, 4 weeks, number 27
|
I'll Say Goodbye
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1998 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-578762 |
B-side | Doobeeladee |
engineer | Sander van der Heide |
engineer | Jean-Marc Kessely |
engineer | John Tilly |
Chart position |
25-04-1998, Top 40, 14 weeks, number 5
|
Love Me In Slow Motion
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1998 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-60268-2 |
B-side | I'll Say Goodbye |
Chart position |
22-08-1998, Top 40, 5 weeks, number 21
|
Love Me In Slow Motion
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1998 |
Label | Ariola, 60672-2 |
B-side | One Moment Your Mind/Higher And Higher/Moment Of Truth |
engineer | John Tilly |
gastmuzikant | Mike Hendriks |
Forgive, Won't Forget
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | CDS, 1999 |
Label | Ariola, 74321-670222 |
B-side | Frogive, Won't Forget (instrumental) |
arrangeur | Olof Groesz |
gastmuzikant | Fred van Straten |
gastmuzikant | Benjamin Herman |
engineer | Sander van der Heide |
engineer | Jean-Marc Kessely |
engineer | John Tilly |
gastmuzikant | Seija Teeuwen |
gastmuzikant | Pauline Terlouw |
gastmuzikant | Wim Kok |
gastmuzikant | Lorre Lynn Trytten |
gastmuzikant | Elizabeth Liefkes-Cats |
gastmuzikant | Erica Korthals Altes |
Chart position |
29-05-1999, Top 40, Tip
|
The best of Total Touch & Trijntje Oosterhuis
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | Compilatie, 2003 |
Label | BMG, 82876 502342 |
Chart position |
15-02-2003, Albumlijst, 14 weeks, number 13
12-07-2003, Albumlijst, 8 weeks, number 45 |
The best of Total Touch & Trijntje Oosterhuis
Act | Total Touch |
Type and year | DVD, 2003 |
Label | BMG, 82876 500669 |
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