Bio Simone Roerade ( Mrs.Hips)

Op 5 juni 1969 werd Simone Roerade binnen een muzikaal gezin in Den Haag geboren. Al op 9 jarige leeftijd speelde ze piano en hobo en schreef ze haar eigen liedjes. Vanaf haar 15e begon ze er ook bij te zingen en vanaf dat moment begon ze zich te ontwikkelen tot een echt "podiumbeest"

Op het Rotterdams conservatorium formeerde ze Hips, de funk/soulformatie waarmee ze in 1997 een nummer 1 hit scoorde in Spanje ! Verder ging ze op wereldtournee met Candy Dulfer, maakte een 2e CD met Hips waarvoor ze weer de meeste liedjes schreef, zong heel veel backingvocals voor o.a Kane en Golden Earring en maakte de solo CD "she said"

Simone Roerade besloot naar aanleiding van het geweldige reünieconcert van Hips op aanraden van veel van haar fans weer nieuwe liedjes te gaan schrijven in deze stijl. En zie hier! de CD van Mrs. Hips is bijna een feit. September 2010 komt haar nieuwste cd "give me more" uit.

Verder gegroeid, maar trouw gebleven aan haar roots, is Simone trots op het resultaat! Samen met producer/toetsenkoning Rob Geboers is ze er in geslaagd terug te komen bij de groove van de funk en de soul van de blues...uitgevoerd door geweldige muzikanten:

Chris Strik (drums)
Bart Wijman ( bas)
Rob Geboers ( piano, Fender Rhodes, Wurlitzer, Hammond orgel,Philicorda)
Pieter Klaassen ( gitaar)
Brian Zalmijn ( backingvocals)
Laura Vane ( backingvocals)
the Amstelhorns o.l.v Fred van Straten
special guest: Michiel Borstlap ( Fender Rhodes)

( englisch version)

Biography Simone Roerade ( Mrs.Hips)

Simone was born on the 5th of June 1969 in The Hague, Holland.
When she was just a little kid she played the piano and oboe and she wrote her own music.
At the age of 15 she added her voice to her music and she started to write real pop-songs. She selled her oboe and started her first band. From that moment on she knew she wanted to be a singer! A few bands and years later, she decided to go to the conservatory of Rotterdam to study jazz and popmusic. It was in 1992 she met on that same school a lot of other musicians. A bass-player, Aram Kersbergen had to arrange a session in a club in Rotterdam. He asked Leendert Haaksma( guitar ), Jeroen Rietbergen ( keyboards) Hans Greeve ( drums ) and Simone to play with him. From the first note they played together it was clear……this is gonna be a real groovy band!
The owner of the club asked them to play every Tuesday night and the band HIPS was born. They started to play covers from Chaka Khan, Stevie Wonder and many others, but after a while Simone started to write songs in a funky style, which she never tried before. The club in Rotterdam became a very hot place and several musicians came to the show, to check out the new talented cats. One day saxophone-player Candy Dulfer heard about Simone's incredible voice and she ask her to go with her on tour . It was a hard decision for her because HIPS was getting locally famous, but for her own experience she took Candy's offer and she toured through Europe, America and Japan which was great!

After the tour was finished, she ask trumpet-player Iwan van Hetten from Candy's band to join HIPS and they recorded their first CD " Hips First".Almost all the songs were written by Simone. Hips toured around the country and in Austria , Switzerland and Germany.

In 1997 HIPS recorded their second album "the bigger the better"but in the meantime Hips First was released in Spain as well. In Spain the song "talk to you "became a # 1 hit at the Spanish charts! So Simone and her guys had to go to Spain….

Hips played a lot on festivals and Simone also toured in the summertime with Paulo Mendonca, a great rock singer/guitarist from Sweden.
The rest of the band also played with big dutch stars so it was almost impossible to stick them together as a group. They decided to split in the spring of 1999. Simone started to teach on the pop-department of the concervatory of Rotterdam and recorded her first solo CD "she said in 2005.
Two years ago Simone asked all the members of Hips to come together for a reunion concert .
After 10 years they played like they never had stopped!
After this concert Simone decided to write new material and with her new name Mrs.Hips she will remind us of all her experiences through all these funky years!
The first CD of Mrs.Hips "give me more" will be released in september 2010!