Background
He was born in Bergen, North Holland.
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Matheus Lau
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Besides his solo career, he was the lead singer of the Dutch band The Scene. In 1979 he founded the band The Scene with Lau as lead singer and guitarist. The band"s most well-known songs are "Blauw" and "Iedereen is van de wereld".
Lau left The Scene in 2003 and got touring with keyboardist January-Peter Bast in Dutch theaters.
In October 2006, he resumed the tour under title Tempel der liefde accompanied by January-Peter Bast and tango string quartet Pavadita. In 2007, The Scene had a reunion with Lau and three former band members.
(Jeroen Booy, Emilie Blom van Assendelft and Otto Cooymans) They started touring again, and released a new Civil Defense. In 2010, Thé Lau topped the Dutch charts with a collaboration with Dutch rapper Lange Frans, "Zing voor me". In 2000, he made his debut in literature by writing short stories De sterren van de hemel (meaning the stars of heaven).
In 2003, his writings were published in a book titled Thé Lau, de teksten.
His first novel was Hemelrijk in 2004, followed by a collection of music stories entitled In de dakgoot (meaning in the gutter). In 2007 his work has appeared in 1000 vissen, a collection of stories about the Amsterdam"s neighborhood Spaarndammerbuurt where Thé Lau had been living and working for 15 years. Lau was diagnosed with lung cancer in August 2013 and was told he could not be cured in April 2014.
He died in June 2015 in Amsterdam.
In vrijheid is a 2005 song Thé Lau wrote as a liberation song for Bevrijdingsdag (Liberation Day in the Netherlands). He performed it on May 5, 2005 and the song became very popular for the annual celebrations of the Day.
Thé Lau was part of the Dutch "Ticket Foreign Tibet" event and took part in the album release of the collective in 2008. 2003: The show.
Membership
Lau played guitar in several bands and was a member of the Dutch band Neerlands Hoop Express.
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Nationality
Netherlands