Education
Schooling and early career Laverman attended college prep school in Leeuwarden.
Schooling and early career Laverman attended college prep school in Leeuwarden.
She has released three albums, all of which have charted in the Netherlands, and is credited in the Dutch press with inventing the "Frisian fado."
Nynke Laverman did her internship at Tryater. During her schooling, she sang with Paul de Leeuw during a series of concerts in Ahoy Rotterdam. She played parts in music videos and acted in a television series, Toscane, on VPRO television
Laverman did an internship with a Frisian theatercompany, Tryater, and worked for them after graduation, presenting a musical television program, Number Nynke, for Omrop Fryslân, the Frisian regional television station.
In 2003, she participated in the Angela Vicario, part of the Oerol Festival on Terschelling, where she discovered her need to sing fados. On Koninginnedag 2005, the silver anniversary of Queen Beatrix, she performed for the queen in The Hague, and sang with Marco Borsato and Frans Bauer.
In 2006 she sang a Frisian/Limburgish duet on Rowwen Hèze"s album Rodus & Lucis with Jack Poels, which was released as a single. In 2007 she played in Cecilia, a production by Alex van Warmerdam"s theater company Orkater.
On the Dutch "Victory in Europe Day" in 2009 she performed at the 5 May concert on the Amstel in Amsterdam.