Career
He is the recipient of various 3FM awards, including the 3FM Serious Talent Award 2014. Jett Rebel has released 2 EPs. The first, Venus, was released in May 2013 on Sony Music.
Music videos were made for the songs "Do You Love Maine at All" and "Louise", these were also released as singles in May and October 2013 respectively.
The second European Parliament, Mars, was released in January 2014. Only one song, "Tonight", has been made into a single.
There"s also a music video for this song. In April 2014 a song called "On Top of the World" was released as a bonus song on the soundtrack of The Amazing Spider-Manitoba 2.
On May 9, 2014, Jett Rebel released his first studio album Venus & Mars.
lieutenant consists of his two EPs (Venus and Mars), and the songs "On Top of the World" and "#".
A second studio album Hits for Kids was released on October 31, 2014. The album consists of 14 songs, of which one, "Pineapple Morning", was released as a single with a music video. Lyric videos have been made for all 14 songs of the album.
The album is sold on Civil Defense, LP and digital download formats.
He also claims to be almost done with his third studio album. Jett Rebel also makes covers on existing songs, some of them are uploaded to the 3FM YouTube channel.
Jett Rebel grew up in Baarn. From early on he has shown an extraordinary interest in music
Before he turned ten, he was able to play drums, piano and guitar.
While he was attending the Baarnsch Lyceum, a secondary school, he stood out by winning the "Grandi Art", a school competition for music, as a popular musician for consecutive years. During that period he performed with a series of bands that gained local fame, including Bitter Lemon, Fubroz, The Zoo and Metro Mortale. After his secondary school he moved to Amsterdam to study piano and guitar at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam.
In that period he has played in popular groups, including The Souldiers and Valerius.
In September 2012, Jelte Tuinstra decided to make his own music under the name of Jett Rebel. In spring 2013 his first European Parliament was released entitled Venus, at the end of the same year the next European Parliament, Mars, was released.
The three singles that were released from these EPs were enthusiastically received and played by 3FM and other radio stations. He performed live in the television programs Toppop3, De Wereld Draait Door and Serious Request, in the supporting program of the B-52"s and was proclaimed by radio station Radio 3FM as 3FM Serious Talent.
At the start of 2014, his single Tonight became at the same radio station the 3FM Megahit.
He also wrote a bonus track for the movie the Amazing Spider-Manitoba 2. Jett Rebel writes his own music and also takes care of arrangements, production and recordings, whereby he provides the vocals and plays the instruments. When he performs live he is accompanied by a band composed of Rick van Wort (drums), Xander Vrienten (bass guitar and vocals), Amber Gomaa (keyboard and vocals), Jessica Manuputty (vocals) and Lorijn "Lexxus" von piekartz (guitar).
Jett Rebel himself sings and plays the piano and guitar.
He also performs solo, as he did at the Songbird Festival 2013 in Rotterdam. In March 2014 Jett Rebel received three nominations for the 3FM Awards and an Edison Award in the category "Best newcomer".